I’m not big on Science Fiction or Space stuff. I couldn’t care less about spaceships and intergalactic travel. It just bores me. Yeah, I know that most SciFi tries at making a point to parallel our own life with a future scenario in an effort to gain some perspective on the human experience but, whatever, …
Why Firehouse Subs is better than smoking Crack
I have no scientific evidence to back up my claims here, but I do believe that eating at Firehouse Subs is way better than getting addictive to crack cocaine. And not just for the obvious health benefits. Here’s why: Back in 2012 I was on a U.S. tour and came across my first Firehouse Subs …
Books: Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep is a sequel that shouldn’t exist
I was quite excited when I heard that Stephen King was writing a sequel to The Shining. I was coming out of reading his JFK novel 11/22/63 and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Shining was one of the first Stephen King books I ever read; The Shining was also one of the first movies I’d ever seen. Way …
My response to David Christopher Bell’s “4 Horrible Schools That Would Make Ayn Rand Proud” Article.
David Christopher Bell is a columnist over at Cracked.com and he recently made a swing at humor by lumping Ayn Rand into an article about four public schools that did something stupid. His piece was called “4 Horrible Schools That Would Make Ayn Rand Proud” and it’s completely filled with lies, misrepresentations, false assumptions, ignorance, …
Books: “S.” by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst is a well conceived assassin of your time.
Imagine that you’re at a bar with some friends and one of them has a story they want to tell. “You guys won’t believe what happened to me last night.” Great, some entertainment for the night. Your buddy starts telling his story and just as he gets into it two of your friends stop him …
Books: The power of language is played with in Lexicon by Max Barry
Whenever I was in High School I read Stephen King’s The Stand and there was this part in it where Randall Flagg was talking about all these different things he’d done in his life. One of the things he mentioned was being able to incite a riot by just giving a speech. When I read that …
Books: Lost Girls by Robert Kolker delves into the unsolved murders of the Long Island Serial Killer
I was a little skeptical going into Lost Girls by Robert Kolker because it’s really a book about unsolved murders. Look, I’m just the reader here. I don’t know these girls. So my first thought when I heard about this was, “so what’s the payoff?” For starters, this book starts off with Shannon Gilbert fleeing …
Books: A time-traveling murderer’s victim survives to track him through history in Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls
Alright, so get a load of this: The Shining Girls is about a drifter named Harper Curtis that stumbles upon a house that allows him to travel to different points in time. However, it just so happens that Harper is a murdering psycho. So now we’ve got this guy with the ability to jump through …
Books: The Early Ayn Rand demonstrates a writer’s growth while retaining her philosophical ideals.
I’ve pretty much read everything Ayn Rand has written with the exception of all the things published in The Objectivist newsletter. But all her published fiction and non-fiction books I’ve torn through. I’ve even gone through a fair bit of the works by authors that were associated with her, i.e. Nathaniel Brandon. I have a …
Movies: Refn’s “Valhalla Rising” pays homage to Merhige’s “Begotten.”
I recently got around to checking out Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising and I kinda loved it. It reminded me a lot of E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten which is my favorite movie. I don’t think Refn intentionally borrowed from Merhige’s Begotten but there sure are a lot of parallels between the two. The story lines are somewhat …
