It feels odd to write a pop-culture focused blog right now, especially with the everything going on these days. Writing an essay about a movie or video game feels so futile when I’d much rather rail against an illegitimate court or decry ineffectual politicians doing nothing to stop gun violence. With it is that desires… Continue reading Finding Joy
Author: Joshua Tong
Published!
Hey all, I got a short story published. Check it out, and four other great stories, right here at Khoreo Mag. Enjoy! Cheers,
The Weight of Mythology
It took a while, but the new season of Stranger Things is out, or at least the first half of it. It’s pretty good, though the longer episode lengths (around 70 minutes a pop) plus the geographically scattered characters does mean the plot plods in places, but when it gets going it’s still a lot… Continue reading The Weight of Mythology
Behind The Curtain
I’ve always enjoyed looking behind the scenes. And I do mean always; I remember as a younger kid loving seeing how movies are made or devouring those books that explain how, like, paper is made and television works. It all seems just so cool. I knew someone once who said she grew to not like… Continue reading Behind The Curtain
Catharsis and Kenobi
So, the Disney+ series about Obi-Wan Kenobi (titled, uh, Obi-Wan Kenobi) came out on Friday and it is a fantastic exercise in catharsis. And I want to talk about that, because after this week I needed some damn catharsis. Catharsis, as Aristotle defined it in his Poetics way back when, is a purging of emotions.… Continue reading Catharsis and Kenobi
Chip & Dale & Nic(k)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a movie where Nick Cage (played by Nic Cage) finds himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy. Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a movie where Chip and Dale (the stars of the cartoon Rescue Rangers) find themselves embroiled in a criminal conspiracy. Both of these movies are pretty… Continue reading Chip & Dale & Nic(k)
Lightness
There’s a lot of depressing crap going on in the world right now. A lot of stuff happening that weighs heavy on me and so when it’s time to sit down and write this blogpost it feels hard to ignore it. But I also know that, at a certain point, there comes a time to… Continue reading Lightness
Big Ol’ Trees
Greetings from Sequoia National Forest! I’m writing this from a cabin a few miles outside the park’s boundary, having just hiked through that forest and visited a brewery (as is my post-hike tradition). Because, despite having cultivated a scholarly persona through this blog, I am, in fact, a fan of hikes and such. And not… Continue reading Big Ol’ Trees
Farfetch’d Language
There is a Pokémon named Farfetch’d. It’s not one of the really cool ones either, Farfetch’d is literally a duck holding a leek. Behold, the legendary creativity of Generation I. Bulbapedia tells me that the name is a play on the Japanese idiom it’s based on, about a duck with a spring onion being a… Continue reading Farfetch’d Language
Thors
I’m quite curious about Thor: Love and Thunder, the next Thor movie from Taika Waititi ('curious,' by the way, is how you say 'excited' while still sounding intellectual). The curiosity — and despite what the parentheses may have suggested, there is actual curiosity — stems in part from the Thor in question not being the… Continue reading Thors
Essays, Not Rants! 