You’re reading a novel. Great, good, indifferent; in any event, one that provides enough incentive to keep reading. And then you hit the chapter where the author lost track of what he was doing. This is not to be confused with the mere interesting controlled digression, like a red herring character in a murder mystery, […]
Originally published on Facebook. The emptiest goddamned thing you can say about any work of art is, “It’s over-rated.” This is a statement often dropped into a conversation like a turd, sometimes without any elaboration: just those two words, which are modified if at all only with the word “really.” These thoughts are prompted by […]
Origingally pulished on Facebook in 2015. My mind just drew an interesting mental parallel between the Lovecraftian protagonist exposed to some cosmic terror so vast that it drives him mad, and the crusader who claims to have injured by exposure to offensive language in fiction, or depictions of gay people on movies or television. The […]