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In Defense of Woundedness, of Failure, and of Frodo: A Personal Reflection with Tolkien’s Letters
[ALERT: If you are not familiar with the end of The Lord of the Rings, do not continue…] I originally published this post on my now-too-Dickensian sit ...
Re-reading “Foucault’s Pendulum” in the Age of Q-Anon: Pt. 2 – Ur-Fascism and the Russia-Ukraine Connection
Apologies, but work on my little blog series on Re-reading Foucault’s Pendulum in the Age of QAnon has been delayed by a family emergency and the all- ...
All Relationships are Precious: A First Encounter with K-Drama and “My Mister”
My Mister opens in a typical office setting, bright and bleak as a winter afternoon, everyone absorbed and professionally distant in their open-office ...
Archive81 and Cosmic Horror
Archive81 proved a surprise Netflix hit, a slowburn horror series that wears a number of influences on its sleeve: Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining, The R ...
Chill, this is Ashland!
Ashland, Oregon is a small, artsy “destination town” in southern Oregon, just north of the California border. Home to Southern Oregon Univ ...
Re-reading “Foucault’s Pendulum” in the Age of QAnon – Pt. 1, The Plan
I just finished my third or fourth reading of Umberto Eco‘s classic esoteric suspense thriller and sublimely wacko-satirical thought experiment, ...
The Day I Fell in Love
January 18 is Winnie-the-Pooh Day…Huzzah! I’m one of those folks who remembers little of early childhood. I have, however, one sun-bright ...
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