Doomsday

Elizabeth Rosen, while analyzing Terry Gilliam’s film Twelve Monkeys, argues that “being an End-time prophet is maddening; that is, by its nature, it jeopardizes one’s sanity” (Rosen 89-90). Kushner’s Prior Walter would certainly agree. Prior is quickly convinced he is going crazy during his dealings with the Angel. The first time he mentions the voice […]

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there’s only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics. -Louis In Tony Kushner’s America, there are no angels.   The America he presents […]

The Hindu version of the Apocalypse is not very apocalyptic, in the sense that it does not involve a revelation at all. Moreover, what Hindus mean when they imagine the end of the world is an apocalypse, not the Apocalypse. Hindus of the Vedic period (about 1000 BCE) tended to believe that time is cyclical […]

I read an article in Wired magazine (issue 17.10) about a still operational Soviet nuclear launch plan that would activate even after an apocalypse.  Apparently, Wired.com doesn’t post the newest issues as they are sent to home-delivery subscribers, so I can’t put up the link.  But I will quote and then bring it in to […]

Until a few years ago I laughed at the words, “don’t drink the Kool Aid.” Although I did not understand the reference, I imagined what it could mean. In my mind I had created stories of someone slipping GHB or disgusting bodily fluids into an, otherwise, normal glass of Kool Aid. It was only after […]

As a young girl, I never wanted to go to sleep. I was convinced that, the moment I closed my eyes, my parents would have a party— one to which everyone but me would be invited. Always afraid that I would miss something, I tried my best to keep my eyes open. However, as it always does, sleep found ways of forcing itself upon me and I would be kept in the dark about the details of the night.