Awhile back I got to thinking about Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky.” Specifically I was thinking about the first stanza:

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

This stanza makes Firefox’s spell checker light up like a Christmas tree. Many of the words were created […]

While buying a Mother’s Day card for my Grandmother I realized that Greeting Cards are the biggest, most clown-footed ass rape in the history of consumer goods.
I paid $2.69 for a poem written on cardstock with some graphics on it. They throw in an envelope for good measure too.  The text in the card is […]

He’s been dead for 30 years but JRR Tolkien is still writing books.
The Children of Hurin tells the tragic and dark tale of a family cursed by Morgoth, the first dark lord (he makes Sauron look like Santa Claus.)
I’ll put a full review up as soon as I finish reading it (even though I’ve already […]

I’ve known about the impending release of a new book by JRR Tolkien for months but, for some reason, the internet picked today to start yapping about it. People seem fairly divided over it fearing that Christopher Tolkien has defaced the original work in the interest of making a buck or two.
Anyone who has read […]

Perhaps I’ll do a post like this once per month on a Monday. Mondays are the blackest, most brutal day of the week and, for some reason, I can never seem to stew up good ideas for posts. I figure I’ll review a few things that have been sucking up all my leisure time.
Reading:
World War […]