2005 Archive

Here you'll find every update from The Dreamersedge's initial launch in 2005. The year was an odd mix of literary exploration and utter inanity.

2005-10-31

Happy Halloween!

To conclude Halloween Month, this week's update features an essay discussing the role of horror fiction in our lives:

Halloween Essay: Monsters: From Our Hearts to the Screen

2005-10-24

Halloween Month continues!

This week's update features a review of Wes Craven's Cursed, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Christina Ricci, and Joshua Jackson:

Halloween Review: Cursed

2005-10-17

Halloween Month continues!

This week's update features a literary essay discussing the hauntings in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper:

Halloween Essay: Truth and Other Phantoms

2005-10-10

Halloween Month continues!

This week's update features a review of Alexandre Aja's High Tension, also known as Switchblade Romance, starring Cécile de France and Maïwenn Le Besco:

Halloween Review: High Tension

2005-10-03

Halloween Month begins!

This week's update features an essay on mummies, the only monsters out there to come pre-wrapped:

Halloween Essay: The Truth and Lies about Mummies

2005-09-26

In preparation for Halloween Month, I've added a new section to the site. It archives essays about cinema:

DE Review: Movie Essays

2005-09-19

This week's update celebrates the birthdays of two important American authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner were born on September 24 and 25 respectively.

As such, here's an essay discussing the notion of death in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying:

Literary Essay: Mortal Solitudes

2005-09-12

The website received its first fan letter recently, so I thought now would be a good time to dig into the mail bag. It was mostly filled with spam:

Mail from July and August 2005

2005-09-05

After an unexpected three-week hiatus, the website returns with a brand new section dedicated to fan mail:

Dreamers Expressions

2005-08-08

This week's update features part two of the incredibly verbose Mindless Midnight Survey:

Mindless Midnight Survey Part II: Mindless Midnight Originality

2005-08-01

This week's update features the first half of a two-part Internet questionnaire that's likely to take you just about forever to fill out:

Mindless Midnight Survey Part I

2005-07-25

This week's update features a brand new comic strip starring Snippy the Passive-Aggressive Dog:

Comic Strip: The Canine Condition

2005-07-18

This week's update features my answers to the unbelievably moronic Crazy Survey:

Crazy Survey Part II: Crazy Answers

2005-07-11

This week's update features the first half of a two-part special about an incredibly stupid Internet questionnaire my friend Nicolas and I once composed:

Crazy Survey Part I

2005-07-04

This week's update features a comic strip I wrote and illustrated for the Girls' Night Out newsletter:

Comic Strip: Carrie and Co.

2005-06-20

Cliché Month concludes!

This week's update features rather doubtful statistics:

Every Cloud Has a Silver Cliché: Inquisitive Minds Want to Preach

2005-06-13

Cliché Month continues!

Here's the first half of an exasperating list of feel-good nonsense:

Every Cloud Has a Silver Cliché: Things That Make You Go, "Urgh" Part I

2005-06-06

Cliché Month begins!

This week's update features my answers to the first of three sappy chain letters:

Every Cloud Has a Silver Cliché: Claims from a Cracked Research Team

2005-05-30

Well, I think that's enough comic book and science-fiction material for one month.

This week's update features a brief essay discussing Sophocles' classic play Oedipus the King:

Literary Capsule: A Battle of Wills

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

2005-05-23

The final Star Wars prequel came out last week, putting fans of the franchise out of their misery.

This week's update features a review of the movie, which stars Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Frank Oz, and Ian McDiarmid:

Movie Review: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Bat-Mystery Solved: Joel Schumacher Was Right!

2005-05-16

This week's update features a shocking exposé about the world's greatest detective, the Caped Crusader himself, Batman:

Super-Hero Tabloid: Bat-Mystery Solved: Joel Schumacher Was Right!

2005-05-09

This week's update features a slightly outdated comic strip originally published in A Bloody Good Read:

Comic Strip: Theological Thriller

2005-05-02

In preparation for material coming over the next two weeks, I've added a new section to the site. It archives comic strips:

Doodles Edge

2005-04-25

This week's update features part two of our Daniel Defoe celebration. His birthday was just yesterday.

Here's a full-length essay discussing the peculiar narrative in his novel Robinson Crusoe:

Daniel Defoe Extravaganza Part II: Realistic Symbolism

2005-04-18

Author Daniel Defoe's birthday is coming up. To celebrate the occasion, the last two April updates will focus on the world's first English novel, Robinson Crusoe.

To get started, here's a very brief essay discussing Defoe's seminal literary work:

Daniel Defoe Extravaganza Part I: Colonial Genesis

2005-04-11

Robert Rodriguez' adaptation of Frank Miller's cult graphic novel series Sin City came out last week.

This week's update features a review of the stylishly gritty film noir, which stars Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, and Jessica Alba:

Movie Review: Sin City

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories

2008-04-04

Postmodern British author John Fowles' birthday was just a few days ago.

To celebrate the occasion, here's a brief essay discussing the ending of his short story The Enigma:

Literary Capsule: To Murder a Mystery

2005-03-28

In preparation for next week's update, I've added a new section to the site. It archives literary capsules:

DE Review: Literary Capsules

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

2005-03-21

This week's update features the first of many literary essays I intend to post on this website.

This first entry discusses author Laurence Sterne's duel with death in his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

Literary Essay: A Race against Time

2005-03-14

In preparation for next week's update, I've added a new section to the site. It archives literary essays:

DE Review: Literary Essays

2005-03-07

As I've mentioned in Spoiling the Fun, I don't see the point of a grade or rating if the scale isn't properly explained.

As such, this week's update features a detailed elucidation of the rating scale used in the website's movie reviews:

DE Review: Rating Scale

2005-02-28

Constantine, an adaptation of the comic book series Hellblazer, came out last week.

This week's update features a review of the fantasy thriller, starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, and Tilda Swinton:

Movie Review: Constantine

2005-02-21

In preparation for next week's update, I've added a new section to the site. It archives movie reviews:

DE Review

2005-02-14

This week's update celebrates Valentine's Day with a whole new take on those role-playing novels from the eighties:

DE Expressions: A Time-Warped Valentine

2005-02-07

This week, I answer one of those obnoxious "get to know you" questionnaires floating around the Internet:

DE Expressions: Spoiling the Fun

2005-01-31

Welcome to The Dreamersedge!

This week's update features the top signs you grew up during the nineties:

DE Expressions: Those Damn 90s

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