The tally is in for my 2024 reading. That is down a little bit in terms of total pages and number of books from 2023.…
We had a local mass shooting while I was gone and I’m just getting to it but the narrative has changed wildly since it first…
While I vaguely remember watching the movie The Children of Men some time ago, I never read the book so for whatever reason I decided…
Michel Houellebecq is what you might call an odd duck. He is acclaimed as “France’s most successful living writer” and he looks like a caricature…
After a week of rain, it was a nice Saturday in the Upper Midwest and you know what that means: lead flying among the exuberant…
I finished up Kurt Schlichter’s underwhelming book, ‘The Attack‘, this morning while waiting on a gaggle of Amish girls at the downtown Fort Wayne library.…
Last week I read Wiseguy, a book from the 1980s that recounts the story of a Mafia wiseguy named Henry Hill. If that name sounds…
In my post Embrace This I referred to a new Netflix film Leave The World Behind and one specific scene from the film…. The scene…
October 22, 1982. I was a couple of months shy of turning 11 and a film hit the theaters that every young White kid in…
Just out of boredom I watched most of the The Green Mile the other day. It is a well made film but it is also…