A Game of Thrones… Ed Sheeran Didn’t Ruin Anything. Game of Thrones is Rooted in Popular Music 23 Jul 201718 Sep 2022 Game of Thrones is Not Sacred. It’s Grateful Dead Fan Fiction The first episode of the seventh season of HBO’s Game of Thrones sparked a multitude of reactions, but perhaps…
#MoonLandingDay… Ten Ways to Celebrate #MoonLandingDay and Moon Landing Week 2017 16 Jul 2017 The big week is here: Moon Landing Week! Or at least, it eventually will be known as Moon Landing Week. For now, we know that this upcoming Thursday (July 20th)…
#JeffGoldblumDay… How to Celebrate The Moonborn and #MoonLandingDay at the Same Time 16 Jul 2017 One of America's most beloved unofficial holidays is almost here. No, not Jeff Goldblum Day. Something almost as cool: Moon Landing Day. This upcoming Thursday, July 20th, is the 48th…
Batman… Sick of Reboots, Sequels, and Extended Universes? Blame Classic Literature 25 Jun 20173 Nov 2021 We find ourselves in the midst of another summer and with it, an endless brigade of sequels, prequels, reboots, requels, and the ongoing march of extended cinematic universes. A new…
Books… Twelve Ways to Get Hyped for Fargo’s Third Season 30 Mar 20171 Apr 2017 The trailers are out for the third season of Fargo and there isn't much more to say about them than "okay then." As in, it looks good. Pretty darn good.…
2016… The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero 22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022 How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
Books… Stop Misquoting Leonard Cohen and Ernest Hemingway. Start Listening and Reading. 12 Jan 20178 Feb 2023 Consider the misquote. It lies in that same realm as citing fake news or reading only the headline. Misquoting is certainly nothing new, but the internet allows a fake quote to be…
Books… Why This Website Displays No Ads 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 You may wonder—or perhaps you may not—why this blog displays no ads. Nothing encouraging you to go to other sites, nothing in this margins, nothing at the bottom of the…
Books… Twelve Questions and Answers About The Moonborn (with No Spoilers) 19 Nov 201620 Nov 2016 I've received a number of questions about The Moonborn: or, Moby-Dick on the Moon, my novel that came out on Monday, November 14th. While I love getting questions about it,…
Bale… The 10 Best Moby-Dick Homages, Adaptations, and Celebrations 14 Nov 20167 May 2018 Happy Birthday, Moby-Dick! Not the whale, but the book. 165 years ago today, Herman Melville's epic novel was published in America for the first time. (A different version of it…