The past few years, I've been digging a bit into Norse myths and whatnot, somewhat spawned by what I saw in the Ring Cycle operas and my...

One thing I know about Edgar Rice Burroughs - he is very certain women get kidnapped every 20 minutes.   We're here in the Fifth of the ...

kitty..? So, I'm back on my Mars thing.   I'm picking up here with the 4th book in the John Carter of Mars cycle , Thuvia, Maid of M...

Today, according to the internet and the granddaughter of the author , is the 130th Birthday of American writer, Samuel Dashiell Hammett.   ...

Turns out today, Dec. 19th, 2023, is the 180th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , arguably one of th...

Author:  Dr. Christina Lane Year Released:  2020 Format:  Audio Book and Book A while back I learned of Dr. Christina Lane's book, Phant...

Watched:  09 and 10/2021 Format:  Television Apple+ Viewing: First Decade: 2020's Director:  various For more ways to listen Juan and Ry...

Watched:  10/24/2021 Format:  HBOmax Viewing:  First Decade:  2020's Director:  Denis Villeneuve Well, whatever opinion I have will be w...

Finished:  10/03/2019 Author:  Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Reader:  Tracey Childes Format:  Audiobook Decade:  1870's Recording:  200...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder .  If you've never seen it, it's...

At long last, I read both The Long Goodbye (1953)  and Playback (1958) , the last of Raymond Chandler's novels centered upon detecti...

Watched:  02/01/2019 Format:  Kino Lorber BluRay Viewing:  First Decade:  1970's Simon and Ryan delve into Film Noir via Neo-Noi...

Watched:  12/25/2018 Format:  Rifftrax Viewing: First Decade:  2010's I am not a gamer.  The only console I own is one of those ...

I started reading All the Answers (2018) a couple of weeks ago, got ten pages in and realized that I wouldn't have time to read it c...

Author:  Sean Howe Release:  October, 2013 The manager at my Local Comic Shoppe, Brandon, suggested Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (2...

I'd intended to read Michelle McNamara's true-crime book, I'll Be Gone In The Dark (2018) , this year at some point, but wa...

After completing the two Maigret mystery movies, I decided to check out some actual Inspector Maigret novels.  Not as big of a deal here ...

Watched:  02/03/2018 Format:  Google Play Streaming Viewing:  Unknown, but somewhere over 25th Decade:  1990's

Seems this is a thing we're all doing, so here goes. I very much remember placing this order (or these orders).  Half of my friends...

Today marks the 200th Anniversary of the first publication of Frankenstein (or, The Modern Prometheus) .  It's a book many of us were...