The Most Quotable Movies

Chances are, if you’re celebrating Thanksgiving, you’ll also be watching a movie. If your house is like my house, you won’t need a movie. The movies will be quoted throughout Thanksgiving dinner. Mashed potatoes will be sculpted and someone will invariably say, “This means something.” Even if your house isn’t like mine, maybe later, after …

Square Eyes

Whatever you say about another person’s method of living is what you say about yourself. You impart more information about yourself in your censure of another than you do about the person you’re criticizing. Oddly enough, there are many in this world who know this. They know the fact of the matter is their own …

Recently Read: Arena by Karen Hancock

An amazing novel by Karen Hancock, Arena is like an allegory, a virtual reality adventure, and an exercise in dramatic suspense all rolled up into one. What amazes me most is this novel was not written in first person. I suppose I might stereotype female writers as always wanting to write in first person to …

Zombie Origins

As every child who has ever asked their momma knows, zombies come from spores. Spores are wicked, little gobs of dusty fuzz that cling to the following: the undersides of plants, chewed up gum on the sidewalk, dried up mushrooms, carbon dioxide molecules, political parties, anti-gender tweets, socks, and of course in the vapor of …