Today is my wedding anniversary. Well, not just mine actually. I should say that it is our wedding anniversary. When my wife walked down the aisle 14 years ago I thought I would never love her more. Of course that was before she bought me the best anniversary present ever. Who knew that after 14 years, […]
Category Archives: Spider-Man
I Am Not a Journalist. I Am Not a Reporter. I Am a Blogger.
First of all, have you seen the new Spider-Man movie? It is fantastic. Best one yet. Tom Holland take all of the magical awkwardness of Tobey’s Peter Parker and all of the smooth quippiness of Andrew’s Spidey, and combines them into the best fully developed characterization we’ve had yet on the big screen for my […]
The Triumph of Neurosis Over Principle
You’re going to need a little nerd backstory on this one, so please bear with me. I’m going to tell you why I stopped collecting comic books. It wasn’t only because they became far too expensive a habit for me to sustain. It wasn’t only because my children were born and I suddenly had new priorities. These things may […]
The Epic Superhero Wish Send-off (& How We Almost Missed It)
We thought he wasn’t sleeping because he was excited. We were all excited. The limousine was arriving at 8 am to whisk us away to the airport for Edward’s Make-a-Wish trip to New York City. So we were excited. But as he lay in the bed next to me at 3 am, not sleeping, I could […]
5 Things My Wife Thinks I Should Blog About
I’m home with the boy today, due to health issues that continue to plague us, and I am feeling kind of sad. I have an opera to memorize by tonight, which I was supposed to be hardcore cramming today, but instead I am watching Word Girl and eating Marshmallow Crispy Oreos. I have no ideas […]
The Latest 35 Mix For Kids
If you are a regular reader around here, then you know that I have on my iPod a playlist called the “Latest 25 Mix,” containing the last 25 songs to catch my ear. It is a rotating list, so when a new songs comes onto it, it means another song is bumped off, and so […]
A Difference Made
When I was growing up, I often felt out of place amongst my extended family. Whether it was real, or all in my own mind, the reason was very clear to me. My uncles and cousins (like many uncles and cousins I suppose) were very into sports. It seemed to me that the value one […]
The Greatest Crossovers of All Time
There is nothing like a good crossover. It’s the reason why “The Avengers” was the number one movie last year, and why there is so much fan-fiction written that attempts to blend two different universes. There is just something inherently exciting and geek-tastic about two (or more) of your favorite characters meeting and interacting. I […]
The Problem With My Brain
There is a problem with my brain. I suspect that I may have ADD. Or ADHD. Or whatever they are calling it these days. Thinking about it now, I was definitely that kid back in school, and even though they didn’t have Ritalin in those days, I’m sure they would have tried to give it […]
Defining Good and Evil in a Non-Religious Context
What is good? What is evil? Are they fixed things that exist outside of any societal categorization? Certainly many religions have strong views on the subject, and in my personal Christian religion I suppose that “good” can be boiled down to doing what God wants, and evil would be the opposite. But if you strip […]