I just got back home from a trip to New York City where I saw a preview of the new Spider-man musical,  Turn off the Dark, the same musical that’s been getting all kinds of press lately because of Bono, the Edge, Julie Taymor, huge overzealous budgets, crazy acrobatics and effects, and a production rife with delays and cast injuries. But I didn’t care about any of that. I care about Spider-man, and with that in mind, I’ve got some stuff to say.
Now that I’ve seen the thing I’ve read …

A vivid tale of Western civilization’s compulsion to conquer nature and other cultures…and Mads Mikkelsen dumping a screaming man’s intestine’s onto the ground while he’s still alive.

Tron: Legacy proves that the Dudeis alive and well in the twenty-first century (and, hopefully, still writing checks for under a dollar at the local supermarket). As Flynn, Bridges spends the entire film wearing an LED bathrobe and seems to be really lazy about doing anything that involves leaving the house.

In the shadow of our gracious host here at Mispeled, luke t. bergeron, I’m making available an old short story of mine entitled “Dream Transcription” that I hope is more enjoyable to read than I assume it to be.  One of my favorite authors wrote, “If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin and say, ‘When you’re ready.’”
So here’s a short description of the story (which incidentally is kind of important to the story… probably should have incorporated it into …

For most of my life I’ve been fascinated with Lego building blocks. I love the idea that they are a strangely modern art form – small manufactured pieces assembled together in a billion different ways to create microcosms of culture. There’s something so powerful in that idea that I can’t quite wrap my mind around it.
I’ve collected Legos on and off since I was a kid, castles mostly, although I dabbled in the town, space, and pirate themes a little. When I was a kid my favorite thing to do …