Mucius Scaevola

The Beta Song Genre

by Mucius Scaevola 07.26.2011

Most of us have heard of the Beta Film Genre, i.e. films produced or directed by Judd Apatow, or featuring his perennial cast of actors – Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill etc. I actually like movies like The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, Pineapple Express etc., but they still stand as very bad [...]

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Ugly Truths and Moral Outrage

by Mucius Scaevola 07.14.2011

Human emotion and its encapsulation in mind is anything but. We are all fluttering valves of open hostility, anger, joy, sadness, exhuberance, and love. What we think of as limitation is really only the emotionally distant anticipation of a next thing not being here yet. When sated with its knowledge and slaked from doubt, we see through [...]

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Peter Pan Syndrome; or, Diagnosing the PUA

by Mucius Scaevola 06.09.2011
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This is a book review of The Peter Pan Syndrome by Dr. Dan Kiley. It was written about thirty years ago and is a very interesting read. This book is written for women about how to deal with men supposedly having PPS, which is the desire to stay eternally young. But the man is no white knight, ripping apart [...]

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