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If My Daughter Wanted To Do These Jobs, I’d Prefer She Turn To Porn

By jim_snowden August 18, 2014The Larger World

Damon Linker, pundit, columnist for The Week, and minor league irritant, tries to critique what he sees as creeping moral libertinism by asking "What If Your Daughter Was a Porn Star?" He…

Anybody Out There Know Anything About Riesling-Based Cocktails?

By jim_snowden August 15, 2014The Larger World

Why do I ask? Because I've been called upon to do a guest post as part of my book blog tour, and the request is that I write about a cocktail recipe…

On Depression and Creativity

By jim_snowden August 13, 2014The Larger World

Whenever a famous artist attempts or commits suicide, articles pop up like skin boils with headlines like, "Robin Williams’ death rekindles questions about creativity and depression". Since I've been dealing…

Local Grifter Makes Shives’s List Of Five Stupid Things Of 8/11

By jim_snowden August 12, 2014The Larger World

Steve Shives, one of my favorite Youtubers, is talking about Mark Driscoll, the lying sexist homophobe who started Mars Hill Church, which is a big deal among the dudebros of the…

Robin Williams, An Appreciation

By jim_snowden August 11, 2014Comedy, The Larger World

The first great stand up comedian I ever saw was Robin Williams. When I was ten or eleven, my parents let me watch my first uncensored comedy show, a rerun…

All of the Book Blog Tour Destinations for Summer Are Set

By jim_snowden August 11, 2014Books

Those of you in the reading several who liked Summer of Long Knives should drop by these blogs on or around the listed dates to see what's going on. I'm sure…

Warning: This Post Will Make You Think About Death

By jim_snowden August 7, 2014The Larger World

I'll be doing this one David Shields style, with selected quotes. (Shields, by the way, is the author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead) Franz…

Breaking News, Publicity Fans: The Summer of Long Knives Book Blog Tour

By jim_snowden August 7, 2014Uncategorized2 Comments

One of those book blog tour things does appear to be happening for Summer of Long Knives. It starts September 15th, runs through October 15th, and'll involve my stopping by at various…

The 42 Worst Movies Made Since I Was Born

By jim_snowden August 2, 2014Movies

From Over at the MMIP Riffs site, a full list. Here's a sample: Omen III: The Final Conflict: The first Omen movie made almost zero sense, but it had a…

Five Stupid Things About Faith Healers

By jim_snowden July 25, 2014The Larger World

I have strong personal reasons for disliking faith healers. By now, I'd have probably lost my grandmother anyway, but when she died in 1988, she still had at least 5-10…