If you’re of a certain age, 1993’s Jurassic Park is one of your favorite movies. It makes sense, considering it’s made by Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest filmmakers to ever live. It’s got groundbreaking special effects that fuse CGI, puppetry, and mechanical creatures. Perhaps most importantly, it’s got dinosaurs. Just a metric ass ton of […]

We can agree that the primary purpose of art is to elicit an emotional response, right? The way I understand it is, an artist creates their piece. That piece could be sculpture, painting, music, literature, film, or so much more. During the act of creation, they have an eye toward the hoped-for emotional response. A […]

I’m writing this on Saturday, March 24. A day earlier, President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending package into law. He almost didn’t sign it, and as usual, a bunch of drama started with a tweet. After serious negotiations between Republicans and Democrats to avoid the third government shutdown this year, an omnibus spending […]