Sometimes a person falls out of favour with their circle of friends, and sometimes they find a way back into social graces. Timing, humility, and quality of interaction all play into this result. If you were to travel back in time to the mid-nineteen eighties, you wouldn’t have though much of The Batman. He wasn’t…
Folk music has a soothing nature to it, it feels like clean soap and a warm basin full of water, like a brown bottle of beer dropped on a hard wood floor, like a summer dress brushing against the wheat fields. You know what they say right? Music can sooth even the savage beast, and…
You know that saying the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree? I was never a big fan of it myself, because when I was growing up I wanted to be my own man, with my own ideas; I didn’t want to bogged down by tradition and duplication. The problem with this attitude though…
The most interesting thing for many a youth is finding that coveted summer album they can play for the months ahead and be the cool kid, who knows what’s up. Thankfully I can count myself among that crowd this summer. I may be giving away the results of this week’s album review a tad early,…
Let’s be frank. Yes frank, not Sally, not Tommy, not Mary, or Sue, but frank. Frankly, I have enjoyed films most of my life, and the semi-indulgent nature of earning the knowledge associated with industry names, terms, and sitting through repeated viewings of films so that I can quote them, and call up details is…
Why are we so damn fascinated by Vikings? Their scandinavian hair cuts, combinations of metal, leather, and wood do depict a very specific aesthetic, don’t they dear readers? Initially thought of as barbarians who dabbled in piracy, thuggery, and nomadic culture, we’ve slowly learned that they carried a unique culture and, though I cringe to…
I’ve never truly experienced homesickness. In all of the vacations I’ve taken, roadtrips I’ve been on, and visits with friends and family, I’ve only ever been away for a couple weeks at most. That true sense of longing has never set in. And so it’s difficult for me to understand what it feels like to…
I didn’t want to leave him behind, but I knew it was time. It was for the best. Sometimes that’s what happens though. You lose a friend, you say goodbye in your head, and you walk away. But that doesn’t mean your feelings won’t betray you and leaving you hurting, sometimes aching like a bad…
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 was no laughing matter. A lot of people lost their jobs, homes, and hope because of the short-sided greed of those in much higher positions of wealth. It threatened the potential collapse of the largest financial banks, which some feared would send us into a new dark ages, and was…
Whatever happened to experimenting? From the time we are children to our early years as adults, we are constantly experimenting to figure out how life works and where our place in it is. The sciences seem to have taken hold of this idea and kept it for themselves, but the reality is that experimentation belongs…