Monthly Archives: June 2012

Paul Krugman VS Estonia Part 3

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Thomas Mets

A few days ago, I posted about Estonian President Toomas Ilves’s response to a Paul Krugman blog entry. That was followed by an analysis of the commentary on the subject. Since then, Paul Krugman has made several posts for his blog about … Continue reading →

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Comics and Inaccessibility

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Thomas Mets

Tim Marchman, best known as a sports writer for the mostly defunct New York Sun, trashed the modern comics industry in what was supposed to be a Wall Street Journal review of the book Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of … Continue reading →

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Estonia VS Paul Krugman Part 2

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Thomas Mets

Yesterday, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves got into a twitter war with Paul Krugman. I included as many relevant links as I could find, to preserve it all for posterity’s sake, and for less-savvy relatives and Estonian-American family friends. Now there’s … Continue reading →

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Estonia VS Paul Krugman

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Thomas Mets

My family’s from Estonia, so I’m obligated to pay attention to any news story about this nation with the fraction of the population of New York City. A much circulated piece about Estonia’s financial success in the wake of the global … Continue reading →

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Three-Act Structure 2.4: The Moment of Defeat

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Thomas Mets

The Act Two turning point is what Aristotle described in On Poetics as the peripety, the moment when the hero learns how bad things truly are. Their resolve is truly tested, and usually found wanting. It is when Oedipus realizes that he … Continue reading →

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If Days of Future Past is the next X-Men movie…

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Thomas Mets

The Days of Future Past is probably the second most famous story from the X-Men comics, right behind the Dark Phoenix saga. It was reported today that Fox went to the MPAA Title Registration Bureau to keep anyone else from using … Continue reading →

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The Inevitable Planet of the Apes Remake

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Thomas Mets

The Rise of Planet of the Apes worked pretty well as a prequel to the original Planet of the Apes (if you ignore the sequels which don’t appear on lists of the best science fiction films), and as the start of … Continue reading →

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