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 Song of Ice and Fire… Six Months of Search Terms: Wolverine, His Beard, and The Strange Searches That Lead People Here 2 Jul 20152 Jul 2015 A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called The Maramduke Fart Paradox, in which I discussed the strange search engine terms that lead people to this website. Among…
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 201218 Oct 2014 There is a new meme out there (well, perhaps it's not new, but it is all over Facebook.) It encourages people to use the Oxford Comma. And while I don't…
Bale… The Tea Party Presents: Midnight in Boston 5 Jul 201126 Sep 2012 While the last post on here was entirely positive and flattering of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, I have to address what some regard as that film's major shortcoming, which…
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,…