Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: Edward Curtis and Native Americans

Although I grew up in a region of the country that is home to reservations and still is heavily influenced by the coastal Native American tribes, there was never much concerted effort on my part to learn more about those who inhabited the land before us. I’m not certain America is ready to fully confront […]

Life in the Tunnels: Review of “Pitch Black”

Pitch Black Youme Landowne; Anthony Horton Pitch Black isn’t a particularly long graphic novel: only clocking in at roughly 40 pages. But its power comes from the messages that radiate out from the text. The poignant story reveals just a bit of what it’s like to be a homeless man in New York who chooses to live underground […]

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Journalism With a Political Twist I like Thompson’s work. He’s insightful, intelligent, and overall just a really entertaining guy to read. Fear and Loathing is really no different in that respect. He follows George McGovern throughout the presidential campaign in 1972, and is writing a […]

Naked Lunch: Abject Insanity

Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs My uncle always has found really interesting books for me to read. No genre could be excluded from the books he lends me: obscure sci-fi, dense fiction, or subversive texts are all expected and subsequently consumed by my “innocent” mind. I had received “Naked Lunch” for my birthday last year, but finally came to […]

Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón A friend and I regularly swap books with each other. Although sometimes aiming to give them a book they’ll really enjoy, often we decide to share something that may be a little out of the normal topic or genre that they’re used to reading. It’s a great […]

Reading Recap: Dinosaurs, Valve Software, and General Oddishness

Oddishness? Google claims there are only 15,800 instances of the word “Oddishness” on the internet. I’ll leave it up for debate if this is a) an expected number, or b) grossly exaggerated. As previously noted, I’ve started spooling up my reading quota from the earlier production of roughly one book completed per month. I’ll start jabbering […]

Gettin’ My Books On

Movies are Totally Last Year Since graduation from college a couple of years ago, I’ve focused on getting up to speed with the popular culture centered around these things known as “moving pictures.” I watched a bunch, wrote about them, and generally had fun feasting my eyeballs upon all that the motion picture industry had […]

Darconville’s Cat

When Alexander Theroux wrote Darconville’s Cat, he wove a story of forbidden love and despair while savoring unusual words, multiple methods of narrative, and interspersed bits of humor in the midst of a spiral into oblivion. It’s a highly under appreciated literary work, and if you’re looking for something that most likely nobody else you […]

Revealing Insight into Nikky’s Mind (or pointless trivia)

I’m quite possibly the most random book shopper ever. Not only am I interested in just about everything that has ever existed, but I also have a large list of books I need to get which I maintain in my head. This list will randomly spew out knowledge to my “action node” and force me […]