Blogs & Features

The Star Wars extended universe is vast and sprawling. It consist of movies (obviously), TV shows, games, comics, and many, many, many books. Just so many books. And if I’m honest it was a bit daunting. I’ve always considered myself [...]

I saw Logan a week ago and if I were a good blogger/critic I would have immediately wrote up my thoughts and threw them out there for the world to see with a clickbait-able title and some snarky and/or gushing [...]

Usually when ones hears the words “viscous flow” you are not expecting to see something beautiful. No, usually it is preceded by the question: “Does this look infected?” and followed by the answer: “Dude, you should see a doctor.” But [...]

Goodnight Miss Calabash Nebula, wherever you are! (If you get that joke, congratulations! You’re old). So here is another example of the universe being beautiful in the throws of death. I mean, if you’re a sun and you’re gonna die it [...]

Editor’s Note: I originality wrote this back in 2015 I thought it could use a re-post.   My great-great-grandfather came here from Ireland. He did so to escape famine, civil war and oppression. He left everything he knew – family, [...]

So 2016 is over (finally) and it was…let’s go with interesting. But amid all the disappointment, despair and downright disgust (lots of alliteration – eat your heat out Stan Lee) there was one bright point – The end credit song [...]

2016 was not a good year. I could mention the abundance of celebrity deaths or the uncivil election or the discouraging decisions in Europe as the reasons for the awfulness of the year. Or on a smaller scale there were [...]

Normally I would say something snarky or goofy here but this image speaks for itself really, no need to embellish with my customary silliness. It’s stunning. Just a great example of the Universe being awesome. And here, at the end of [...]