Monthly Archive: December 2012

Dec 23

My Love/Hate Relationship with Christmas Music.

I love Christmas music.  I DO!!  However, I have some issues with a few Christmas tunes.  Here I have paired some of my favorite and most hated Christmas songs that have a common theme. Death. Love Grandma Got Run-Over by a Reindeer -  A song about mythical flying reindeer running over someones grandma while grandpa …

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Dec 20

It Looks Like This is the End!: Thoughts on the Apocalypse

by Anthony Scibelli As you, my faithful, intelligent and sexually attractive readers are fully aware, I usually do not follow alarmist rhetoric. I am a natural doubter, sometimes doubting as many as fifty things before breakfast, and I do not jump to conclusions easily. There are more than a few wrestling matches from my high …

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Dec 15

Talkin’ Tolkien Part 2 of 137: A Look at the Life of J.R.R. Tolkien

by Anthony Scibelli With the long-awaited film adaptation of The Hobbit opening today, I thought it might be fun to look back at the oft-ignored life of its author: J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien began writing his mythology while in the trenches of World War I. To amuse himself during his down time and take his mind …

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Dec 06

Talkin’ Tolkien: Part 1 of 137

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by Anthony Scibelli Next Friday marks the long awaited film release of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s much loved adventure about Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, and the rest of the gang from Middle Earth. Originally published in 1937, The Hobbit has taken 75 years to make it from Tolkien’s hastily scribbled notebook full of naked …

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