LITERAL REMAINS

Be back in a few days.  Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With [...]

Yep, I’m checking out early.  If you scroll down the home page, I have posted the remaining articles for the October 2010 countdown.  I’m taking a little vacation, and I’ll be back right here on Literal Remains on November 9th. We at Literal Remains wish you a fun, and safe, Halloween.  We hope you have [...]

Yes, it is the first full day of Autumn.  And here, in my headquarters tucked away in the middle of the great state of Tennessee, it’s about ninety degrees outside.  It surely don’t feel like Fall.  But it’s in the air, you can feel it.  The leaves are falling, they are turning colors…maybe from the [...]

I just put up a new story, “Caught Between the Twisted Stars”.  It’s the first story I’ve written this year.  I’m pathetic, I know.  But I hope you enjoy it.  It is a zombie story, because, you know, I likey zombies. It’s a short piece, just a “flash”, and I hope you find it a [...]

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 [...]