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Welcome to What’s the Buzz, 25YL’s new feature where members of our staff will be providing you with recommendations on a weekly basis. In our internet age, there is so much out there to think about watching, reading, listening to, etc., that it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, filter out …
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Erect and sublime, for one moment of time, In the next, that wild figure they saw (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm, While they waited and listened in awe. "It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears, And seemed almost too good to be true. Then followed …
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Bandersnatch is an impressive piece of work. As a child, I loved to read Choose Your Own Adventure books. I can’t recall any particular titles I enjoyed, and certainly none of them were as elaborate as the titular book Stefan sets out to base a video game on; they were rather all thin little books …
Welcome all! So it's not quite over yet but 2018 is almost at an end. All of us here at 25YL would like to thank all our readers for all the support you have given us over the last 20 months. As we move closer to our second birthday, we're planning some big changes! So …
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites---whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!---in bite-sized articles perfect …
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If you're anything like me, the holidays are stressful. There's lots to do and not a lot of time to do it. And then there's the whole gift-giving part. Sometimes you just don't know what to get. Here at 25YL, we've compiled a list of some fun gifts to give the TV fan in your …
Well, it happened. Twin Peaks: The Return was completely shut out. We were all clinging to the hope that some voters had enough sense to realize that, at the very least, David Lynch should win for directing for "Part 8," but no. So, I present with very little enthusiasm—about as much as I could muster …
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Being-towards-death is the anticipation of a potentiality-for-Being of that entity whose kind of Being is anticipation itself. In the anticipatory revealing of this potentiality-for-Being, Dasein discloses itself to itself as regards its uttermost possibility. But to project itself on its ownmost potentiality-for-Being means to be able to understand itself in the Being of the entity …
There is a difference between appreciating a work of art and liking it. It's a hard one for many of us; made harder still by a cultural tendency to reduce all value judgments to expressions of preference, or opinion. De gustibus non est disputandum but not everything is merely a matter of personal taste. I recall, however …
This is not science fiction. Given that Black Mirror likes to at times play with ideas that are technically possible but haven't happened, it should perhaps come as no surprise that in at least this one instance, reality has outstripped it. Watching "The Waldo Moment" in 2018 feels quite a bit different from the experience …