Paul Matthew Carr

This week I’m reading The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock. The Knight of Swords is the first book in the Swords Trilogy which tells the tale of Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe, who is an [...]

I am normally not one who lingers on disaster. I don’t feel the need focus on failure or tragedy. It just does nothing for me. When confronted by something terrible or embarrassing I can usually just let it pass by; if [...]

Howdy y’all and welcome to another one of dem dare Website Roundups! Y’all know the drill by now, I write in a deeply flawed cowboy vernacular and attempt to be clever and funny while saying “yee haw!” several times before [...]

If there are two things I like it’s space opera and creative editing. And this video from YouTuber OneMinuteGalactica has both. What’s not to like? I was a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica when it first aired back in 1978. [...]

Last night John Oliver on Last Week Tonight discussed the ridiculous reasons we in America waste nearly 1/3 of our food. We we throw enough food in this country to fill 730 football stadiums worth every year. That’s insane. Now [...]

Howdy pardners! Tarnation it’s been might long time since we did one of these here Website Roundups! Reckon we just jump on in and get ‘er done?

Christopher Lee died last week. He was 93 years old. Lee was an actor with a career that spanned nearly 70 years and had become known recently for playing Saruman and Count Dooku in the Lord of the Rings and [...]

Before we begin let me acknowledge the fact that the title to this article is probably the worst pun I have come up with and actually posted for other human beings to see. I have not gone back through previous [...]

There are times when I write something so beautiful I can’t believe that I was the one who wrote it. I think for a moment that someone must have broken in while I slept and typed out a file on [...]

I have been a fan of Death Cab for Cutie for over a decade now. There is something about the haunted, hollow sound they make that strikes a cord with me. There is an innate sadness to the music, even [...]