by Chisnell | 9 September 2026 | Culture Criticism, Essay
One might argue that Bambi is a fictional character and 50 Cent is real. Given. Yet we must not forget that it is Curtis Jackson who is as real as Bambi author Felix Salten. 50 Cent is Jackson’s fiction as Bambi is Salten’s.
by Chisnell | 2 September 2026 | Culture Criticism, Essay
“I guess I’ve always felt that an abundant show of strength is too often a narcissistic mask for our insecurities. Behind every Forest Prince is a lonely and helpless fawn. That night in 1968 I didn’t need Bambi to tell me that I was afraid of fire, …”
by Chisnell | 14 October 2024 | Culture Criticism, Daemon Maps, Education, Essay, Philosophy
“All I need to know is if that low pressure system might create a tornado; stop telling me about the number of grandmothers per hectare!”
by Chisnell | 5 May 2024 | Culture Criticism, Daemon Maps, Education, Essay, Philosophy
Did they, in some coffee klatch somewhere, meet before marking this pathway to savings, to make a small quiet bet against themselves? Their kitchens were not my kitchens, their maps were not my reality, and they’d be damned if some commenters bombed their social media accounts.
by Chisnell | 9 January 2024 | Culture Criticism, Education, Essay, Literary Criticism
“One issue with the defense of Twain’s original text is the claim that such an historical center exists and that such grounds are worth preserving.”
by Chisnell | 29 September 2022 | A-Social, Culture Criticism, Essay
After all, why would I risk staining that beauty with a coffee ring? Why place stress upon that carefully sewn binding? If I wanted to actually read the book, well, I have a chewed and annotation-scarred used paperback of it.
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