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Year: 2013


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The Captain Kirk Problem: How Doctor Who Betrayed Matt Smith

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Lots of good pulls in this Atlantic article, but some highlights: The entirety of Season Six is when Moffat’s fascination for plot twists and open-ended mysteries (in our house, we describe this unfortunate tendency as “plotty-wotty”) took over the show, and the whole product suffered. … As Moffat checked off the boxes, … all I […]

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The struggle of an indexed life

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I live online. That’s a statement means different things to different people. To people before my generation, that may mean I’ve made a choice disconnect from “real life” and spend it staring at a series of LCD screens. To those within my generation (or neighboring it), it may mean that I’ve adopted the position that […]

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A Breakdown of Guns and Ammo's Response to a Reasonable Editorial

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Recently, a [former] editor at Guns and Ammo published what most rational citizens would consider a measured and logical approach to gun control. For that, he was fired, disowned, and earned an official response from the remaining editorial staff. Below is that response, editorialized by me, a current non-crazy gun person (which apparently is now […]

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Breaking Bad

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Perfect. So much digital ink will be spilled on Monday about this show, I’ll hold my insufficient words. But I think one thing felt so right about the show, and it only works in the context of that Universe. Walt. Wins. And that’s the only way the show could have ended. Breaking Bad, for all […]

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Site moving, new URL

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After years of neglect, this site and blog will be moving to Blogger. The youknowwhatpart.com URL will expire or be sold and all posts have been migrated to http://youknowwhatpart.blogspot.com/. Please update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, carrier pigeons and indentured servants^H^H^H unpaid interns.   Update: Nevermind