I really don’t understand some people. (Which probably says something about my limitations as a fiction writer, but…) A couple of the blogs I follow are by erudite fellows — one an academic, the other an autodidact — who post thoughtful, faith-infused comments on history or politics or apologetics or personal experience from a Latter-day…
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Movies Seen Recently: Epoch, Parasyte, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.
Epoch (2001) – When a bizarre monolith that’s apparently been buried in the earth for four billions years decides to resurface in Bhutan and heal everyone in the surrounding vicinity, the US government (by invitation) sends a team to examine it, consisting of a bunch of army grunts, the requisite Pretty Lady Scientist, and a…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
A couple for sale on my Etsy page… …and the rest directly from my sketchbook.
Movies Seen Recently: Hard Cash, War, Supercop
Hard Cash (2002) – Christian Slater is clever thief who spends a couple of years in the pen and gets out wondering what to do. Val Kilmer is a dirty FBI agent who just happens to use the same betting office to launder his marked currency that Slater and his team hit in a polished…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
One available in my Etsy store… …and the rest direct from my sketchbook:
Once you’re in…
Why? Why are the stupid little ideological battlegrounds of the cultural wars important to anyone? Why does it matter if someone says that a born-with-a-penis man can trump biology simply by saying he’s a woman, and the only acceptable response is to acknowledge that poor person’s “reality” and behave as if the demonstrably false were…
Movies Seen Recently: Lost Soul, The Kingdom, Kahaani
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) – whenever I watch documentaries about the troubled origins of some famously cursed production, I am amazed anew that studio movies are EVER produced — there are just so many egos and “sensibilities” pulling in mutually exclusive directions that having a watchable…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
A couple that are now for sale in my Etsy store (yes, that’s Darkseid): …and the rest directly from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: They, Conan the Barbarian, Horror Rises From the Tomb
Wes Craven Presents: They (2002) – Gee, Craven lending his name (and no other input) to a horror movie about bad dreams? Boy, what are the odds? In this case, the bad dreams are actually “night terrors” (they’re a distinct thing, look it up), which psychology student Julia had in her childhood, along with some…