What Whitney's Watching

   Last Friday I sat down to watch the long awaited sixth season of the critically acclaimed show, Black Mirror. A show, in which the hubris, callousness, and stupidity of the modern day is tangled up with technological innovation and social media, often to harrowing effect for the characters in each episode. The show's five episodes this season offered a fresh take on the themes previously outlined as well as introduced the supernatural into a world that felt lively but spiritually sterile. My roommates and I screamed at the twist ending at the end of 'Loch Ness', danced at a particularly clever needle drop during 'Mazey day', and discussed the wider universe shift of the show after the end of 'Demon 79'. At the same time, unbeknownst to us and the rest of the world however, five men were about to set out into the depths of the ocean and the following tragedy and media circus would result in a saga fit for 'Black Mirror'. After a brief delay, Oceang...

 I have no way of verifying this but I hope that dusting off this blog will feel like walking into the 10 year high school reunion of the class one year ahead of yours. You absolutely don't belong there but you aren't a total stranger either. You know everyone but you were barely friends and that was exacerbated by the fact that they forgot all about you when they crossed that stage. Looking through old, unfinished drafts feels like sitting down at a table with older members of your track team and trying to reminisce about the good old days then remembering that your best and clearest memories of the sport happened months after they graduated. This is when the awkward laughter starts and you pull out your phone because suddenly twitter is interesting again. Maybe you get up and grab a cheese plate, who knows. Then someone you had college algebra with walks up to you and you guys chat for a little bit. They ask if you test-taking skills have improved and you rib back about their...