So, for those who are unaware, I moved back to the motherland of Spain in July of 2021 to get my Master’s Degree in Advanced English Studies and their Applications in Literature/Culture. It’s a degree that’s juggling literary and film criticism, philology, writing, cultural studies, and then some. My thesis…

No country on Earth is as enveloped in the creation and consumption of media as the United States. It is the world leader in television consumption, with the average American watching over 3 hours of television a day, not including other devices. Before the streaming era came in full force…

Folks, for the last few ̶d̶a̶y̶s̶, ̶w̶e̶e̶k̶s̶, ̶m̶o̶n̶t̶h̶s̶, years (?), I have been job hunting, and it has probably been the most harrowing experience of my life, and that’s saying something. I almost lost an eye ball while climbing a tree as a child. I have been tear gassed before…

Congrats, worst article I've read on Medium. 1) The infrastructure in those places was not sustainable in many cases, used forced/slave labor, kicked out the native residents, or destroyed the environment. 2) Hilarious, because this goes AGAINST your point! That means it was bad for the colonizers too! I'm also…

I will be discussing a nostalgic game of my childhood, Zoo Tycoon, developed by the small gaming company, Blue Fang Games. This time around, I will be discussing more in length my personal experience and the gameplay. I will essentially be going back to it and reviewing the good and…

The Star Wars franchise is comprised of approximately 4.5 good movies. The original trilogy, The Last Jedi, and about half of Revenge of the Sith. That’s it, the rest is either good stories with goofy execution, bad stories with great execution, or godawful fan service. And now, hit and miss…

Hi readers, A bit of a different animal I’ll be publishing today. I recently did a lecture at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. I’ve done a few, but this is the first time I actually recorded what I said and decided to put it on my Medium. I’ll attach…

In a moment that usurped the cringe-inducing Moonlight/La La Land mix-up, the tone-deaf and self-indulgent George Clooney speech, and even the butchering of Idina Menzel’s name by John Travola, Will Smith went ahead and slapped Chris Rock in the face in front of millions of viewers. …

I was writing an article about the war in Ukraine, and instead, I’ve scrapped it for this article. Well, “scrapped” is a generous word, considering I only came up with a witty headline: