LITERAL REMAINS

I’m a Peter Gabriel fan from way back.  I think he’s a great songwriter, a great musician, a great vocalist.  Some of his work takes time to digest, though.  For the majority of So to be so readily accessible, the follow-up, Us, required a couple of listenings to fully appreciate it.  His next album, Up, [...]

For some, Friday the 13th is to be feared.  For others it is to be celebrated, and still for some, they could care less, viewing it as just another day.  I don’t fear it, but I do try to use a little more caution on a Friday the 13th.  I’ve done a little reading this [...]

“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”  For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the battle of the flesh and spirit, of the divine and the profane, the sacred and the sacrilegious.  My cousin, the Big D, told me before he doesn’t care much for those horror movies [...]

I just read a few moments ago a very interesting article.  It seems a Baptist church from Kansas is set to protest at the San Diego Comic-Con today, Thursday, July 22, 2010.  Their reason, because they feel that the fans have turned the superheroes and other comic book characters into idols.  Idol worship, that’s right.  [...]

It seems that with each passing year more and more of my childhood is dying away.  It’s only rightly so, nothing lasts forever.  Time marches on, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah.  As Johnny Thunders so accurately put it, “You can’t put your arms around a memory.” I read the other day that the folks [...]

Have you seen this True Blood series on HBO?  You probably have, but if anybody out there doesn’t know what I’m speaking of, it’s a show about a world that knows vampires exist, and so do werewolves and shapeshifters, and there is this waitress in Louisiana, Sookie Stackhouse, who can hear peoples’ thoughts and gets involved [...]

It’s that time of year again…SUMMER VACATION!  Yes, school is out, for most everyone, and the kidos don’t go back until the Fall.  Is this the most dreaded time of year for a parent?  Is dreaded because of the hassle of finding childcare, of trying to occupy the children’s time, or because, you know, the [...]

Ahh…vampires.  Just a few weeks ago, Chatty Kathy was watching Twilight Saga:  New Moon, again; this was right after it came out on DVD.  Now, I went to the theater and saw it with her, and I watched it a second time on DVD with her.  I asked her that night how many times she had [...]

This is not a review.  Just wanted to get that out of the way.  I have tried to read Rhodi Hawk’s debut novel, A Twisted Ladder.  I stopped around page 320 or so, which was a little over the halfway point.  Halfway, yes.  I couldn’t go on. Psychologist Madeleine LeBlanc has spent her whole career [...]

…here I am, stuck in the middle with you.  It’s not a bad place to be stuck.  I kinda like it. You ever been in a rut?  Not like the blah blah ruts that people find themselves mired in, but a happy kind of rut.  Maybe it’s not even a rut.  Probably just a matter [...]

I assume, if it is safe to do so, that I became familiar with the works of Edgar Allan Poe as most people did, and I guess still do:  school.  If I remember correctly it was sometime around grammar school that I was introduced to Poe.  I don’t remember what grade I was in, but [...]