insert_link blog Florida Report: Our City Beautiful "Lost 49 friends I'll never know, two weeks ago today." - Pearl Jam "Love Boat Captain" (slightly modified) Mass shootings have become so commonplace in America that I thought I was starting to become numb. Sure, with each Aurora and Sandy Hook, I would always feel bad and then frustrated that these keep occuring, but the reality of it all never set it. Metropolitan white male privilege, I guess. When the shootings happened in Paris last year, I mourned, but […] todayJune 30, 2016 3
insert_link 1 blog Ender’s Shame SPOILER FREE. (mostly) Earlier this month, the Ender's Game movie hit theaters. I've only been waiting to see this for about 10 years, while many fans have been waiting much, much longer. The author, Orson Scott Card, has always been extremely, er -- anal -- about maintaining creative control over his story. From what I've heard, it's paid off. A friend and fellow fan said that it was "really good," (obviously a man of letters) adding, though, that it left out […] todayNovember 18, 2013 2141 1