Room 237

What is Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining really about?  The Holocaust?  Injustice to Native Americans?  The faking of the Moon Landing?  Countless hidden sexual jokes?  Room 237 is a film where a number of people with way too much time on their hands spend endless hours watching and re-watching The Shining looking for clues as to it’s real meaning. When I grew up I pretty much liked all movies.  An Abbott & Costello feature was right up there with Gone With The Wind as far as I was concerned.  At some point I read a book called The Key by James…

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Real Books and eBooks

I remember the good old days of vinyl LPs and what a pain in the neck those big slabs of plastic were.  I was one of the first on board with digital music, I’ve never been one of those people that think a good LP sounds better than a good mp3.  In this case, the delivery method was improved.  With books, well, I’m not so sure. I don’t mind reading blogs, most of them are pretty short.  Reading full length books is another story.  To be fair, I don’t own a Kindle or a Nook or an Ipad-but laptops and…

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Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

I first read Man Without a Country not long after it came out in 2005 and I still totally agree with everything Kurt has to say. Kurt was a humanist who had the radical idea that war was bad, over population was bad, The Bushes-Chaneys-Rumsfelds of the world were bad, and that the idea that The Free Market will self correct and fix everything is total bullshit. My kind of a guy. Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven now, along with Issac Asimov. Just kidding. They were both famous atheists who prefered the rational to the fantastical, except for their writing.…

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