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Review: Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger than Fiction is a rare movie. It seems to break all the well-establish rules. But it doesn’t gloat about the way its breaking the rules. Instead it breaks them in a way that makes you wonder why there are rules in the first place. And why others have to break them so boldly and […]
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Review: The Greatest Salesman in the World
Spoiler Alert: If you plan to read this book, and are concerned about having the ending spoiled, don’t read this. I tell you how the story ends, although it’s not terribly relevant to the majority of the book. Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World was a book I found and read with little […]
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Retroview: The Little Prince
An explanation of what a Retroview is can be found here, though it should be pretty clear from this text. The first time I read The Little Prince, I think i was probably around 16. That’s pretty old for a book stereotypically for kids, but I’ve never believed in being held back because my parents […]
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Five Reasons that Unicorns are Better than Penguins
Penguins have been getting a lot of press lately. At least 300 movies about penguins to have come out in the last year, of which Surf’s Up is only the most recent. But do you know how many movies unicorns got? That’s right. Not a single movie about unicorns has been released recently, and this […]
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Review: The News from Lake Wobegon (Podcast)
First, you should probably know that beyond knowing who Garrison Keillor was, and having once or twice heard snippets of A Prairie Home Companion, I knew little before I decided to give this podcast a listen. It may also interest you that I’d never really liked NPR a lot, though I also didn’t hate it. […]
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On Dog Poop
I have a dog. His name is Lucky and he’s the size that strangers consistently say “what a cute puppy” when they see him. He’s at least seven people-years old. That’s 49 in dog years. To the extent that he understands the strangers, he doesn’t seem to care. You may be thinking that this is […]
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Doubts About the Working World
About a month ago, I graduated from university with a BA in History. To no one’s surprise, I am still unemployed. Six months prior to graduation, I couldn’t wait for it to arrive. Slogging through boring papers, tests, and classes, I looked so forward to being allowed out of the confines of the institution so […]
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PostSecret: Father’s Day
Today is Father’s Day. As is his custom, Frank Warren, PostSecret‘s curator, has posted a number of lovely and heart-breaking secrets from people all over the country. And though the site is not without it’s failings (most notably that secrets only stay up for a week), it’s consistently fascinating to read other people’s anonymously disclosed […]
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Dispatches from the Field: The Lost City
Dispatches is our ongoing series from our intrepid traveling reporter Steve Finch. This week, Steve comes face to face with… well, we’ll let him explain. A large team of historians, geographers, archaeologists, seismologists, cosmologists, astrologers, zoologists, and I believe a cardiologist as well, recently announced a truly startling discovery. That discovery, made by the team’s […]