Brock Scholte

Joined: July 12, 2023
Articles: 5

The Secret Horror of Cloverfield

On the third of July 2007, Transformers released in theatres. Attached to every screening like a parasite was an unlabelled trailer, comprised entirely of handheld footage. In it, people mill about at a going away party for a man named Rob.

Brock Scholte
March 18, 2024

Articles Film Reviews Opinion

HOUSE OF LEAVES or, Postmodern Science, the Hypercube and Parallel Dimensions, and the Hypertext

House of Leaves is a weird book. It’s ergodic, postmodern, epistolary, and thirty other adjectives only used by wankers and nerds (me). It’s the kind of book that has academic papers written about it, and those papers have sections titled, “Postmodern Science, the Hypercube and Parallel Dimensions, and the Hypertext”. Seriously, that’s an actual chapter in this Buffalo State College paper.

Brock Scholte
December 22, 2023

Features Student Columns Wyrdo

The New Weird or, Long Live the Next Weird

WYRDO is a Glass column obsessed with finding the weirdest kinds of literature available! From not-quite-infinite poetry to unbound books and beyond, this is the place for the most deranged writing you’ve (probably) never heard of. This edition is about…

Brock Scholte
October 23, 2023

Articles Wyrdo

OULIPO or, Labyrinth Rats

The Oulipo was founded by Raymond Queneau, a former surrealist. Inspired by both historical constraint techniques, and avant-garde mathematician group Bourbaki, Queneau started the Oulipo.

Brock Scholte
August 29, 2023

Articles Creative Student Columns Wyrdo

SURREALISM or, Fairy Tales Still Almost Blue

You’re probably most familiar with Surrealism as a visual art medium. The name Salvador Dalí comes to mind, as does his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory: clocks draped over trees, edges and indistinct objects.