1. “Do you remember LiveJournal? It was an essential part of my teenage identity.“ I wasn’t on LiveJournal (though I read the journals of friends there), but this definitely describes the experience of blogging in the years before social media … Continue reading
Well, to start, who is Thomas Carnacki? Thomas Carnacki was a supernatural detective, in stories written by William Hope Hodgson in the early 20th century. Carnacki himself was not supernatural (or, as he would have said “ab-natural”) — he just … Continue reading
I’ve written before about my idea of how to best adapt a book into a movie: throw out the book and make a good movie (as Howard Hawks did, for example, when adapting To Have and Have Not, a mediocre … Continue reading
This blog post does have a point, but it may take me a little while to get there, so if you get impatient, you can go down to the bold heading that says “The Point.” In a recent article in … Continue reading
I was somewhat interested when I read this: “Can Bullet Journaling Save You?” I remembered that Maggie, over at Maggie Madly Writing wrote about bullet journals a while back. So, I read the New Yorker article in that casual way … Continue reading
When I was married — a very long time ago — my wife and I would sometimes check out new TV shows, usually sitcoms. Mostly we didn’t care for them, but occasionally there was a new show that we’d think … Continue reading