Author: chelsea.withington

I didn’t think it would ever stop raining. I woke up and dressed for cold, and was met by drizzle instead. I am of the belief that drizzling is almost a thousand times worse than actual rainfall, because it creeps in, makes you all wet and cold, but is not brave enough to be outright.… Continue reading oskar’s been inside my head.

“Many survivors seem to be able to transcend their trauma temporarily and harness their pain in acts of sublimated creation; for example, the writers and Holocaust survivors Jersy Kosinski and Primo Levi seem to have done this, only to succumb to the despair of their memories in the end.”  Black Hole of Trauma This excerpt… Continue reading Road Trauma

“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.” p 21 He sits up violently, breathing hard.  Without thinking about it he reaches for the boy. He pleads… Continue reading screenplay fun: The Road

I have titled my post as such partly because I think I am terribly clever, but mostly because I think the children in White Noise are rather ironic. Children in novels usually represent innocence and pure unadulterated knowledge, but none of the children in White Noise actually behave as children. It could be that the… Continue reading The ‘age of innocence’ in White Noise

Friday night if you went to the Women’s Volleyball game, you could get a free Chipotle burrito. We decided to show up 45 minutes early to guaruntee ourselves a free dinner, which occured to the rest of the similarly informed student body as well. Sitting in the stands waiting for the game to start, the… Continue reading dull roars

Before: Single white male looking for someone to help continue the legacy. Have just made sugnificant scientific discovery. Am horrendously wealthy, looking for someone to dote on and share my new fame with. After: Single white male with no marketable skills looking to find a partner to make it through this mess together. Good looking… Continue reading Classifieds: Tim Hamner

So I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the 2012 trailer we watched in class, and how it embodied what I pictured Hammerfall to look and feel like. I know that thus far we have not encountered the actual disaster, but I can’t stop thinking about “the end…is just the beginning”…how would we as… Continue reading 2012…