Art Update

Be sure and check out my super-sized art update on MySpace.

Elf-Help 37

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worm

Today I drew a picture of a worm:

Elitism, Underwear, & Master Narratives in Shrek II

Can't get enough of my long-winded and pretentious articles? Hear me prattle on about the movie Shrek II and the dangers and delights of franchizes over at Anna Tambours' Can of Worms:

Have Shrek and Fiona sold themselves to the status quo in order to feature prominently on children’s underwear? The truth, I fear, may be more sinister still. The Shrek of the original "Shrek" is Socrates as characterized by Plato: he interrogates and reevaluates every convention and establishes a new and better mode of life. Shrek in "Shrek II," however, is Socrates as characterized by Nietzsche in "Twilight of the Idols": a petty man who tears down the old truth = beauty paradigm simply because he, himself, is ugly.

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Deep Space Nine is Deep!

Over at my MySpace blog I've been linking to some past articles I wrote about Deep Space Nine and how it intersects with certain political, philosophical, and literary issues. If that sort of thing interests you, check 'em out:

Deep Space Nine in the post 9/11 world
Is Sisko a Knight of Faith?
"What You Leave Behind": a heliocentric myth
Love, Klingon Style

Universe Pathways #3

Fretting about your inability to read Greek? Fret no more! The English version of Universe Pathways #3 is available now through this fine link.

Old School #1 p 24

...and he's finished.

Pencils for The Matriarch #1 are now complete. Yay!