What’s up, guys? I haven’t posted in a while, and today’s my 30th birthday, so…obligatory birthday post? Frankly, I don’t like nor care for these “omg my 20s are over” porn blogs. One solar cycle passed between August 2 and 3rd. Nothing magical happened in this random spot in the Milky Way that made me…
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Jim Morrison: Breaking Free from the Greatest Generation
“Break on through to the other side … Break on through to the other side!” snarled Jim Morrison on the first track of The Doors’ 1967 debut album. Morrison’s musical existence revolved around spirituality and enlightenment. The band’s name came from Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, a memoir detailing psychedelic experiences. Morrison was often…
The Terminator: A Sci-Fi Story’s Beautiful Execution
James Cameron had a fever-induced dream one night in 1982. Nay, a nightmare. It could’ve been a lack of sleep over his involvement in Piranhas II, who knows? But James Cameron had something of a Biblical revelation one night. He was struck with a vision of a robot traveling through time to assassinate him. This…
John DeLorean: Ayn Rand, Howard Roark, and False Objectivist Idols
You guys know about the DeLorean, right? I mean, you know about the DeLorean outside the context of Back to the Future, right? There was a guy who actually designed that thing. You knew about that … right? Wait, you didn’t? You thought it was some obscure gull-wing car in a Boomer-era blockbuster?! Hey, if…
House of Prayer: Anna Young’s Desecration of Motherhood
The COVID-19 pandemic claimed Anna Young’s life on March 31, 2021. Not even four prison walls could keep her safe from the virus. If you’re a person of faith, you’ll say this was God’s judgment. If you adhere to science, you’ll say it was pure happenstance. After all, over a million have succumbed to the…