I have a strange relationship with the fantasy genre. From roughly age 10-13, my literary tastes tended toward books with barbarians on the cover. I’d always been a voracious reader, but something just clicked when I worked my way through the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander and almost without meaning too, I found myself mired [...]
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Mistress Internet reveals her hidden delights in response to my tender ministrations: Video games can never be art – Roger Ebert’s Journal Filed Under:[art aesthetics criticism games videogames ebert ] The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books : The New Yorker Thoughtful article about the coming War. Filed Under:[books amazon apple publishing ]
Reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan made me think more about food than I ever have before. For something so fundamental to human existence, it’s amazing how little thought I give to the stuff on the end of my fork (or spoon). I’m a large man and I can’t deny that my appetite is [...]
It’s summertime, and just because I’m working for a living doesn’t mean that my life starts at 9:00 and ends at 5:00. I have decided that even though I am a temporary wage slave, I should set goals to accomplish before school starts back up at the end of August. Sadly, this will (probably) be [...]