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 I was delighted to find a post from the past few years that had started thinking in the direction I was going.  Here was my "original...

{ Warning: Spoilers ahead!} I 'just' finished Dark Matter , Season 1 on Apple TV+* and I think it might be my strongest television r...

There was once a place on the erstwhile internet called "Seen Reading" (which seems now to have become a book , because, sure, I g...

Probably your favorite bartender / real estate magnate returns ( The Quarry , 2023) in an interweaving blend of eras and narratives. Almost ...

  As I was finishing with the last of Walter Benjamin’s 1933 writings (the last was “Experience and Poverty”, which is about, among other th...

 I've just finished an obscure essay of Walter Benjamin's about art history, and approaches to the study of art (but also the study ...

 For the past 45 years (or so - no reason to take a specific measurement on it all...), we in America (and, because of the US's soft imp...

 Writing fiction is a thankless endeavor - I think - really any writing at all,,, putting words out there in the world for others to read an...

I have undertaken A Song of Ice and Fire  (now that I'm driving most nights I couldn't come up with any more excuses why not to star...

Earlier this year (about a month or so before squirrel* {BS}), I started again to read works by one of my top two "favorite" ^ wri...

 I am fairly confident in saying that I am the only human in the universe to be reading (now or ever) " The House on Maple Street ...

  A pre-lunch snack (or perhaps it's elevensies), I have started in on Rage , which I am not sure I have ever read after first reading T...

Anticipatory plagiarism is a concept I used to struggle with - coming up with a brilliant idea only to come to realize that someone else ha...

It started with my damn Apple news feed...  An article about Ready Player One , that i did not need to read.  But, it had the promise of cl...

I logged 2400 miles of American roads, 14 hours of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , 3 full Brewers game broadcasts (all the enemy radi...

I. Preamble - This isn't a review - rather an overall critical analysis of ueber-narrative.  I've recently been on a mission to w...