After a couple of years and several recommendations, I finally read Dan Simmon’s epic novel. I’ve been a Homer aficionado for most of my life (thanks, Mrs. Farmer!), and an “expert” ever since I took my first class in graduate school on epic poetry.
Archive | June, 2010
Mysterious Monsters
Back in the seventies, from what my brain remembers, there was a fascination with what was then termed “mysterious monsters.” I distinctly remember films about Bigfoot, and they frankly scared the shit out of me.
Impressions ’85
I recently got a new scanner. It’s an older-model Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M, and since then, I’ve been a scanning fool. Perhaps I’m a bit more nostalgic than most, but I’ve been carrying around boxes of paper memories for the last twenty years. It begins mostly with high school — letters, photos, cards, awards, notes — [...]
