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…
Bale… The Best Moby-Dick Homages, Adaptations, and Celebrations 14 Nov 20166 May 2023 Note: this article has been updated since it was first published. Happy Birthday, Moby-Dick! Not the whale, but the book. 165 years ago today, Herman Melville's epic novel was published…
Books… Why Everyone Should Calm Down and Take Vonnegut’s Approach to Talking about Big Game Hunting 30 Jul 201526 Sep 2016 People love to shame these days. They also love to shame the shamers. And with the tendency for the internet to get hysterical about anything that seems worthy of hysteria,…
Books… Six Things Hemingway Never Said 10 Jul 201512 Jan 2017 The internet loves a good quote. Trouble is, the internet rarely cares if the quote was said by the person whose name follows it. It also rarely cares if the…
A Game of Thrones… The Snow Also Rises 2: Jon Snows of Kilimanjaro 21 Oct 20144 Nov 2014 Note: This is a follow-up to The Snow Also Rises, the previous post on this blog. Read that before you read this. During a recent Q&A, one of the…
A Game of Thrones… The Snow Also Rises: Thoughts Regarding Ned Stark, Jon Snow, and Jake Barnes 17 Oct 201428 Oct 2014 Note: The following contains "spoilers" for the novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Some of these spoilers are based on details that did not make it…
Hemingway… Hemingway Against The Oxford Comma 28 Jan 201214 Mar 2023 There is a new meme out there (well, perhaps it's not new, but it is all over Facebook.) This meme encourages people to use the Oxford Comma. And while I…
Hemingway… 10 Things That Would Have Ruined Midnight in Paris 17 Jun 201125 Oct 2014 Do Not Read This Unless You've Seen Midnight in Paris. Why? Because this isn't a review of Midnight in Paris. It's a recap of why I liked it so much,…