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Author: Y. Balloo

Amateur novelist / Work in progress.
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One Year Later-

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 17, 2021

Eight people were shot and killed in Atlanta last night. I echo and endorse all…

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  • Movies & TV

Emma Review – Never Been Vexed

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 6, 2020March 6, 2020

Was it delightful, cute, and charming? Absolutely. Did it make me think very hard? Not at all, and that’s fine.

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  • Politics & Lifestyle

Can a Billionaire be the Hero in 2020?

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 21, 2020February 21, 2020

Maybe Bruce Wayne is better off putting on the batsuit than mucking around in politics

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  • On Writing

Week in Review: A Nigerian Buttigieg Supporter, and Recognizing Minority Creators

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 19, 2020February 19, 2020

The NBA got one right and gave a young woman her time to shine for her achievement of creating something that had a cultural moment.

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  • Movies

2020 Oscar Predictions

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

It’s become a favorite annual tradition for me to do my best impression of every internet know-it-all and blunder boldly into predicting the Academy Awards outcomes among movies I largely ignored. However, this year I’ve actually seen a good number of the movies up for the statue? Weird.

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  • Movies & TV

The Four Best Films of the Year & Lessons In Storytelling

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on December 26, 2019December 26, 2019

2019 has felt like an incredibly long year, but in the case of cinema that’s been a very good thing.

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  • Movies & TV

Leaving Behind the 2010s & Two Other Things

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on December 14, 2019December 19, 2019

Happy new year, Happy new decade. We move forward.

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  • Movies & TV

Raising Dion – How to Raise a Hero

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on October 16, 2019

Raising Dion truly has its foundation firmly fixed in the right place, and is telling us the right story about how to raise a hero.

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  • Politics & Lifestyle

Community’s Most Beautiful Episode

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on September 19, 2019

Ultimately, Community’s masterstroke for the episode and as a series overall is that Harmon tapped into an existential diaspora of our post-boomer, capitalism-disillusioned generation that disgraced power lawyer Jeff Winger was thrust among in the show

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  • Video Games

The Problem with Carte Blanche

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on September 13, 2019

Kojima is a genius madman of an video game auteur, and we are finally gifted after a 3 year wait with details most directors would have released, well, 3 years ago.

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