EXPeriencing Stories

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• EXPeriencing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Review Pt. 1)

  

  Cover image via. I’m a privileged member of the Harry Potter generation. I grew up with Harry and have been reading J.K. Rowling’s books for more than 15 years. When I discovered Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was being released last weekend, I had two thoughts: 1.) How did I not know this was coming…

  August 4, 2016

• Re-EXPeriencing My Love of [All] Movies

  

  Cover image via. Two weeks ago the Republican National Convention ended, and I needed a distraction from reality. After looking through my collection of movies I’ve seen a million times, I turned on Netflix to find something else. Criminal Minds didn’t seem appealing; neither did Fixer Upper. So I turned to the movie section and found that…

  July 31, 2016

• EXPeriencing the 2016 Tony Awards

  

  Cover image via. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, June 12, 49 people were shot dead and 53 were wounded at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Eighteen hours later, the 70th Annual Tony Awards were held at the Beacon Theater in New York City. On a day where the LGBTQ community—and the United States—was devastated by…

  June 14, 2016

• EXPeriencing Overwatch (and Why It’s Better than Team Fortress 2)

  

  Last year I wrote about watching the amazing cinematic trailer for Overwatch. I also noted that while it was an awesome trailer, it looked like a Team Fortress 2 ripoff. I am here to report that after playing Overwatch in its first week, it may have similar elements to TF2, but it’s not a ripoff. In fact, I am having…

  May 30, 2016

• EXPeriencing the Rock Clock

  

  I suffer from depression, which, among other side effects, makes it hard for me to get up in the mornings or sit down and write for myself (hence why I haven’t written a blog post in three months). I take generic Prozac to help fight my depression, but even with medication it can still be hard…

  May 15, 2016

• EXPeriencing ‘Arrow’

  

  Cover image via. I probably never would have started watching Arrow without having become addicted to The Flash first. Considering The Flash is a spin-off of Arrow, and considering The Flash is so well-written and engrossing, it stands to reason that Arrow should be about as good, too, right? I would say yes, but it’s a slower build up than The Flash. When Arrow started,…

  February 17, 2016

• EXPeriencing ‘The Flash’: Season One

  

  Cover photo via MoviePilot. I typically think of myself as a Marvel Universe fan. I immersed myself in Marvel in the early 2000s when I saw X-Men and Spider-Man in theaters. They were fun, had intriguing characters, and everyone was full of powers that I craved as a teenager. (To the point that I was writing…

  January 30, 2016

• EXPeriencing Fox’s Monday Lineup (And Saying Goodbye to ‘The Bachelor’)

  

  Cover image via Know Your Meme. I had every intention of bringing my laptop home from work this evening so I could live tweet the second half of The Bachelor and then write a blog post about what I thought of the show four weeks in. That plan was derailed when I kept my TV on…

  January 25, 2016

• Completing My Harry Potter Re-Read

  

  Cover image via The Fantasy Forum. When I began my Harry Potter re-read in late September last year, I was convinced it would only take me seven weeks to read the whole series. One book a week. I got that, easy. Wrong. My Harry Potter re-read took me three and half months, from the end of…

  January 19, 2016

• Falling Woefully Short on My 2015 Goodreads Reading Challenge

  

  In January 2015, I set myself the ambitious goal of reading 50 books during the year. In April, I was 11 books behind schedule, and just never really got on track. I knew 50 books was an… aggressive amount of literature to consume in a year—that’s nearly one book per week, and I’m no longer…

  January 5, 2016