Happy National Video Games Day! One of my earliest memories was being six years old, and getting a Gameboy on Christmas morning in the early 90s, I would spend HOURS playing and failing at games like The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Super Mario Land, Frogger, Paperboy, and eventually Pokémon Red Version. I’m proud to […]
You might think I’m biased towards Shakespeare because I’m a former English major, but I’ll tell you a secret: I was not a fan when I was in high school. In fact, I dreaded reading his works, mainly because they were blown over with little care given to biographical context, honoring students’ individual interpretations, or […]
By Teen Underground Blogger Liza Computers are all around us– from phones to tablets to laptops. Many novels, more notably Feed by M. T. Anderson and Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini, predicted computers to be small enough to become a part of someone’s body and control their brain. Since computers are so prevalent in […]
We all have that one movie that defines our childhood and solidifies the epicenter of your humor. For me, that movie is Dumb and Dumber, which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. This film is written, directed, and produced by the Farrelly brothers and starring my OG crush Jim Carrey and the brilliant Jeff […]
