What is Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining really about? The Holocaust? Injustice to Native Americans? The faking of the Moon Landing? Countless hidden sexual jokes? Room 237 is a film where a number of people with way too much time on their hands spend endless hours watching and re-watching The Shining looking for clues as to it’s real meaning. When I grew up I pretty much liked all movies. An Abbott & Costello feature was right up there with Gone With The Wind as far as I was concerned. At some point I read a book called The Key by James…
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Real Books and eBooks
I remember the good old days of vinyl LPs and what a pain in the neck those big slabs of plastic were. I was one of the first on board with digital music, I’ve never been one of those people that think a good LP sounds better than a good mp3. In this case, the delivery method was improved. With books, well, I’m not so sure. I don’t mind reading blogs, most of them are pretty short. Reading full length books is another story. To be fair, I don’t own a Kindle or a Nook or an Ipad-but laptops and…
Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
I first read Man Without a Country not long after it came out in 2005 and I still totally agree with everything Kurt has to say. Kurt was a humanist who had the radical idea that war was bad, over population was bad, The Bushes-Chaneys-Rumsfelds of the world were bad, and that the idea that The Free Market will self correct and fix everything is total bullshit. My kind of a guy. Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven now, along with Issac Asimov. Just kidding. They were both famous atheists who prefered the rational to the fantastical, except for their writing.…