2009-04-26 14:00
If you have been reading my blog over the past year or so, you are aware that I have had more than a passing fascination with the battles in the American courts over the teaching of Intellig… Read More
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2009-04-19 20:54
Before I delve into my thoughts on this book, I'd like to apologize for the long delay since my last post. This was going to be my year of blogging weekly. Ah well. My wife and I had our fir… Read More
2009-02-08 14:00
It is always interesting when an artist of Paul McCartney's stature and accomplishment goes on a late career roll. Often, a string of records that would have been heralded as a watershed per… Read More
2009-02-01 14:00
When I was a kid, even before I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a short story writer. Not an author or the more generic title of "writer," but specifically a short story writer. As a… Read More
2009-01-31 17:22
The first time I ever heard The Derek Trucks Band was a few summers ago when I saw them open for the Allman Brothers Band at the Plain Dealer Pavillion in Cleveland, Ohio. They were already… Read More
2009-01-18 14:00
At the beginning of 2008, I decided that I wanted to write more and I thought that this blog would be as good a place as any to get that ball rolling. Because I've always loved to read, it m… Read More
2009-01-01 00:34
For those who are not familiar with it, 33 1/3 is a series of short books published by Continuum. Each book focuses on a different rock album. The subject of this book is, you guessed it, Bl… Read More
2008-12-08 05:01
This is a book that I probably would've never picked up on my own but, Amazon offered it briefly as a free download so, I decided to check it out. It is a fairly standard serial killer thril… Read More
2008-11-30 17:13
Like most people, I first read Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" in high school. It was one of four books that we read in a class called "20th Century Literature." For most of the class, it'… Read More
2008-11-03 14:11
I spent yesterday afternoon hanging around on the mall in downtown Cleveland, waiting to hear Barack Obama speak. Four years ago, I spent most of the night before the election in the same pl… Read More
2008-10-27 05:01
Matthew Chapman is a screenwriter who also happens to be the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin. In this, his first book, he set out to write about the legendary Scopes Monkey Trial, whi… Read More
2008-10-20 05:01
I don't know if it's a new thing but, there seems to be a developing genre of authors who's focus is on their own lives, which have been tortured by mental illness and any number of substanc… Read More
2008-10-13 05:01
I just realized that I am WAY behind on my goal of writing about all of the books that I read this year. I actually finished this book back in August, have read two more since and am almost… Read More
2008-09-08 05:00
I am excited to announce a new blog that I will be writing with my friend John Bertosa. For as long as I've known him, I've thought of John as my "conservative friend." Not that I only have… Read More
2008-09-05 15:07
A friend and I recently decided to compile our lists of Top 10 Records of All Time which is, sadly, not even the geekiest thing that I've ever done. Anyway, since I spent the last month list… Read More
2008-07-31 17:10
When I heard that the former White House press secretary had written a "tell all" book on his years with the Bush administration, I was interested in much the same way that rush hour drivers… Read More
2008-07-10 18:47
Some of my favorite comic books are the horror anthology comics published by EC Comics in the 1950's. This book focuses on that era of comics and specifically on how a wave of hysteria built… Read More
2008-05-05 17:26
I don't know if ten books in four months is anything to brag about but, I feel good that I've read that many and actually kept up with writing about them here. You may have noticed that I wr… Read More
2008-05-05 17:11
This book was originally serialized in Azimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which is where I read it. Instead of reading it in the four monthly installments, I waited until all four issues had… Read More
2008-05-04 17:35
Dismayed by the rapid decrease of reading, writing and intelligent discourse in America, Susan Jacoby has crafted an engaging, at times humorous, often depressing and always thought provokin… Read More
2008-04-30 04:43
Outside the circles of serious science fiction fans, Philip K. Dick is mostly known as the author of the books that the movies Blade Runner and Minority Report were based on. Science fiction… Read More
2008-03-26 17:49
Impulse records, the final and perhaps definitive, record label of John Coltrane, was the premier jazz record label from the late fifties through the late sixties. This carefully researched… Read More
2008-03-08 02:23
This book popped up on my Amazon recomendations, probably as a result of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." It is the story of the 2005 Dover, PA Intelligent Design trial and, interestingl… Read More
2008-02-27 23:23
Harry Dresden, the central character of sci-fi/fantasy author Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, is a sort of wizard for hire/private detective. The concept sounds a little silly but Butche… Read More
2008-02-14 18:51
If you are unfamiliar with Richard Dawkins, he is a fairly famous evolutionary biologist and an even more famous atheist. The God Delusion is his complex inquiry into the existence of God.I… Read More
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