Category: Walter Hill
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The Mamba Mentality
Written by: Walter Hill Animation stills by Glen Keane- from the short film “Dear Basketball”, 2017 When I learned on January 26 that Kobe Bryant died, I was working. I mourned later that Sunday night, alone and silent on the basketball court. I mourned in the way Kobe the basketball great…
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The End of Star Wars
Written By: Walter Hill On December 20, 2019, Star Wars as we know it will end. I have no idea how J.J. Abrams is going to bow tie the many loose ends and hinted promises presented by The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens. For me, I’m not sure the…
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Impeaching Donald Trump Is Not a Victory
Written by Walter Hill President Donald Trump is being impeached. This is not a sunny moment in America. As of this writing, it has been roughly 48 hours since Speaker Nancy Pelosi lit the match by way of a televised announcement. A lot has transpired in very little time and…
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Champlain Could Use A Soul (And Athletics)
Written by Walter Hill Come back with me to Fall 2015. Travel to Washington, D.C. and the stands of a high school football game. It’s a sunny, breezy fall day. The buzzer blares to signal the end of the third quarter. A roar explodes from the student section as the…
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Champlain Could Use A Soul (And Athletics)
Written by Walter Hill Come back with me to Fall 2015. Travel to Washington, D.C. and the stands of a high school football game. It’s a sunny, breezy fall day. The buzzer blares to signal the end of the third quarter. A roar explodes from the student section as the…
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A Writer’s Ode To James Baldwin
Written by Walter Hill Illustrated by Isabel Dickey The faces of the civil rights movement are iconic. Their faces themselves, the furrowed brows and clenched jaws, held the hope and anger and resilience of a whole people. The Martin Luther Kings and Malcolm Xs of the world often tear their…
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Spider-Man Redeemed My 2018
Written by Walter Hill Being a student on a college campus can often feel like a safe, insulated experience. The world feels far away from the windows of a classroom or the noise of the dining hall. For me, 2018 saw the barrier between student life and the real world…
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I’m Afraid You Need to Watch This
By Walter Hill There’s a moment in the first episode of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared where a talking notepad decrees with absolute certainty that green is not a creative color. It was then that I decided to see the show to its bloody, surreal, and dissonant conclusion. Over the…
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A Larger World
Written by Walter Hill In Montreal, I am an alien. I am a transplant student, a long-term vacationer. On some days, hiding my foreignness is easy. Most everyone in Montreal speaks some degree of English; McDonalds and H&M abound. There is a thin whisper of America in the capitalism, television,…
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On the 4th of July
Written by Walter Hill I do not feel patriotic today. It’s hard to feel pride in a country that as a black guy would prefer you to silently and “gratefully” play sports instead of have a political opinion. I struggle to endorse our forever Wars after learning of the failures…
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