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Thoughts on Batman: Arkham Asylum

Thoughts on Batman: Arkham Asylum

What jury wouldn't vote to kill this man?Back to the regularly scheduled program of reviewing things that aren't new. I'm not so much interested in reviewing this game as in reflecting on it. I've really enjoyed Christopher Nolan's Batman

Requiescat in Pace, John J. Reilly

Today I received the news that my internet friend and sometime correspondent, John Reilly, had passed away. I knew he was gravely ill, and it was only a matter of time. You will be missed John. May you enjoy a well earned rest, good and faithful servant.

The Food Stamp Diet

DarwinCatholic has a post on the Food Stamp Diet. The amount of money you get to feed yourself and your kids on food stamps doesn't sound like much, $33.04 per person per week, depending on which program you are talking about. However, Darwin looked at the amount

Hobbitses

New Tim Powers book coming March 2012

Hide Me Among the GravesTim Power's newest novel, Hide Me Among the Graves, will be coming March 2012. This is sort of a sequel to The Stress of Her Regard , a tale of vampryic muses in the lives of Byron, Keats, and Shelley, based on actual events in

Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith Book Review

By Fr. Robert Barron $27.99; 291 pages I received this book for free as part of the Early Reviewers book program at LibraryThing.com. I haven't seen the documentary that this book is intended to be a complement to. [and prepostitions aren't what you end

Education for slackers

A couple of years ago, I posted an essay about Dorothy Sayers' Lost Tools of Learning. An aspect of her argument that I didn't pull out in that essay, but that struck me at the time, was how unstructured her program of education really was: Towards the