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It feels a little silly to talk about time travel fear in the context of Back to the Future.  True enough, it gets pretty tense at times when Marty is attempting to set things right and keep himself and his siblings corporeal, but there is alwa…

I am not a huge sports fan.  I do like going to a baseball game now and then, but I don’t prefer any certain team.  If I’m honest, I find a high school game just as exciting as an MLB game.  When it comes to other sports, …

I spent around seven years working as a freelance editor/proofreader for a fairly large publisher of romance novels.  I hit all the subgenres—Regency, contemporary, sweet, erotic, and of course, paranormal.  It was a fun job for some…

As a young teen, the movie Defending Your Life provided my curious mind with an incredibly imaginative idea as to what lay ahead in the afterlife, couched in the familiar form of satirical courtroom drama reminiscent of my favorite TV sitcom at the …

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”   Mad Max: Fury Road (and all the other Mad Max films for that matter) belong …

The first time that I clapped eyes on Raising Arizona I was 11, and I was baffled.  My humor had not evolved beyond appreciation of more obvious comedy, and the idea of an action movie where the hero gets beat up and doesn’t deliver venge…