“I Simply Must Get Rid of Him” Peep Show and the Philosophy of Friendship By Tiddy Smith Peep Show follows the lives of flatmates, Mark and Jeremy, the hopeless and socially bumbling “El Dude Brothers”. Each man is exceptionally dysfunctional in his own way: Mark is a hopeless pessimist, plagued by self-doubt and incapable…
Discord in the Doghouse My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic By Andrea Zanin It’s true, Equestria is immersed in pimped-up ponies singing, sauntering, and socializing in forests wrought with candy canes and heart-shaped confetti (as such) but before you book your summer vacation, dip in to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and you’ll soon…
Guardians of the Galaxy and Philosophy “We are Groot! Jeffery L. Nicholas Guardians of the Galaxy! What a film. Packed with action, story, special effects, humor, and a walking, talking tree. Much press release and on-line babble treated GotG as another super-hero movie, but I think the movie makes clear that, it’s, not a…
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 