Author: Mark Egge

Critical Mass

nyYAAAAAAaar! … Or, I mean, how else does one say, “the semester’s over. For better, and for worse, the semester’s over.” How else does one say, “why didn’t I study those extra three hours? How does McCarty justify such draconian and capricious paper grades?” … does one say, “I’ve been a T.A., films chair, and […]

No Sleep For Young Audiences…

I can’t stop thinking about No Country For Old Men. I need to see it again. My consistent criticism of Westerns–regardless of their “greatness”–is their abject failure to conjure a sense of the “plains”, of the “west” … that sense of a foreboding eternity … of beautiful and rollings hills covered with sage and grasses […]

the end of the snowball…

It seems I survived the week. Whoo! Actually, in terms of academics, this was a rather uninteresting dead week. That’s fortunate, though. The “big” Procrastinator meeting happened Friday morning. I haven’t had a night where I was unable to sleep … for years. Literally. I think State Mock Trial, junior year, was probably the last […]

with a little more time, and a 6-leaf clover…

Hey. Wait. What happened? How is it … 1:30 am? Wasn’t it just 9:00 a few minutes ago? Herbert Hoover once wrote, “Bessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.“ Yaar! This theater is eating my life. Eating it whole and raw. My grades this semester are going to suffer, (suffer, suffering, […]