Articles Written By Llewellyn Hinkes
TMN Contributing Writer Llewellyn Hinkes is a playwright and programmer in Washington, D.C.
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Opinions
Les Bêtes Fromages
America adores its clichés about France—skinny women, good sex, and “surrender monkeys.” Well, it’s about time we respected France’s history of conquering and oppressing the world.
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Opinions
The Ghost in the Machine Is a Jerk
Everyone has computer problems—only a chosen few are driven insane by them. A defense of daily paranoia.
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Opinions
Just Criminalize It
California looks to legalize pot in November—and that, in many ways, would be a crime. An argument against political causes involving dreadlocked alien masks.
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Letters From Havana
Cuban Kremlinology
In Cuba, bloggers face reprisals and internet access is governed by mysterious forces. Even telephones can’t be trusted.
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The Non-Expert
How to Become a Playwright
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we attempt to help a young thespian realize his misinformed dreams.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Savior of Newspaperdom
Unless the newspaper honchos invent some brilliant ideas, the broadsheet is dead. A last-ditch brainstorm.
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The Non-Expert
The Power of the Three
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal the secrets of the mighty triumvirate that rules the universe. But you didn’t hear about it here.
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Personal Essays
The Transient, Digital Fetish
As the world goes Kindle and iPhone-mad, paperbacks and mixtapes become worthy of devotion. Watching a music collection disappear and wondering what it meant.
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Listening
Entertainment Hierarchy
The dimensional hierarchy of artistic mediums usually goes like this: Written Word < Music < Video < Music Video < Opera < Virtual Reality. Too often this is mistaken for a hierachy of quality, where...
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Spoofs & Satire
The Week After
Barack Obama’s inauguration next week will be full of significant, historical events. But what about the seven days to follow?
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Listening
SoCal Decay
Southern California is a dark and foreboding place. People commonly associate it with the Beach Boys and Gidget, but that was from a long time past when you could still...
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Op-Ed
Programming in English, or Translate :: ParseLib :: English
Computer code may not be gobbledygook, but that doesn’t make it art. A survey of the field of programming-cum-poetry to find the ghost (of Hamlet’s father) in the machine.