Originally published on Facebook 28 August 2015. For most of us, our heroes reflect our aspirations. Not the other way around. Oh, sure, we are capable of being influenced by iconic figures, …but in many cases, we select those icons by what our aspirations already are – even if they’re not aspirations we’re capable of […]
Look, I’m going to explain this in terms you might be able to understand. I like chocolate cake just fine. I think chocolate cake is one of the things that makes life worth living. As a fat guy, I not only return to chocolate cake more often than is healthy for me, but can actually […]
On the subject of Lovecraft, to which we keep returning: My own take is that he was supremely talented at describing dread and disgust and horrifically deficient in describing anything else; his admitted and proud disinterest in people as subjects of fiction shows in his work and renders the whole remote and soulless. His racism, […]