by christophermwalsh | May 25, 2008 | General Awesomeness, Movies, Reading
The next six to twelve months look promising, and not only because I am starting school in the fall, or because the Bush presidency ends in January. (Unless McCain wins — then we’re stuck in a same-shit-different-President situation. But I’m trying to stay...
by christophermwalsh | Apr 2, 2008 | Atheism, Reading
I had to read them, didn’t I? After all, I do yammer on about being an atheist, so obviously that meant I would have to read Philip Pullman’s trilogy. It’s a bedtime story for atheists everywhere! Right?Well, no, not so much.Mr. Pullman may well be...
by christophermwalsh | Mar 18, 2008 | Moments of Silence, Reading
I have had many favorite authors. They never fall out of favor; new writers get added to the ranks of the elite. I don’t rank them in any particular order, and I lost count years ago. But I will always remember which one of them came first.I saw 2001: A Space...
by christophermwalsh | Jan 9, 2008 | Reading
If ever you are in the mood to take a literary punch to the solar plexus, you might give Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road a try. I mean that in the best possible way. I just finished it in a thirty-six hour reading marathon, and I can’t...
by christophermwalsh | Sep 17, 2007 | Moments of Silence, Reading
…and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. The wind...
by christophermwalsh | Aug 12, 2007 | Reading
I posted this review on Amazon.com, but I thought I’d reprint it here because I’d like to get the word out about this book. David Blixt was the fight director for the stage version of A Clockwork Orange I was in just before I got married. He’s a cool...
