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My name is Logan Doe.  People call me Logan.  It's my name.

I was a student at UW-Barron County from fall '02 to spring '04.  I withdrew for a few years to pursue fulfilling endeavors, to search for the meaning of life, to question everything in a pursuit of happiness and thus gain a deeper knowledge of my very existence (I really just worked and was bummed that I wasn't in school).   I come to you now 3 years older, 3 years hairier, and as stoked as I used to be about doing homework.  That's all I'll say about that.   I used to write film reviews for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram for 2 years, which I loved doing.  I worked at The Chronotype here in Rice Lake as a proofreader for 3 years up until the week before I returned to college.  We started printing ROOTS at The Chronotype not too long ago, which interested me because it meant ROOTS had progressed from a newsletter (how sad), to an actual newspaper.  A considerable improvement.     I hope that I can find a place as some kind of contributor for ROOTS, I hope you'll decide to spend a few minutes reading what everyone on the staff makes an effort to put out, both online and off.  You may catch something that deprives you of Paris Hilton and the general dumbing down of America.  So please read.  Brain medicine.
Now, go to the cafeteria and get something to eat, you're wasting away.

2008 --Logan Doe

Iron Man: A Review

Tony Stark, a brilliant scientist, is the billionaire CEO of Stark Industries, a corporation he inherited from his father that produces advanced weaponry for theUnited States military.  After a presentation to the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan, Stark is injured by his company’s own missile when his convoy is attacked by terrorists who hold him hostage and force he and a doctor to build the missile for them that he had demonstrated.  Instead, Stark utilizes limited resources and constructs an iron suit that enables him to escape from the terrorists.  Back in the States, he rethinks the intention of his company and designs an improved version of the suit, giving him superhuman strength and the ability to fly, setting out to destroy the weapons he and his company created. Read the Full Review...

May. 8, 2008 --Logan D.

Shutter: A Review

Ben and Jane (Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor), a newly married couple, traverse to Tokyo after he receives a job opportunity photographing models. On the drive over, they seem to hit a young woman in the road. After the accident, they come to, and she is gone. They continue their journey and attempt to live their new lives together happily, only to be haunted by images of the woman in the photos the couple take. Read the Full Review...

Mar. 31, 2008 --Logan D.

Semi-Pro: A Review

Over three consecutive years, Will Ferrell has released three comedies devoted each to a specific professional sport: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (NASCAR racing), Blades of Glory (ice skating), and now Semi-Pro, chronicling the misadventures of Jackie Moon (Ferrell) and the Tropics, the worst team in the American Basketball Association. Read the Full Review...

Mar. 13, 2008 --Logan D.

The Blog...

In the age of blogs, what distinguishes the legitimacy of one writer from another?  A degree?  How does a critic's job change?  Who are the critics anymore and what does their opinion justify when your next-door neighbor has the ability to self-publicate?  An entire generation's rules and standards seem up for grabs to be remeasured, reweighed, and recalculated, teetering on a thin edge bordering a trash can and a pot of gold.  To a further extent, anyone with a video camera and a computer with a 2.0 USB port can put their work out there for all to see.  Not everyone is out to be Fellini...but some are.  How much responsibility can be given to a select few to basically guide artistic expression to new heights, and how is this being handed out?  It's liberating, it's terrifying, and it's challenging.
 
Who Watches the Watchmen?

Mar. 11, 2008 --Logan D.

The Twenty-Four Best Albums of 2007

The best albums of 2007.

There's so much I haven't listened to that would most definitely make the cut if it found its way to me somehow... Read More...

Feb. 22, 2008 --Logan D.

The Top Thirty(-Three) Films of 2007

I saw more films in the theatre in '07 than I have in a very long time. Avoided presumed shitcrap

i.e. Bratz, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Daddy's Little Girls, Stomp the Yard, Epic Movie, Premonition, Because I Said So, Are We Done Yet?, Delta Farce, Kickin' It Old Skool, Mr. Woodcock, Feel the Noise, The Comebacks...but I did see Norbit...I should have stabbed my eyes out and saved $7. Read More...

Feb. 22, 2008 --Logan D.