Photo: Nintendo Switch Online: Pros, Cons, and Unknows by BagoGames sourced from flickr.com is licensed under cc by 2.0 by Alice McIntyre I, like many other people, bought a Nintendo Switch towards the start of this pandemic. I literally haven’t spent more than an hour on any game aside from […]
Spoiler Warning: Napoleon Dynamite’s Faded Jeans and Faded Dreams
Photo: Jon Heder, right, and Efren Ramirez appear in a scene from the 2004 movie “Napoleon Dynamite.” by Alice McIntyre Napoleon Dynamite (2004) is one of my favorite movies. The film, directed by Jared Hess and starring Jon Heder, is the dictionary definition of the American high school comedy. Our […]
Hey There! with @HeyMariah: 10 Ways to Be an Online Student During a Global Pandemic
With everything that is going on, I wanted to use my column to hopefully be helpful. Here are my top 10 ways to be a student online during a global pandemic. 1. Shift your mindset. Instead of thinking that you’re “stuck at home,” remind yourself that you’re “safe at home.” […]
Spoiler Warning: Star Wars Never Existed and Never Will Again
Photo: Wikimedia user KAMIKAZON. Original logo by Suzy Rice. by Alice McIntyre When one thinks of Star Wars, the mind perhaps wanders to the realm of lightsabers and pioneering special effects, to action figures and Lego sets, or to epic battles acted out on a playground hillside, cut short by a ringing bell. Mine flashes back to my childhood […]
Hey There! with @HeyMariah: Why Do I Keep Getting the World’s Shittiest Teachers?
I have gone to two different colleges: the University of Hawai’i Maui College and The Evergreen State College. I am about to receive my bachelor’s degree and I have had over 30 professors. They have all been total crap except for two. I’m told there are good teachers out there, […]
Hey There! with @HeyMariah: Olympia Staycation Guide
With spring break right around the corner, I thought I’d take time this week to create a staycation guide for our great city. We’ll start on the West Side of Oly, head downtown, make our way out of a waterfall, stop by the beach, and end up back on the […]
Spoiler Warning: Alien, Authoritarianism, and Fear of the Unknown
By Alice McIntyre Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979) is widely regarded as one of the best films of all time, and deservedly so. It tells the story of the commercial starship Nostromo and its crew, who intercept a distress signal during their return to earth and subsequently deal with an […]
Hey There! with @HeyMariah: Valentine’s Day Edition
Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate love in all of its forms. This Valentine’s Day, the most important person for you to love is yourself. Loving yourself means having grace for yourself. It means not beating yourself up with negative self-talk every time you do something you consider a […]
Spoiler Warning: How Uncut Gems Wins
Photo: Adam-Sandler by CONNOR VICK is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Alice McIntyre Uncut Gems (2019) is a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long heart attack. And I love it. It seems highly unnatural to say that about a film starring Adam Sandler. Stranger still is the fact that Uncut Gems, in marked contrast to Sandler’s myriad rom-com roles of days past, is a […]
Spoiler Warning: The Room is a Hetero Nightmare
Photo: “Tommy-Wiseau-2” by Tommy Wiseau is a public domain photograph By Alice McIntyre “I did not hit her! I did not! Oh, hi Mark.” This is one of many strange lines of dialogue found in Tommy Wiseau’s oddball cult classic The Room, recently screened at the Capitol Theater by the Olympia Film […]