Category Archives: Jon Rossi

Banality. Conversation Without Quotes. Unexplained endings.

I’m sitting here listening to Omar Khairat, an Egyptian composer, because it’s the only lyric-less music I can think of that I have on my computer, and it’s very conducive to doing homework.  But that’s neither here nor there with … Continue reading

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Final Paper & Creative Project Proposal

As I near the close of my senior year, it’s becoming increasingly necessary for me to focus on my Honors Thesis.  By now I’ve known what I would write about for a year or so – Bruce Springsteen, but to … Continue reading

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The Fundamentalization of Pop Culture

I’d love to be able to come here and tell you guys that I loved reading Glorious Appearing – that, and that the essays read in The Fundamentalist Mindset were intriguing.  perhaps my language isn’t fair – I did enjoy … Continue reading

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Are You The Antichrist?

Find out here, with this convenient little calculator I found online!  For a brief second, I was wondering if I might be… so naturally I needed to find a calculator to tell me the numeric value of my name, in … Continue reading

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Red Assaults & Comic Gems

In a lot of ways, Watchmen was a hugely satisfying book.  Before getting to the serious writing, however, let me address the silly end of the spectrum. You see, for years in high school I (mostly) jokingly believed that every … Continue reading

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