Things are Nooking up

So I’m thirty now. I guess being worried about turning thirty is less of a guy thing; either that or I am somehow immune to an otherwise universal damngiving regarding this particular milestone. It may be a materialistic and shallow way to look at it, but it helps to have received some rather awesome birthday [...]

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Laodicean musings

Well, perhaps musings re: “Laodicean”, since neither meaning of the word applies to me. I have to congratulate 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar for winning this, especially with an obscure word that I didn’t know the meaning of until I was into my 20s. The word in question makes me wonder, though, about the inclusion of such [...]

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New Moon has risen, and set

OK, fine, I give in, I admit it. I am enjoying the Twilight series. They’re not likely to win the Nobel Prize for literature any time soon, but they’re worth taking the time for. Based on what I am hearing (much of which has to do with a comparative preference for forcibly removing and eating [...]

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A vampire?! Let me check my notes…

This was a relatively recent bookstore find: While it may be a handy-dandy resource when researching Eastern European folklore, or perhaps offer some insights into the deeper meanings of Twilight or Buffy… this title seems a little misleading. Here is my revised Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vampires: If you see one coming toward you, run [...]

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De Re Crepusculari

I’d been happily ignorant of the Twilight books for a long time, indeed enough so that when YA literary fandom began hyping the release of Breaking Dawn with a fervor second only to the Harry Potter firestorms, my only thought on the matter was “who the hell is Stephenie Meyer?”. The subsequent movie posters did [...]

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In Memoriam: Robert Jordan

At the wake the mourners gathered, kings and philosophers, poets and artists and the greatest of them raised his glass to the dear departed. He called for a jester to play a song, but no music but sour could sound. He called for a meal and wine and ale but all tasted of nothing. He [...]

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