Tag Archives: Popular Culture

The Inevitable Slip-Up (The Didactic Express: Day 9)

Posted on September 21, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I honestly don’t know how people like Batman and Spider-Man can do it; I begin to question whether it is even possible to get away with a secret identity. Take myself, for example. I thought that I was being so … Continue reading →

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The Doctor to the Rescue?

Posted on September 16, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

It will likely come as little surprise to any of my regular readers that I am a great fan of the Doctor Who franchise (I watched the old Tom Baker episodes in reruns when I was a child; I recall being … Continue reading →

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The Didactic Express

Posted on September 13, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

If there’s one thing that I truly hate about children’s television programs (North American ones in particular) it is this: the bizarre need to shoehorn a moral lesson for the child to learn into every episode. Anyone who grew-up in … Continue reading →

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Of Nightmares

Posted on July 3, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the TV series Community (mainly because I think the principle character, Jeff Winger, is an insufferable, unsympathetic asshole and I just wish that someone would punch him every time he speaks) but one … Continue reading →

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Do the Dew

Posted on March 24, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

When I was about twelve or thirteen years old, I recall hearing a rumour circulating around my school that the soft drink Mountain Dew reduced the volume of the testicles of males who consumed it. More sensational versions of this … Continue reading →

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Transsexuality in Pop-Culture: A Hot Tr***y Mess

Posted on March 4, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Inspired by this post by Dil Wickremasinghe, I thought I would write a bit about depictions of the transsexuality in the media. I don’t live in Ireland, so I’ve not seen the advertisement in question. However, as a transwoman, I … Continue reading →

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Something Mystifying

Posted on January 8, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Upon lining-up to buy my groceries, I can always expect to see row after row of dubious publications printed on low-quality paper, bedecked with photographs of orange-complexioned Humanoid things in various states of states of anguish with salacious headlines narrating … Continue reading →

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Concerning My Asexuality…

Posted on January 6, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

This morning, I sat down with the intention of finishing my background summary; after about an hour and a half or so of typing, I decided I would swing–briefly–by the blog in order to see how things were going. I … Continue reading →

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A Modern Invocation

Posted on December 27, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

(This one is inspired by a piece that an old friend/deranged, pathologically lying narcissist once wrote. It was an invocation in the classical style, containing the usual literary references to Greek mythology, Tristan and Isolde, and the like. I got … Continue reading →

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