It transpires like this: My wife, Cathy, whom I have been married to for x number of years (x = heart memory, buried memory, misty and unaccounted for. The lost time blows over the plain of my inner world, leaving shadows like gaping mouths rolling ever closer.) decides that enough’s enough. She quit her job, she quit church and when that didn’t make her life better, she quit me. Continue reading →
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Gumdrops
About two years ago I lost the ability to fly. Not like Superman, nothing so impressive. Just a loose kind of upright hovering, as though my heart were suspended from a cloud passing high overhead. The onsets came unannounced: Electricity warmed my spine and I simply inhaled, drifting upward, dangling until I could push off a nearby wall or streetlight.
It unnerved passersby. Spontaneously flying people were unsafe or at least untrustworthy. Continue reading →
Fellowship of the Ring Review
You don’t need to read my review to know that this was a phenomenal film. So let me just give you my thoughts on it. Continue reading →
Homework Assignment
Here is your homework assignment. You don’t need to do it all at once. Perhaps just read the questions and think about them and discuss them at a later date. Continue reading →
The Numbers Game
Maybe if you rub those tickets together, you’ll excite the numbers. But listen to me, friend, you don’t ever want to let them rub off on you. Don’t even look at them too much or you might get Marked. You think you’re gambling now, but you don’t know the half of it. Before the numbers catch up with you, I better tell you about Dave. Continue reading →
Evolution
I just got back from a test screening of Evolution. The invite pretty much fell into my lap. I had no plans, so I went. All I knew about the movie was that Duchovny was in it. I didn’t even know it was a comedy. So I entered the theater with zero expectations. Ivan Reitman introduced the film as a work in progress, etc. He expressed concern about the ending, that perhaps it was too confusing. Then the lights dimmed and we were rolling. Continue reading →
The Phantom Menace
Having seen Episode 1 for the fourth time, I now feel prepared to write down my thoughts on it. I am biased, of course: I knew I would love this movie years ago. Let me approach it in terms of a Star Wars experience and as a story in general. Let me try to discern what was going on in Lucas’ mind. Continue reading →
Books I Read in 1997
( 2.3 Books/Month Average)
1. The Handmaid’s Tale
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes
3. Sandman: The Wake
4. Chaos & Cyberculture
5. Over Sea, Under Stone
6. The Ascent of Wonder
7. The Dark is Rising
8. Greenwitch
9. The Grey King
10. Love for a Lifetime
11. Silver on the Tree
12. The Book of Three
13. The Black Cauldron
14. The Castle of Llyr
15. Taran Wanderer
16. Books of Magic
17. The High King
18. Signal to Noise
19. The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
20. Sandman Midnight Theatre
21. Death: The Time of Your Life
22. Black Orchid
23. The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
24. On Cats and Dogs
25. Dandelion Wine
26. Neverwhere
27. Don’t Panic
28. Permutation City
Books I Read in 1996
( 4.7 Books/Month Average)
1. Understanding Comics
2. Dinotopia
3. The New Hugo Winners
4. Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
5. Sandman: The Doll’s House
6. The Big Time
7. Sandman: Dream Country
8. Sandman: Season of Mists
9. Sandman: Fables & Reflections
10. Faust Part I
11. Sandman: A Game of You
12. Death: The High Cost of Living
13. Sandman: Brief Lives
14. One
15. Sandman: World’s End
16. Crazy in Alabama
17. The Book of Answers
18. The Last Unicorn
19. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
20. Violent Cases
21. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
22. Vurt
23. The Once and Future King
24. The Book of Merlyn
25. Pollen
26. The Artificial Kid
27. Schismatrix
28. Crystal Express
29. Naked Lunch
30. Generation of Swine
31. Islands in the Net
32. Sandman: The Kindly Ones
33. Globalhead
34. Heavy Weather
35. The Difference Engine
36. Hamlet
37. Han Solo at Star’s End
38. The Great Shark Hunt
39. Han Solo’s Revenge
40. Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
41. Finding the Love of Your Life
42. A New Hope
43. The Empire Strikes Back
44. Songs of the Doomed
45. Couplehood
46. Shadows of the Empire
47. Automated Alice
48. Cinderella (Wegman)
49. Return of the Jedi
50. Holy Fire
51. The Hacker Crackdown
52. Idoru
53. The Master’s Gambit
54. The Working Woman’s Wedding Planner
55. Before the Invid Storm
56. How to Draw a Radish
Books I Read in 1995
(2.6 Books/Month Average)
1. Neuromancer
2. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
3. Sandman: A Game of You
4. The Time Machine
5. Sandman: Fables & Reflections
6. 1984
7. Phaedrus
8. The Things They Carried
9. Off Kennedy’s Yacht
10. Death: The High Cost of Living
11. Kindred
12. In the Vineyard of the Text
13. Frankenstein
14. A Scanner Darkly
15. Batman: Arkham Asylum
16. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
17. Service for the Dead
18. Neuromancer
19. The Left Hand of Darkness
20. Solaris
21. Sandman: Brief Lives
22. Music: An Appreciation
23. Neuromancer
24. Sandman: World’s End
25. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
26. Johnny Mnemonic Screenplay
27. Oh, the Places You’ll Go
28. The Friendly Snowflake
29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
30. The Crow
31. Mr. Punch