A Blog on the Reading, Writing, and Theory of Movies, Television, and Social Media. Reflections on Genre and the Cinematic Eighteenth Century. A few months ago, my colleague Srividhya Swaminathan and I published a collection of essays that we co-edited together entitled. Essays by Dorothée Polanz and Elizabeth Kraft give a .

In 2009 I left home for the first time, embarking on what to many would be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with my friend Shawn. But it sparked in me what will hopefully be a lifelong love of travel and exploration. This blog is a record of that adventure, its posts having been written in 2009 and edited for clarity in 2012. All these posts once belonged to my regular blog but got lost among mundane, daily life type posts, so I decided to resurrect them all here. 8211; A hockey game in Prague.