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Author: Y. Balloo

Amateur novelist / Work in progress.
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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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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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IT Chapter Two Review

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on September 11, 2019September 11, 2019

You might think to yourself, as I did, ‘wow, that’s a helluva of a message go out on a limb for but a big one: regular ol’ humans are monsters all their own.’ That thought is never going to be revisited or justified in any meaningful way.

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  • Movies & TV

The Passing of the Age of Must See TV

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on September 9, 2019

You don’t owe Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ or any other company your subscription, time, or attention. There’s no cultural mandate anymore that you “have” to watch anything- if there ever was.

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  • Essay

I Used to Cross the Galaxy for Donuts

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

I used to cross the galaxy for donuts- used to cover more ground in a day around LA than some people do in a month- used to write articles, short stories, and novels in the time I spent last week barely able to stand.

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  • Music

Anything You Can Do

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Another bit of supposed conventional wisdom is that covers of classic songs can never possibly match, far less surpass the original- there’s plenty evidence to the contrary.

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  • Movies

One Man’s Fairy Tale Ending – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 8, 2019August 8, 2019

The issue is what Once Upon a Time in Hollywood culminates to in terms of a message and moral. Certainly, Inglourious Basterds culminates to a message we can all agree on: Nazis fucking suck.

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  • Short Story

Republican Jesus – The Right to Cast Stones

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019

“Certainly it’s these men’s God given right to bear stones, and there’s no law against them bearing stones?”

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Turning 21 for 22 – Isabel Rae McKenzie, Writer

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 4, 2019August 5, 2019

I know I’ve always been able to form very honest and sincere looking words. Actually writing them for the first time and putting myself on the page and seeing myself?

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