These thoughts are overwhelmingly positive. I lurve The Purge, by which I mean the sequels to the original, deeply lackluster purge movie. Sorry, Cersei Lannister, but it ain’t your finest hour. Please enjoy this itemized list of things I unabashedly adore about The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Night. Firstly, I like broody, dark-haired men […]
Tristan Durst
Tristan vs. Yoga
One Saturday last spring I got up early to join my friends for a yoga lesson at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This is a totally lovely museum, and nothing that transpired was in any way the museum’s fault. The night before yoga, I’d attended a peer workshop where I hadn’t been assertive enough and my […]
Spite Vomit
Once, while I was living in Korea, I thought I was going to die. Okay, that’s not true. Several times while I was living in Korea I thought I was going to die. On two separate occasions the public transit I was riding crashed. The air raid sirens went off every other day the summer […]
Knowing You’re the Villain
I had no plans for my second Lunar New Year break in South Korea, content to spend my three-week break from teaching sleeping until five. I never knew if it was five in the morning or five in the afternoon, since the January sky was dark for both. This was in humanity’s pre-smart phone days, […]
