Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Taste of things to come…
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It’s all over…
On hold during a call at work today, and the muzak being played was The Doors The Unknown Soldier. I don’t quite know what to make of that. Was it a statement? Nostalgia? It was weird either way.
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An Evening with Bruce Campbell
Florida State University hosted an “Evening with Bruce Campbell” last night in their Union Ballrooms. Mr. Campbell, best known for his role as “Ash” in the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness films is one of Hollywood’s finest and funniest B-Movie Actors. He spent the first part of the evening talking about Florida, quizzing and offering cash…
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The irony is delicious!
In our country we teach our children to “JUST SAY NO!” But only to illegal drugs. Those drugs not produced by Pharmaceutical Conglomerates like GlaxoSmithKline or Pfizer. Those drugs not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But do we spend any educational dollars on telling kids that they can find ways to live without…
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Coming Soon!
I am a fortunate human-being, fortunate to know and collaborate with a tireless and talented individual. A man who can never receive enough praise for his prodigious skills and knowledge. A man who helped me see a half-baked idea for a comic book called Hot Lunch realized. A man that I thoroughly enjoy working with…
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The red-herring…
Hitchcock was a big fan of it, and countless other story-tellers throughout history have used it as well. A “red-herring”, from a story-telling perspective, is the act of deliberately inserting a plot point into a story so as to set audiences to expect one outcome so that they are taken completely by surprise when the…
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WHAT?!?
They killed Captain America?!? What? Who? Why? um, read it for yourself, I think I need to collect myself…. IN the meantime someone find me Joe Quesada and “bring him to me cause I want to look him in the eye and tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred,…
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Little Mosque fills a need!
I heard about Little Mosque on the Prairie through NPR, initially. Then my friend Michael Gerard found the episodes online. A primetime offering from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is a show about a small community of Muslims living in rural Canada. While not exceptional, the show is cute, but for someone like myself who…
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Chris’ last night in town..
My friend, Chris Klotschkow, left town over a month ago. I’ve known him almost seven years now and I was sad to see him go. But I couldn’t fault his reasons or the opportunity he stumbled into. He’s one of the few people I have known that can debate on level with me, and our…
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so much for that idea…
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Charles Schulz and Peanuts. I was born at the pinnacle of the commercialization of his creations. If it had Snoopy or Charlie Brown on it, then there’s a good chance that I owned it at one point or another in my life. The same can be said…
Got any book recommendations?