Recently I posted briefly about my trip through Philip K. Dick's gnostic psychosis. Being a book the insanity on offer there could only do something for the reader if he brings his own dose of insanity to the table (for one, committing to finishing it). Well last weekend I was exposed to something exponentially more irrational (trans-rational?) in ( Read more... )

It isn't often that I choose to sit through a movie, and even rarer for me to bother writing about one. This weekend I saw Idiocracy, a film so good I watched it three times over. This movie was, for political reasons obvious once you have watched it, unceremoniously dumped by FOX with no real theatrical release, without any marketing, and ( Read more... )

I find almost every cultural product I come across insipid. I am not sure where this critical attitude stems from at this point. My snobbery made some sense years ago at the start of my college career. Back then I believed I was something special and somehow smarter than the average bear. As such I had to turn my nose up at anything that did not ( Read more... )

When I was younger I was a fan of a book called A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin. It was not a terribly astounding piece of literature or anything, just a young adult kind of tale about a boy named Ged who, in typical fantasy fashion, is destined to be the greatest wizard in his world. I remember what I liked was the setting, the ( Read more... )