You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. — Stanley Kubrick

Covering the sub-genres Apocalyptic , Military , Social , Time Travel , and Space Western —through those of Hard and Soft SF, as well as...

Elizabeth M. Crumpler —a 25-year-old, Sarah Palin-lovin-republican, who recently lost two-stone and got married; and is a conservative-chris...

          My parent's living room on Tanglewood Drive had two regular-size bedroom windows instead of a picture window.  When Mom close...

A film is—or should be—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind t...

As I walked through the open doorway of Theodore-call-me-Ted’s office, he cut his eyes at me (sufficient for intuitive Laban-shape-movement ...

The amount of time I've spent in each country increases-decreases on a diagonal axis from top left to bottom right (mouse-over for count...

For the last few months I dissected the act of viewing film trailers as a viable means of determining a film's worth (at first-run ticke...

Although I never wore a blood chit on my uniform, I confess to having an eerie interest in the silk documents containing declarative statem...

I find absolutely everything about this television show hilarious genius. Comedic wunderkinds of the first order, they are - sir - and an...

(To view the circles clearly, just look at your screen from an edge, or an extreme oblique angle) Devote today to something so daring even y...

I'm rarely aware of current events until they're brought to my attention in a hey did you hear about... kind-of-way. I have, howev...

This year's hiking season is officially over for Zonkey and I. We completed some great hikes this year—a total of thirteen. Zonk hiked...

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. — Oprah Winfrey

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. — Oprah Winfrey

Dearest Crazy, You say you've read one of my posts or this , that or even a mass market other thing or two , and now you actually...

Conversation between two female bookstore clerks: That's disturbing. Just disturbing. I knooow. Can you imagine? You should call and c...

My parents were the Howard-n-Marion-Cunningham of the neighborhood. They based their parenting ground rules on how something affected their...

It is now possible ( thank you Google Earth ) to collect and compile footprint-shots of every place one's ever lived. This collage refl...

Everyone has their own favorites and nobody shares the same ten (and what a borin place it'd be if t'were). I hope to "discove...

I've previously discussed my desire for an ability to discern good-bad-or-ugly films from their previews. Last month, I compiled an ...

I am inclined to think this man's ear/mouth-coordination work much-in-the-same-way as my eye/hand. Into love and out again, thus I went,...

Last month, I challenged Driz —who's amazing prose can be read at Ex Movere —to provide me with some imagery I could use to refract and...