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Adventures in Reference Desking.
So it has been over a month since I last “rapped at ya”, but my summer is finally settling down and I think I’m back…
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The Lord of the Rings, the lost chapters II: Grief Counseling
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…
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Great Books – Warlock by Oakley Hall, 1958
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…
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Q: Is Origami Art? A: Sure, but…
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.…
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Archetypical – Part I – The Guardian and the Bridge
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…
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The Many Nuanced Themes of Garth Ennis
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…
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Boys will be Boys: Double Standards in McLintock! and The Awful Truth.
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…
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My Favorite Movies 5 — The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
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…
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Just what exactly is infinity plus one?
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…
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Lord of the Rings, The Lost Chapters I: A Wind from the West
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…
