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Today is one of my favorite holidays, the time when the walls between what-we-know and what-we-dream are particularly thin, a time of masks and costumes and candy, a celebration of the spooky, the mysterious, the surreal. Sadly, I’ve been far too distracted and disorganized this year to come up with a costume. I don’t even [...]
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in the strange, the uncanny, the mysterious, the wondrous, the supernatural. But when I was in 1st grade, I became somewhat obsessed with ghosts and haunted houses, UFO sightings, legends of vampires and werewolves, and cryptozoology. This went on for years. I checked out as many [...]
GLAAD has declared today, October 20, as Spirit Day, a day for people of all sexual orientations to show support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth and to show support against bullying. I’m heterosexual, but I have many people in my life of various orientations who I love dearly. And know people who have [...]
I was walking through downtown Lawrence tonight with Brooke and her dear friend, Amy. I was wearing my Flash T-shirt, and as we approached a crosswalk to cross the street, one of a group of young men standing around on the sidewalk called out, “Hey, Flash! Let’s race!” I smiled politely and said, “Nah, I’m [...]
This line spoken by Faramir in The Two Towers goes a long way towards expressing my view on soldiers and warfare (and the glorification of both): …I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend…
