The fantasy fiction community was once again rocked when more previously unreleased sections of The Lord of the Rings were discovered. This “grail” of a literary find amounted to a new lost segment cut out of the original manuscript by […]
The gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the central stories in American mythology. Good and evil, law and order, such black and white concepts are set against each other with the "guys in …
Is origami art? The question is not completely fair since origami involves the act of creation after all, making its artistry hard to argue against. Still, can origami really be elevated to the level of …
This is my contribution to a zine of art, photography and writing loosely centered on the theme "person place thing". Anyone interested in getting a copy and checking out the other contributions should contact Jon …
Garth Ennis is one of my favorite comic book writers. But after reading his entire runs of Hitman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Punisher, Punisher Max, Punisher Max Presents Barracuda (max?), War Stories, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, …
There is a strange theme in the plots of the two otherwise enjoyable movies; The Awful Truth (one of my favorite movies, as I explained in my previous blog post) and McLintock! (no masterpiece but …
Screwball comedies were a popular film genre from the 30's and 40's. The name "screwball comedy" is a pretty apt descriptor, the situations the leads found themselves in were most often quite "screwy" "wacky" "zany" …
The notion of infinity is one of those concepts that seems beyond the realm of our understanding. Endless, forever; ideas that at first seem easy to understand, disintegrate upon closer examination. As a quick glimpse …
The fantasy fiction community was rocked last month when previously unreleased sections of The Lord of the Rings were discovered. This "grail" of a literary find amounted to a lost chapter, "A Wind from the …
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years ago I saw a movie called Brain Donors (a modern version of the Marx Brothers …