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Well… we have a pronoun

Rasa and I have a mixed household. Aside from coming from two different generations and two different cultures with two different languages, we also have mixed views on social media. For myself, I’m fairly active on Facebook and Instagram and Goodreads among others. I have no problem with letting the world know where I am […]

Super Friends?

In honor of Captain America: Civil War opening next week #TeamCap

DAVID • Think: The Riot of Spring

One of the great things about my job is I get to learn all sorts of new things. Had no idea that Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” was so controversial when it was first produced. What? You didn’t know either? Well read my latest David article to find out what all the fuss was about! Celebrating […]

Wedding

Well, it happened. After all the trouble we went through to get all the proper paperwork and everything, on Saturday the 23rd of April, we pulled it off and we are now, officially, hitched. The day itself was actually pretty easy. The week before we’d found a restaurant nearby which seemed to be a nice place […]

Reviews: Spiders and Dreams and Rocket Ships

Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Okay, so I’m a Tim Powers fan. I will read everything the man writes and eagerly anticipate the next one. That said, this isn’t the book to start with. The plot, as Powersian as ever, involves a brother and sister who stand to inherit […]

To be or not to be?

JACK KIRBY: Hero worship

Gavin over at Zen Pencils takes great, inspirational quotes and then draws fabulous cartoons to illustrate them. While I’ve been a long time fan, this is the first time I’m sharing one. I think this, a quote by the great Jack Kirby is important for a number of reasons. But don’t take my word for it. […]

Superheroes on World Screens

So a little while back I wrote a nice review of this book. You should check it out. (The review, not the book, the book is expensive and unless you’re doing cinema studies, it’s not worth it – but the review is really well written!)

Schrödingers Child

Don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but we’re gonna have a baby soon. I know, big surprise, right? What’s been surprising to me is my own reaction to this whole baby thing. Right now, like that infamous cat, the child exists in a quantum state. It is neither here, nor non-existent. But more importantly, the possibilities […]

Short reviews

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo My rating: 5 of 5 stars Interestingly, I’d never actually read this book. I knew the story, of course. Everyone knows the story. The story is about Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and how Esmerelda, the young gypsy, is the only person […]