Hello Moviegoers! Once again it’s been several months since you’ve heard from BTSB at the Movies! and so once again we’ll skip the traditional DVD review in order to look at two current movies – films that just so happen to have been two of the most highly anticipated releases of 2012. That’s right, it’s [...]
Monthly archives for June, 2012
BTSB at the Movies! June 2012
Hello Moviegoers! Once again it’s been several months since you’ve heard from BTSB at the Movies! and so once again we’ll skip the traditional DVD review in order to look at two current movies – films that just so happen to have been two of the most highly anticipated releases of 2012. That’s right, it’s [...]
How to make a foreign city your own
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted in LexioPhiles and is reposted under permission from both LexioPhiles and the author. The original article may be found here. These days it is not uncommon to take a one, two or even a three-month vacation to go about and explore the world. It’s just you and your [...]
Naked people of the North
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted in LexioPhiles and is reposted under permission from both LexioPhiles and the author. The original article may be found here. Admit it, your level of curiosity increased enormously once you registered the word naked in the headline. The inspiration for writing about this theme arose from [...]
Vermont Correspondence: Back in the L...
When I got back from a trip to China ages ago, people used to ask me how it was. I usually couldn’t think of anything snappy to say. Most often I just started by saying “It was weird” and went on from there. Right now, it feels like that’s what I’ll do talking about the [...]
Memoirs of an Exchange Widow
Random person x: “Man this spring definitely has gone by so quickly!” Me: “Lean over here, I want to pat your head with this pint, love!” This spring didn’t go by fast. The tree buds didn’t just suddenly appear; they became visible centimeter by centimeter, day by day. The weeks didn’t fly by, they crawled, [...]
Birth of a Thesis: Over and Done With
If you detect some annoyance in my final piece about me and my BA thesis, I can tell you that before sitting down to write this, I chased my suitcase from Helsinki-Vantaa to Espoo as someone mistook mine for theirs. Moving on! It’s been a while now since I handed in my essay and the [...]
The Knights Who Say DERP, part the Fi...
What follows is a short(ish) write-up of the Department of English Role-Players’, or DERP’s, first meeting and the game played there. The game was run using Labyrinth Lord, a retro-clone of Tom Moldvay’s 1981 Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons set. The players are referred to by the names of their characters instead of thei [...]
Chief Editor’s Note: Wishing Yo...
Another academic year gone and I don’t feel any wiser than before. Sure, I’ve got lots of study credits to show for my accomplishments over the past year, but as my thoughts are drawn more and more towards the Summer break now at hand, it is harder and harder to remember what it was that [...]
BTSB Book Review: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Nort...
“We’re outlawed, outgunned, outnumbered and on the run. Clusterfuck Central as you would say.” -Mikhailo Tarasov to Sergeant-Major Hartmann Set in the merciless near-future of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R video games, Balázs Pataki’s novel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Northern Passage sees daylight under unauspicious stars. After the impressiv [...]
