am I the only one that is missing ‘Hope’ between Faith, and Love in the headline?

Earth, Abides by George R. Stewart from 1949. In a lot of ways it is the link between plague narratives of the past and those of the modern era. Stewart was a professor of English at UC Berkeley and also wrote a solid book on the Donner party Ordeal by Hunger.

“I’ve only read the first Spenser and did not care for it, way too much Chandler worship.”

I watched it all over the weekend and it was fine..

now I want an againg buddy carpenter film staring Ford and Ironside.

last time I checked there were several other countries with film/TV industries that have been very happy to have D list Hollywood types in their productions.

“Tell us our futures, Dean Koontz.”

more Trump wanting to be Woodrow Wilson and failing...

If the new Ghostbusters don’t have this in the film somehow they are leaving money on the table..

Homicide: Life on the Streets (aka a Year on the Killing Street) - (TV/Book)

Parking lots could be for out door cooking of BBQ? I wonder if this is all part of the food tuck eco system.

also time to revisit Warren Zevon’s Down in the Mall.

they have been promoting it all over Hulu (and maybe youtube) for the last several weeks

you get a star for invoking the great H:LOTS ..

yes is the case with many cultures, however - World History/ Great Books/ Drama/ Art History/ Geography/ Lit/ Western Civ (at least when I was in school) was taught/focused on ; Mesopotamia - Egypt - Greece - Rome - Spain - France/England - USA ... with options for Asia, Africa, South America and the Indian…

TL;DR most people don’t know anything about the Nordic people, their history, arts, lifestyle and culture.

Unless things have changed since I was in school in the 80s and 90s Nordic history, mythology and culture is totally MIA. Sure there might be a few places with large population of people of Nordic descent where…

I was more pointing to the Marvel films and the shows like Vikings as opposed to those produces in the Nordic countries.

there are people who worship Odin out there, many are in black metal bands ;)
and if ‘dead’ religions are open for use then I would assume that the religion of the Inca and the Aztec are fair game...?

pretty sure the Greeks were  colonizing well before the Norse...

“It may be the ancient Norwegian term for the end times, but in a post-Thor world, naming your series Ragnarok still feels like a direct challenge to Marvel’s most successful outing with cultural appropriation of the god of thunder.”

I told my Into to Lit teacher in the 9th grade I morally objected to Catcher in the Rye and she gave me Great Expectations.. which I skim read but did not absorb... there is a reason I got a D in that class.. mostly it was that I was more interested in reading Comic Books that year...

I should add that I was taking…