I know, I know: It has been ages since I last posted anything here. I have been wanting to reboot this site for a while, so we’ll see how that goes. For now, though, I just wanted to give a quick update on the status of the book I have been working on for Random […]
Category: Books and Literature
The Late Great Hal Lindsey
In the 1970s, Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth was the “no. 1 non-fiction best-seller of the decade” according to the New York Times. To summarize, the book interpreted current events through the lens of biblical “prophecy” and convinced a lot of people that they were living in the last generation and that the […]
What Biebers Me: Ideological Xenophobia
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll note that I have made a few changes around here, one of which is the new tagline: Culture / Politics / Religion / Bieber. Why “Bieber”? Well, I was toying with the idea of actually writing a weekly post about the annoying little Canadian, but decided instead to treat […]
Stuff I Like: Wordsmithery and Woe
Being a writer myself, I have a deep affinity for words and their smithing. I have long maintained that it’s one thing to tell a great story, but another to tell it well, and beautifully. I would consider popular tales like the Millennium Trilogy, the five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, and the Harry Potter series to be […]
I AM
By Sky Oscar Wilde wrote, “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Yeats wrote: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion […]