Volume 2, Fall 2009
Semicolon Slut, by Dorine Jennette
“The semicolon is the seal, still warm, of Eros on written language. It signifies union by a grammatical invitation to intimacy; the semicolon is the shared blush of a successful seduction. As with all seductions, the relationships between clauses joined by semicolons are ambiguous; this is not the punctuation of hierarchy, but of nuance.”

Toward a Cinema of Total Horror, by Jonathan Kieran
“Whatever vignettes of bodily intrusion and vulnerability may follow, however, present an altered set of possibilities; the universe of normal human relationships is undercut by the transition to one of body-hatred—physical misanthropy—and extraordinary victimization. All horror movies are concerned largely with the play of these two universes.”