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Blake M. Petit

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Blake M. Petit is a writer, columnist, reviewer, podcaster, actor, director, and teacher from Ama, Louisiana. He is the author of several novels, short stories and nonfiction examinations of geek culture available both in print and in eBook form. His original stage play, The 3-D Radio Show, was produced in 2004 and again in 2016. In a former life as a newspaper editor, his weekly Think About It column won the Louisiana Press Association Award for best column in 2001. In his free time, he teaches high school English, which at the moment pays better than the rest of his more impressive-sounding endeavors put together.

Blake lives in Ama, Louisiana, with his remarkably understanding wife, Erin, their son, and a sizable army of action figures, s
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Geek Punditry #194: Can We Just Let Bad Guys Be Bad?

Item #295 on the list of “what are people on the internet in an uproar about THIS week?” is East of Eden, the new Netflix miniseries adapting the classic John Steinbeck novel, which is coming under fire for following along with a rather sizable trend in modern fiction: making the villain less…y’know…villain-y. 

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Average rating: 3.85 · 746 ratings · 49 reviews · 18 distinct works
Other People's Heroes

3.81 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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The Restless Dead of Siegel...

3.63 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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The Pyrite War (The World o...

4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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The Ghost of Simon Tower (T...

3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Associated Pressure (The He...

3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013
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A Long November and Other T...

3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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The Beginner

3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Opening Night of the Dead

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Lucky Penny (The World of S...

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“I don’t know what’s worse, your stupidity or your low opinion of me.”
― Blake M. Petit, Other People's Heroes
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“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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