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"Disturbing data shows how often domestic violence turns deadly" PBS NewsHour 12/10/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  A connection has long been established between domestic violence and murder.&nb… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.Trigger Warning: This post discusses sexual violence.At the beginning of the year, author of Girls of Paper and Fire, Natasha Ngan, wrote a thread on Twit… Read More

CGMagazineJeff Schmidt Jordan Peele has quickly become one of the hottest names in horror cinema. After winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his debut film Get Out, he… Read More

CGMagazinePreston Dozsa The Shrouded Isle is that rare game where none of the choices a player can make are morally good. You are the leader of a cult intent on summoning an ancient god tha… Read More

My #RamdadanReadathon 2019 TBRThis post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.The #RamadanReadathon… Read More

It's important for parents to know firsthand the effect a poor night's rest has on children. Absence of rest can add to grouchiness, issues with consideration and learning, conduct issues, a… Read More

I was bought up in a church-going household, but despite a concerted effort in my early teens, following the death of my father, I couldn’t get my head around the concept of relig… Read More

Annie – Non-Fiction by Ellen Black – Caleb was a sweet boy, with black hair and freckles, whose left leg was in a brace, causing the other kids to taunt him without mercy… Read More

"Shields and Brooks on Biden’s 2020 launch, Trump stonewalling Congress" PBS NewsHour 4/26/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist Davi… Read More

CGMagazineZubi Khan The highly anticipated reveal for Gearbox’s Borderlands 3 is finally upon us. Readers below can get their first glimpse at the world premiere gameplay for the titl… Read More

"Remembering Oscar-nominated director John Singleton" PBS NewsHour 4/29/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Oscar-nominated film director John Singleton died Monday at age 51.  He was taken off l… Read More

International YA Translated into EnglishThis post contains affiliate links.One of my reading goals this year is to read more novels from other countries translated into English. I have only… Read More

"Let's Face it...rock n' roll is bigger than all of us." - Alan Freed    “Ahwoooooo!”  Across the Midwestern night, the airwaves carry the rowdy voice of disc… Read More

CGMagazineJoe DeClara Last week, possibly Game of Thrones’ most controversial episode saw Daenerys Targaryen make a dramatic heel turn from a strong liberator to a terrifying genocida… Read More

"Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported" PBS NewsHour 5/24/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  A recent series of murders of transgender victims is causing… Read More

The Miracle of Joey Ramone – Non-Fiction by Lee Gabay – U2 – Paul David Hewson – “The Miracle of Joey Ramone”After the unconventional release of the… Read More

The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. ChakrabortyPublished: 21st February 2019 | Publisher: HarperVoyager | Source: PublisherS. A. Chakraborty's WebsiteReturn to Daevabad in the spellbinding sequel… Read More

aka 'Tails of a Puppet Government'"Mass protests over Hong Kong extradition law turn violent" PBS NewsHour 6/12/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Protesters in Hong Kong are promising more mass demo… Read More

"How these grieving mothers seek to stop the cycle of violence" PBS NewsHour 6/10/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  A group of mothers whose children were murdered are taking their tragic stories to… Read More

CGMagazineBrendan Frye Throughout the 80’s there where countless horror franchises, yet few had the staying power of Child’s Play. Yes, it was campy and often, ridiculous, but s… Read More

CGMagazineLiam Ferguson Summer Games Done Quick 2019 was up and running yesterday, raising money for medical organization Doctors Without Borders. Beginning June 23rd at 12:30 PM EDT… Read More

This administration is just embarrassing.NO key-post of permanent Secretary of Defense since 2018!"Reports of domestic violence prompt Shanahan to step down" PBS NewsHour 6/18/2019… Read More

CGMagazineRemington Joseph Samurai Shodown is one of the few fighting game franchises that I’ve never spent much time with. Outside of seeing some of the more popular characte… Read More

Internment by Samira AhmedPublished: 19th March 2019 | Publisher: Atom | Cover Designer:  | Source: Publisher Samira Ahmed's WebsiteRebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying… Read More

"50 years after Stonewall, why so many LGBTQ people are ‘still grieving’" PBS NewsHour 6/25/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  During the era of 1969’s Stonewall Riots, police raids… Read More

"Marshall Plan?" Not even close.  And negotiated by Jared Kushner, what a joke.Again, this problem can only be solved by the people of Israel and Palestine tell their governments to s… Read More

CGMagazineRobert B. Marks I stopped playing Counter-Strike on September 11, 2001. The reason was simple – after witnessing a bona-fide terrorist attack on North American soil a… Read More

CGMagazineBrendan Frye Horror has always been a genre with which you can experiment and poke fun at the status quo. From films like Night of the Living Dead to Get Out, the genre is often u… Read More

My Personal Response to Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha NganThis post contains affiliate links.I received an eProof of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest… Read More

CGMagazineLisa Mior A devastating fire caused by an apparent arson attack on one of Japan’s most prominent animation studios, Kyoto Animation, has left 33 dead, and four still unaccou… Read More

Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre SullivanPublished: 13th June 2019 | Publisher: Hot Key Books | Cover Illustrator: Elsa Klever | Source: Publisher Deirdre Sullivan's Website… Read More

CGMagazineBrendan Frye While many horror movies will opt for bombastic blood and fear, there are a few that go for a minimalistic, surreal style, tackling the concept of fear with few words… Read More

My Most Anticipated YA Retellings From July - Dec 2019This post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest revie… Read More

How to Make Friends With the Dark by Kathleen GlasgowPublished: Rock the Boat | Publisher: 11th April 2019 | Cover Illustrator: Anders Røkkum | Cover Designer: Jennifer Heuer | Source… Read More

"David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart on Trump’s mass shooting response" PBS NewsHour 8/9/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jo… Read More

"How India’s revoking of autonomy for Kashmir could lead to increased violence" PBS NewsHour 8/8/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Government forces in riot gear are patrolling Kashmir, four d… Read More

"After El Paso and Dayton, what can be done to prevent similar mass shootings?" PBS NewsHour 8/5/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left more than… Read More

"El Paso shooting stuns tight-knit community that welcomes diversity" PBS NewsHour 8/5/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  At least 22 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El P… Read More

50 years ago today, The Woodstock Festival took place in White Lake, NY.  It was an event that transformed the youth culture and established the Music Festival template that continu… Read More

"Hong Kong demonstrations cool, but police, Beijing vow consequences" PBS NewsHour 8/14/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Although Hong Kong's airport is back up and running, the city’s politi… Read More

Falling in love with an African American man can be beyond words rewarding. The relationship that you share with an African America man can be insightful, deeply engaging, nourishing and lon… Read More

Yesterday marked the 33rd anniversary of a crime that took place in New York city on August 26, 1986. Today's blog post is about a song that was inspired by this heinous murd… Read More

"In El Salvador to discuss immigration, McAleenan emphasizes need for ‘well-managed’ border" PBS NewsHour 8/29/2019But forget about really helping with the problems than cause So… Read More

"What Middle America is saying about climate change and gun violence" PBS NewsHour 9/4/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Catastrophic damage from Hurricane Dorian is putting natural disasters, and t… Read More

#StandAgainstNRA"2nd mass shooting in a month leaves another Texas community reeling" PBS NewsHour 9/2/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  In Texas, seven people were killed and 22 wounded in Odessa d… Read More

"Amid peace talks, Taliban claims deadly explosion in Kabul" PBS NewsHour 9/2/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  In Afghanistan, the Taliban claimed responsibility for a massive explosion that rocked… Read More

The markets are weak this morning about 15 min before the open. -1/5% on the average for the indexes with the Nasdaq leading the way. TLT +15% @CL+75% and Vix.x +3.14%This is a lightly neg… Read More

I call my son, whose twenty-five, lives in Philly, and seems to have made his transition out of the American black male danger zone safely, to ask him about The Wire.  Though I spent de… Read More

Chris Malgrain with Stan Lee at San Diego Comic Con Sometimes we underestimate how important passion can be to take us further and to achieve our goals. We can take the case of French c… Read More

Image by DC Comics Fear is the death of a writer. Regardless of the format, if you want a story to succeed, you must be willing to write without fear and believe in what you’re writin… Read More

Juvenile crimes are analogous to adult crimes, but the only difference is the attacker is an underaged person; that is a person under the age of eighteen. On the same terms, the penalties as… Read More

****Trigger Warning: This post contains depictions of violence against women. I’m writing about a difficult and personal subject today. Domestic Violence is rampant in North Americ… Read More

Current day conflict within the humanities seems to center around questions of practicality. If one were to establish poles between the practical and impractical within the empire of langua… Read More

The current coronavirus situation is very complicated for many of us and I’m not going to pretend that I have all the answers for you, so I’m going to focus on what I can hel… Read More

I rarely think about the labels that describe me. That isn’t because of privilege (I spent many years painfully aware of them), but because my friends are incredibly supportive and… Read More

This is an era of technology. Every aspect of life depends upon one or other forms of technology in one or the other way. So is the case with students. Nowadays technology is an important an… Read More

  I have been very critical about the comic book industry in several of my articles and I still stand by those statements I’ve made. When it comes to the mainstream comic book ind… Read More

You can’t tell these stories to the first person you meet: there are no taboos in sexual dreams. No, you don’t have to blush or worry about them — but how do you decipher t… Read More

Image by Marvel Comics The 1990's have received a lot of criticism in recent times by a certain sector of the comic book media because of the tendencies that were developed at the time, su… Read More

After doing my best for 15 minutes I managed to find the best route to the top of the vine. There were a few false starts and some routes upward led me away from the window, but by a combina… Read More