Yesterday going through e-mail I came across a call for submissions to a Sherlock Holmes collection of scholarly ponderings, satire, and pasticherie. I’m not much for satire, I’ve written a few pastiches in my time, and decided, on a lark, to e-mail back the editor with a slightly silly idea for a scholarly pondering, aContinue reading “On Sherlockian Ponderings”
Strange Crossover
Wouldn’t it be grand if Hermione Grainger found a copy of the Necronomicon in the Hogwarts library?
A Voice From the Past
I turned on Instant Messenger tonight, and much to my surprise saw a name active on the Buddy List I hadn’t seen online in a very long time. My best friend’s ex-girlfriend. The last time I saw her was five years ago today. It was in Annapolis. It was a heavy snowstorm building to aContinue reading “A Voice From the Past”
Sunday Morning
The forecasted winter storm came and brought nothing but rain. Good news for the grocery stores–even the rumor of snow clears out their stocks–but bad news for other sectors of the retail community. Last night, at eight-thirty, the mall down the street was a ghost town and I might have been one of a dozenContinue reading “Sunday Morning”
Reflections
Five years, today. Five. Years. What a span of time. (If this is uncharacteristically cryptic, pay this no mind. Explanations won’t follow.)
More Wisdom from the Elizabethan Age
Let’s turn back the clock, shall we, to 1661. Lord Edmund Blackadder, favorite of Queen Elizabeth I said famously: If you play straight with me you’ll find me a considerate employer. But cross me, and you’ll soon discover that under this playful, boyish exterior beats the heart of a ruthless, sadistic maniac. Brings a tearContinue reading “More Wisdom from the Elizabethan Age”
The Social Calendar
My quest for a life outside work continues. The other night at Barnes & Noble I picked up one of their activity flyers as per my wont, but this may have been the first time I’ve really looked at what they had on the schedule. At the end of February–last Monday of the month, toContinue reading “The Social Calendar”
AVP: The Alternate Beginning
Alien versus Predator‘s DVD package proudly proclaims on its front, “With an Alternate Beginning never shown in theaters!” Okay. Don’t get excited. The alternate beginning is a roughly one-minute long pre-credits teaser that shows what happened the last time the Predators visited their Antarctic hunting grounds. I thought it would have been in the deletedContinue reading “AVP: The Alternate Beginning”
Le Morte d’Arthur
Yesterday I gave one of my employees a copy of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. A week before she and I had talked about last summer’s King Arthur film starring Clive Owen and Ioan Gruffudd. She had seen the film recently–as had I–and her boyfriend needed to explain to her who some of theContinue reading “Le Morte d’Arthur”
Philosophy Moment
A friend and I were talking today about a mutual acquaintance, and she brought up some of the curve balls life had thrown his way, some of the mistakes he had made. She felt unsure as to whether or not she should bring them up, because I might think less of him down the road.Continue reading “Philosophy Moment”