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Positive Cynicism – ‘Tis the season to piss me off

Aaron R. Davis I hate the winter. I hate the snow. I hate the holidays. So, of course, into this perfect storm of annoyed dissatisfaction must come news stories that, in the end, aren’t really worth the space I’m about to devote to talking about how they’re not …

Positive Cynicism – What I’m thankful for

Aaron R. Davis I don’t really do the holidays. It’s not that I’m some kind of lone wolf, proud of my isolation from family and friends as they go about the greeting card industry-mandated motions and expend the energy and tension necessary to have some vaguely unsatisfying holiday-like …

Positive Cynicism – Spoiler alerts and Internet crybabies

Aaron R. Davis I was a bit miffed this week by an article on /Film entitled Spoiler Alert: The Responsibility of Online Writers in a Hulu/DVR World. In the post, writer David Chen took online critic Jace Lacob of Televisionary to task over his response to an incident …

Positive Cynicism – Maybe Hollywood just hates us

Aaron R. Davis I don’t like it when people see a bunch of potentially awful movies in production and say “Oh, Hollywood is finally out of ideas,” as if Hollywood has ever been a place of stunning originality and remakes are a recent phenomena. But even I have …