Don’t Become What We Oppose
I know this is probably going to earn me blowback, but I'm becoming increasingly concerned over the behavior of the Antifa protestors. Home grown Nazis and white supremacists are praying that some Antifa member kills someone. For god's sake don't give them that cover...
Airplane Movies
I thought I take a break from organizing photos and trying to capture the wonder of my trip, and talk about the two movies I watched during the long flight back to Los Angeles. And yes, there will be SPOILERS so please nobody have a MELTDOWN OVER THE SPOILERS. ...
Stockholm
I would like to have had more then a day in Tallinn, but it does rank right up there of cities to which I would like to return. But Stockholm -- I adored this city. Everywhere I looked there were beautiful views. I snapped this as I walked along the river on my way...
Scandinavian Journeys
I decided to write a blog post rather than the more ephemeral Facebook post. I'll go back and grab Helsinki, but right now I want to talk about Stockholm and my first day in Copenhagen. So far Stockholm still has my heart over both Helsinki and Copenhagen....
Dunkirk — A Meditation on the Nature of Heroism
I cannot talk about this film without talking about specific scenes. SO THERE ARE GOING TO BE SPOILERS! IF YOU CAN'T STAND SPOILERS DON'T READ THIS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ...
Grabbing Eyeballs
Ah, the teaser, the hook, the opening scene of a book — whatever you want to call it it is absolutely necessary that you have something that grabs a reader’s eyeballs and brain when they casually flip open your book and skim that first page be it at the bookstore or...
Mass Effect: Andromeda
This is my critique so there may be SPOILERS though I haven't finished (and may never finish so I'm not sure how much I can actually spoil). So here goes -- Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda has begun to feel like doing homework. Not fun and like my parents will be...
The Musketeer (Wait? What? Aren’t You Missing Several of Them?)
There are going to be spoilers in this post, but if you take my advice you won't watch this movie so it won't matter. But YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED -- SPOILERS AHEAD!...
Is This Where the Brownshirts Show Up?
I can't believe I'm typing this, but I'm worried we are now entering the Sturmabteilung (brownshirt) phase of the Trump presidency. There were t shirts worn and sold at Trump rallies that said -- Rope, Tree, Journalist, Some Assembly Required. And now we have what...
When Less Is More
This is going to be a post about GUARDIAN'S OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 so there will be SPOILERS!!!!! SPOILERS!!!!! SPOILERS!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I like most of the Marvel movies. I really liked the first Guardians movie. I liked Ant Man. I adored...
