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Everybody Reads the Same Story Differently

Barney: Hey, The Karate Kid's a great movie. It's the story of a hopeful, young karate enthusiast whose dreams and moxie take him all the way to the All Valley Karate Championship. Of course, sadly he loses in the final round to that nerd kid. But, he learns an important lesson about gracefully accepting defeat. Lily:  Wait, when you watch The Karate Kid you actually root for that mean blonde boy? Barney: No, I root for the scrawny loser from New Jersey who barely even knows karate. (Rolls eyes.) When I watch The Karate Kid I root for the karate kid, Johnny Lawrence from the Cobra Kai dojo. Get your head out of your ass, Lily. As the...

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Celebrating 100k+ Visitors with an Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

Update: the giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! I will post the winners shortly. June 2011 was a big one for this blog. We started the month with a site re-design and I began my efforts to monetize my site. This has also been the biggest month ever in terms of traffic. Back in April, I received a little over 95,000 unique visitors and so had set a short-term goal of 100,000 visitors per month by the summer's end. Well, as of 12:00am this morning, I had received...

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