This post is going to honk a lot of people off, probably.  Whether it cuts one way or another.  I know and accept that. First of all, the ol...

Big League Politics posted a story yesterday about a children's book titled - and I am not  making this up - What's An Abortion, An...

Tom Clancy was one of the first authors who I would eagerly await the next novel from.  I was a high school sophomore when the film adapt...

This past Friday evening saw musical parody genius, pop culture icon and now bestselling author "Weird Al" Yankovic come to Quail...

Last spring I added a new vice to my list of stuff worth spending valuable time on. I haven't spoken about it on this blog yet but thos...

We deserve better.  We should have demanded better.  We should have had higher expectations from those who asked to be entrusted with c...

Awright, disclaimer time ('cuz I believe in that sort of thing): I've known Stephen Shumate for most of my life, though it's be...

I began reading Suzanne Collins' novel The Hunger Games , as it turned out, a few day before Mom passed away. It took me awhile to get...

"Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powe...

This past winter master musical parody artist "Weird" Al Yankovic published his first-ever book, When I Grow Up . Yankovic's...

2007's BioShock is on my short list of all time greatest video games ever. Okay, scratch that: BioShock is not a "video game ...

It was all the way back in 2005, when Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was hitting theaters, that James Luceno first mentioned h...

And I hope to have Part 6 of Being Bipolar up by the weekend :-)

Had author Joe Schreiber not written Star Wars: Red Harvest , I would have been completely satisfied with his 2009 novel Death Troopers ( s...

James Luceno is a happy man: word came out a few days ago that his long-simmering Star Wars novel about Darth Plagueis is going to be publi...

Pixar animation artist Josh Cooley has been making a series of illustrations inspired by - in addition to parodying - those classic Lil...

And y'all know what that means, right? It means that my fast from pleasure reading is finished with also! Yah, I didn't read any bo...

This morning good friend and fellow Eagle Scout Steven Glaspie (who needs to update his blog sometime: something about being too busy with ...

You know him as Lincoln the Rail-Splitter, Lincoln the Lawyer, and Lincoln the President of the United States. Now, bestselling historical a...

First, here's something that I had the idea for while reading this book... It could prolly also be said that Darth Bane is the galactic ...