I agree with you, the quote is self-righteous, but in the context of the Starbucks coffee cup it is perfect irony for two reasons. 1) because they are a pretentious company anyway and 2) because their business plan is so.... "ecclectic" it's hard to know what they are about, exactly: are they a coffeehouse or a music distributor? do they sell coffee or strange coffee-like smoothie drinks? why does their coffee taste so burnt, yet sell for such ridiculously high prices? Perhaps these are myste...

The irony is that I actually had to "skip" a piece before this popped into my queue. Now onto the content..... I agree that this is a long time coming. Having been with Urbis since beta and seen the many [failed] iterations of this site, I must admit that it is nice to read things I either feel do not satisfy my quality requirements or are out of my range (and would therefore not receive a deserving review from me as I would probably not fully comprehend the work). I do not read as often as I...

They (and by "they" I mean "the Urbis Gods") really need to change the criticism category to critique or editorial so as to not confuse the novices who feel the need to complain . This is yet another example of an angry kid searching for an outlet to vent their frustration. Listen, I understand your plight and for the most part I agree that we don't need labels and people should just enjoy whatever forms of media they choose without having to confomr to some social peer group, but beca...

I think I can see where this is going and I anticipate experiencing your development of this. Your extended metaphors are superb and the diction is eloquent without being intimidating. A few typos and a couple of questionable words are my only concerns, all of which I am sure you will clean up as you go along. I will however clarify that I don't think "pissed off" is the term you intended to use, especially since you have already demonstrated exquisite articulation is well within your abiliti...

Where do I begin critiquing this piece? Should I start with spelling and grammar or with the overall tone...? What starts out as an interesting premise for an introspective piece on art and theory and inspiration quickly becomes a musing of colloquialism and confusion. Aside from the spelling and grammar mistakes (which I will not comment on further) this play loses its way immediately after the opening scene (which is brilliant in theory) due to the poor execution of Freud's opening oration....

Briefly, I have been involved with Urbis from nearly the beginning--and when I say involved I do mean romantically because platonic love should never involve quite as much petty arguments over the relevence of uneducated judgment. Accordingly, I have morphed along with all the trifling iterations preceding this [still imperfect] network. That said, the egoists and the ignorami are everpresent. Suffice to say, I agree on all fronts. I may have to reexamine some of my possibly overlooked errors...

I really wanted to get into this because I love religious deconstruction and one of my favorite plays is R&G Are Dead, the existential qualities of which echo throughout your dialogue. Your random inquiries however, were more incessant than interesting [to me] however and I'm hoping that perhaps there's more to this Cain (the actual spelling) and Abel story than I am readily aware. The opening is confusing--clean it up by being as concise as possible. Whatever it is you see, describe it exact...

This is a tough one because though it is juvenile in concept, there is a level of maturity in the irony of the statement. (I also use maturity here in an ironic way). There's another form of irony in the fact that it is such a literal...thing....organic in it's own right but also somewhat familiar and almost recycled. It's the type of written word that has probably been processed by someone with less balls (again, intended) to speak it but lacks the refining of a ripened poet. I believe it is...

It's an interesting isolation of the Odysseus myth and I find the concept of Calypso's lasting influence promising. However I feel your admirable attempt at deconstructing gets lost in less than tolerable meter and slightly underdeveloped conceit. You start out with the fantasy, leading to a sort of erotic narrative (which is good) about a forbidden love. I encounter some confusion in trying to determine if the references to Odysseus are figurative or literal-in that are you taking on the cha...