Thursday, September 29, 2011
Yesterday I posted a quote on my Tumblr discussing “What Would Be America’s National Theatre?” and then proceeded to say, “The Goodman Theatre is not better than Step…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:13PMSunday, September 18, 2011
For now, we are at the end of “The Films of Pixar” until I sit down and watch Cars 2 in November. (At least it will be better than Sucker Punch.) So how does Toy Story 3 hold up …
SOURCE: Fragments at 07:00PMThursday, September 15, 2011
In 2009, Pixar did something remarkable and released a film that would have almost no merchandising and licensing potential, but would cause numerous adults throughout the country to bawl du…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:35PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
What if our waste and perpetual need of material goods caused us to leave earth because of how uninhabitable it had become? How would we clean up Earth? Who would be left behind to inhabit o…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:32PMMonday, September 5, 2011
John Lasseter’s film Cars is a love letter to the automobile, Route 66, and auto racing, primarily NASCAR racing. However, Cars is not that beautiful of a love letter. Between the drag…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:45PMThursday, September 1, 2011
Towards the end of The Incredibles, a little boy on a bike proclaims, “That was totally wicked!” referring to a big battle he’s just witnessed between the villain and the s…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:38AMWednesday, August 31, 2011
The monster in the closet is a perpetual tormenter of the sleep of little children. What if the monsters were actually real? Pixar’s third film, Monsters, Inc., gives us a world inhabi…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:03AMFriday, August 26, 2011
These posts were supposed to be in chronological order after I wrote about Ratatouille, but due to an error with Netflix, I’m writing about Finding Nemo before Monsters, Inc.. Andrew S…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:52AMTuesday, August 23, 2011
Toy Story created history by becoming the first film completely done with computer generated images and featured a cheerful, heartwarming story with terrific lines. While Toy Story 2 is an i…
SOURCE: Fragments at 05:43PMThursday, August 18, 2011
Bug is a klutz. Bug screws up and is sent on a perceived suicide mission to find bugs to help colony defend themselves agains evil grasshoppers. Bug finds what he thinks are warriors. Bug re…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:09PMFriday, August 12, 2011
The bond between a child and their favorite toy and what happens when the humans aren’t near their toys is what propels Pixar’s first animated feature-film, Toy Story. The 1995 f…
SOURCE: Fragments at 05:36PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
For the past year, I’ve been doing a 365 project of pictures, which required me to take a picture everyday for a year. Or at least try to take a picture for everyday of the year, altho…
SOURCE: Fragments at 07:53PMSunday, August 7, 2011
I sat down to watch Burlesque expecting the worst based off of the reviews I had read and that it had a lower star rating on Netflix than Sucker Punch, which is probably one of the worst mov…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:21AMSaturday, August 6, 2011
Today I needed something that wasn’t depressing to write about and since trying to make sense of Sucker Punch was something too depressing to even think about, I decided that I’m…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:40AMThursday, July 28, 2011
Currently I’m busy with work and writing for Gapers Block, which means that I don’t have much time or ideas for long posts for here. Sometimes, I do need a great motivation to co…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:52PMMonday, July 25, 2011
On Thursday I had spent half of my day at work, the other half sitting in my comfy chair from IKEA that’s older than me, working on a post for Gapers Block, where I’m currently w…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:14AMFriday, July 8, 2011
While the situation in Boystown keeps getting a bit crazier and more depressing, Milwaukee experienced mob violence in the Riverwest neighborhood on Monday evening. In the incidents, about 2…
SOURCE: Fragments at 09:12PMTuesday, July 5, 2011
There have recently been stabbings and attacks in the trendy Boystown area of Lakeview, which is home to several gay bars and the annual Pride Festival and Pride Parade. As a result of these…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:15AMThursday, June 23, 2011
For at least three years, it has been discussed as to whether or not bloggers were making theater critics, and critic in general, obsolete. This is a topic that won’t die, like whether…
SOURCE: Fragments at 06:11PMSunday, June 19, 2011
This past week, the Chicago Tribune unveiled a redesigned version with more content. According to Robert Feder’s blog, the subscribers will be charged more, but it currently doesn̵…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:23PMFriday, May 27, 2011
As America continues through a recession and arts funding is continually slashed from public schools, questions linger in the heads of artists, primarily how to introduce children to theater…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:39AMFriday, May 6, 2011
Back in March, Theatre Cedar Rapids announced their 2011-12 season, but listed one of the plays as “TBA.” Judging from the press release, they have announced the play that was pr…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:15AMThursday, April 7, 2011
Last January, I was walking around Hyde Park with someone I knew after seeing The Year of Magical Thinking at Court Theatre and we somehow got on the topic of the Bechdel Test. The Bechdel T…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:06AMFriday, March 4, 2011
I was recently reading a Facebook status that a friend of mine in Cedar Falls posted about the low attendance at a production of The Sunshine Boys he just directed. The production was at Ced…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:56AMMonday, February 28, 2011
More than a month ago, I was going out to a restaurant to watch the Super Bowl because I don’t have cable in my apartment. This place was recommended by a friend of mine and since I…
SOURCE: Fragments at 02:11AMWednesday, February 9, 2011
Back in early November, I had picked up some Toaster Strudels at the grocery store. I thought that they would be great to eat and I hadn’t had any in a while. The morning after I picke…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:03PM 
