Having reached that point in my life where a mid-life crisis is imminent, I have been giving the matter some thought. As teenagers, we long for adulthood and the freedoms we believe it will bring. In our 20s we believe we have arrived. We are all grown up now. We can legally get shit-faced and [...]

Okay, so I haven’t exactly been following the pattern I tried to establish where I would post a little blurb about each book I was reading as I finished it. I’ve finished both Krondor: The Assassins and Krondor: Tear of the Gods with narry a word about either. Indeed, much as a “direct to DVD” [...]

…the Academy generally frowns on gays playing gays—it’s not really acting, after all. Though Sir Ian McKellen broke the curse in 1999 with a Best Actor nomination for Gods and Monsters, actual trophies have been reserved for “courageous” straights playing gay, like William Hurt, Tom Hanks, Hilary Swank, Charlise Theron, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (as [...]

Good As You: Another ‘ex-gay’ non-success story
I did the ex-gay thing for a while, the unofficial Mormon version, at least. The great motivator for men and women who seek out this path is fear of Divine Retribution. They buy into the snake oil that religion is selling because they believe that God will punish them [...]

I actually finished this book a while back and am half way through Krondor: The Assassins. Finding the time to update the blog has been problematic lately. Some good things are keeping me busy. Some mundane things. The major thing sucking up time the past week has been Pride, but I’ll post more about that [...]