Quick correction: Frank was always military. His origin is all based around being a Vietnam veteran.

Just finished Between the World and Me. Next up is War by Sebastian Junger.

Not to excuse James Woods for acting like an asshole (and here I await the eventual lawsuit he files against me for saying that), but it is not like posting the address of someone on social media is a specifically conservative trait. We here can all recall people on the left doing this very thing, sometimes even going…

God Hemingway is good. I sometimes get the vibe that it's cool nowadays to shit on him but his stuff is just really damn good.

I loved the City and the City, what were your problems with it?

Love Hardcore History. Great series.

I don't know if I can take more attacks to my gut….

The movie is one of my favorite Kubricks. Amazing and gut wrenching.

No, I'm not a big poetry reader. But that sounds really interesting.

Margaret MacMillan's the Road to 1914: the War that Ended Peace. It's what we'd get it Barbara Tuchman had decided to take the first chapter of the Guns of August and turn that into a 600 page book. And since I'm on a WW1 kick after that it will be the Long Shadow: the Legacies of the Great War by David Reynolds.

Took the little kiddo to see it, I think this review is a bit harsh. I'd give it a solid B.

Comment of the year.

God I hope we are, but so far it's not looking good.

I graduated from college two years ago. I actually took a loss in income (I had been on the GI Bill and grants through college) and had to work a job that I hated with a pureness that should should be admired in order to afford my son's day care. I actually did stop buying comics (due to both a lack of money and…

It's interesting how many geniuses of the medium are kind of crazy. Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison , Dave Sim, Robert Crumb….

Wrong demographic, you're thinking of blue collar and lower middle class.

We of the upper middle class need our masturbation fantasies too!

It's Always Sunny beckons…

Fuller Circle.

Like the plot in a pornographic film.