FOR THE HELL OF IT. Vol. 2, Number 4. 02/14/11 By Johnny Heller Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is upon us! Quick, go martyr a Christian! Or you could just go get a nice box of suddenly super expensive chocolates. Let us consider today the interesting cultural phenomenon known as Valentine’s Day. Each year we are asked to surrender ourselves to bizarre rituals of romance that have nothing whatever to do with St. Valentine and everything to do with Hallmark Cards and other clever business enterprises that have covertly banded together in an ingenious plot to put two people together while parting one person from his true love – money. …
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The Sherlockian
Written by Graham Moore, Narrated by James Langton -an audio book review- Jo Anna Perrin Sherlock Holmes, in both the enduring reality of the character and the ambivalent appreciation expressed towards him by his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a rift that caused Doyle to actually kill Holmes off at one point, becomes the stuff of fiction. Literally. It is the jumping off point in Graham Moore’s paean to Holmesiana, The Sherlockian. If you are addicted to Sherlock Holmes, and even if you just have a passing interest, it would be hard not to be charmed by this clever and nimble romp through the annals of the great detective. The …
FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol. 2, Number 3 02/04/11 PROMISES, PROMISES It has been said that promises are made to be broken. This is most often said by people with only a rudimentary understanding of what one means by the word: “promise”. So let’s take a look at the word. If we break down the etymology of the promise we have the first part – prom – which is taken from the ancient Greek – “pro-em”. Proem was a word ancient Greeks used to denote a dance or party for horny young people which included a great deal of revelry and drinking and eating all with the intent of …
FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 NUMBER 2 01/26/11 The History of Mankind In today’s blog I shall visit a subject that we will need to revisit throughout the year – the History of Mankind – A Study in Stupidity. We’ll look at various time periods in our history and how stupid we were at every turn and at the creation of what are now accepted practices, customs and mores regardless of the idiocy that caused the creation and continued practice of them. We shall also, at times, look at historical movements and significant events in our world paying particular attention to any number of WTF moments. Let …
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