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The Road by Cormac McCarthy:
"If he is not the word of God, God never spoke." It's a line spoken by The Man, unnamed, early on in the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It's this line, elegiac and moving, infused with despair and hope, that informs you, you're not reading something you'll easily forget.
By Adam Diehl13 days ago in Critique
Diaries to Nietzsche
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH2 months ago in Critique
Who Is Clavicular? The Looksmaxxing Streamer Who Ran Over A Stalker In His Cybertruck
What is so damaging to this current culture is the ant-intellectualism which pervades nearly every element of it. Clavicular, real name, Braden Peters equivocates physical form with getting women, making money, and overall being a strong “man.”
By Skyler Saunders3 months ago in Critique
Scrooge has entered the building!
From the swirling depths of inner turmoil, I grace you with a moment of much-needed sarcasm... I was gifted/tempted with the task of sharing unbiased opinions for a torrent of uplifting pieces of written art that have found their way to my unapproving eyes.
By Lamar Wiggins4 months ago in Critique
Taking a Different Approach on Birthdays
Hello November! It's my birthday month, meaning that I'm a Scorpio, if you're into that sort of thing. One of the best traits about my zodiac sign is that I'm competitive and want to succeed in life. I love celebrating my birthday, which happens to be on November 13. In case you're curious how old I'll be. I'll be turning 38 years old. If you look at my profile picture on here, you must be thinking that I don't look my age and you're right. I've been mistaken for a high school student and a college student. I'm fine with that and looking youthful works to my advantage. You've heard the saying, "Black don't crack." It's another way of saying that black people don't show any signs of aging. As I near 40, I've since outgrown birthday parties. The last time I had a birthday party was at home after school and 14. Nearly 25 years later, someone throwing me a party, while the gesture is admirable and with good intent, I don't feel the need to dress up and attend my own party thrown by someone else. I turned 18 in 2005 and my friend at the time took me out to miniature golf, then had my birthday dinner at Olive Garden. Besides, who doesn't love their endless breadsticks? The staff surprised me with a chocolate cake. After that, my friend and I went to Best Buy, and I chose my first country CD. That album was Toby Keith's Honkytonk University. I couldn't wait to go home and listen to it. I wore that CD out on a daily basis, because no songs from that album were skippable. It was so good and had since fallen in love with country music. Unfortunately, I ended my friendship with my long-time friend and classmate in 2021 after nearly two decades, due to his anti-gay views. I came out to him in the summer of 2012, several months after I came out of the closet. We're no longer friends, but that was one of the best birthday memories I've ever had.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 5 months ago in Critique
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When Your Voice Gets Mistaken for a Machine
A strange kind of violence happens when an AI detector looks at a piece of writing and decides the writer didn’t write it. The accusation doesn’t come from a person who misread your tone or misunderstood your intent. It comes from a machine that never learned what a human voice feels like. The machine doesn’t hesitate. It doesn’t doubt. It simply stamps your work with a label that says not yours and moves on. You’re left standing there, trying to defend something you created with your own hands.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout 3 hours ago in Critique
How Universities Are Quietly Killing Black Student Life Without Saying DEI
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a choke hold which throttles the best minds on university campuses. It doesn’t say you’ve earned it based on merit alone but through hair texture, skin color, eye color, or other nonessentials.
By Skyler Saundersabout 21 hours ago in Critique
SPACE IS FAKE? Internet Swears NASA Is Faking Space Missions After "No Shadow" Toy Glitch And Rocket Speed Comparison Goes Viral
People will claim with all of their being that among other absurdities, a man rose from the dead and ascended into a fantasy land. But science and rational calculations are always questioned without regard.
By Skyler Saundersabout 22 hours ago in Critique
I Know Exactly How You Die Review: A Great Idea Brought to Life
I Know Exactly How You Die is directed by Alexandra Speith, written by Mike Corey, and stars Stephanie Hogan, Katie Wieland, and Rushabh Patel. This horror film has been available on Prime Video since April 7.
By Ninfa Galeanoa day ago in Critique
Halle Bailey calls out Hollywood’s ‘unfair’ standards for Black films: ‘It shouldn’t be like that’
Hollywood burn, burn Hollywood has been an anthem for those in the industry and amongst audiences alike for decades. Halle Bailey is on the forefront in making history with a rom-com You, Me & Tuscany. This is a film produced, written, and directed by blacks. It will serve as a bellwether for future projects. If it succeeds, more black stories with original plots and storylines will be brought to the attention of gatekeepers.
By Skyler Saunders2 days ago in Critique
The Addams Family - TV Series
As a kid, The Addams Family was a favourite of mine, not as obvious as The Munsters but delightfully subversive. As an adult I bought the DVD and was not impressed with the picture quality, but five minutes into the first episode that didn't matter. Astin, Jones & Co Perfection.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 days ago in Critique
Living Scripts: When Cinema Becomes Therapy...
Cinema has always functioned as a mirror, but in certain films it becomes something far more unsettling: a stage where life is not merely reflected but reconstructed, rehearsed, and, in some cases, corrected. Joachim Trier’s *Sentimental Value* (2025) and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s *The Truth* (2019) belong to this rare category. Both films explore the same disturbing possibility—that art is not only an expression of life, but a substitute for it. More precisely, they reveal how artists, unable to communicate directly with those closest to them, begin to stage their own lives as a form of apology. In doing so, they transform cinema into a form of psychodrama, where the past is reenacted in the hope that it might finally be understood.
By Peter Ayolov3 days ago in Critique
Delete all my music’: Kehlani makes it clear ICE agents aren’t welcome in her fanbase
Dear Kehlani, Hey, beautiful. You’ve got a point. F*ck ICE. That whole organization performed some of the most heinous acts against American citizens and those yearning for citizenship. What you have stood on is your word to properly address the ugliness of ICE.
By Skyler Saunders3 days ago in Critique
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