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Finally...got a full time teaching position. A blanket of serenity has fallen over me like a long-lost best friend. In all of my adult life, there's always been a crisis brewing in the background: lack of direction, unsupporting family, lack of money, dying father, intense internship, full year of unemployment and desperate job searching. It's ( Read more... )

I've completely lost interest in maintaining a blog as of late. I'm sorry. It's not you. It's me. It was the drugs. It was the booze. It was the swedish dwarves under my desk. But, until I can learn how to be a better poster again, you guys will have to settle for this. I'm not in the habit of posting links, but I just about died when I saw this.

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Everything comes to an end sooner or later. Today, I put my comic book legacy to rest.Three years ago, I met a guy named Doug. We had found a common interest in faith and, though very different from one another, enjoyed exploring the things that made us the same. Then we found out that we both grew up on comic books ( Read more... )

The history of the Spectre, my favorite misunderstood superhero


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Since it's almost Halloween...

The “A Nightmare on Elm Street” series has earned a lasting presence in our cultural memory, balancing our worst fears of vulnerability (we all need to let down our guard in order to sleep) with an almost comfortingly jovial murderer. While Fred Krueger is a being of absolute malevolence in the first film, he ( Read more... )

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