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Avatar Review Part II

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 12, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Since I’ve already written one Avatar review while I was sober, I decided to take a crack at part two of my “Defense Against Religious Environmentalism” (DARE) writeup whilst under the influence of at least half (if not more) of a bottle of fantastic Malbec from Argentina. If I can stumble through with a modicum of my original thesis under wraps, I’ll consider it a good week.

Yes, Swahili Sue, There Is A Santa Claus

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

What happens when you give Swahili Sue a generous grant of two thousand American? Sue, with the entrepreneurial spirit of her long-necked ancestors, is able to collect shiny pebbles, paying the kids of distant tribesmen sweatshop wages to gather shells (dead animals or bullet casings, either one), while her cousin, the one who owns the funky bodega (which he secretly runs a Nigerian email scam out of), sells her radiator wire from junked and burned out vehicles.

Avatar

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 6, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Just to be clear, I’m not opposed to sentient, even highly-intelligent life on other planets living in harmony with nature and a tree Goddess. I can dig on aliens who say prayers over the animals they kill (hey, I’m part Native American, I get it). I understand foreign fauna who cry when they have to [...]

Found In Space

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

2034. Memento mori. Thought that would sink in, this far out. That black, undeniable emptiness of it all. Damn, he would have none of it. Raving about eternal life after Assumption, whatever that meant. Then he left dock. Just walked right out into the interstellar, left the dock wide open. What a Marmaduke. Left a [...]

101 Top Music Videos

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There is something emotionally satisfying about seeing Michel Gondry’s name behind so many of these videos.

Fringe on Fringe

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

An exploration on choice/action and the creation of alternate universes, as applies to the FOX show Fringe.

Fringe Season 2 Opener

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I suppose if Charlie had to go, it was going to happen sooner rather than later. Still, quite sad.

Pick A Domain For My New Novel “Wayland” Contest

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

You may or may not know that for the last year I’ve been working on a novel entitled Wayland. It is the story of a man who travels across the ruined landscape of America with a young boy. Unlike Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this is not the story of a hopeless post-apocalyptic future, but is [...]

The Seafarers

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 12, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

With wind in our sails we swept through seas’ endless foam, the formant of the trough, the sharp cry of eagles at our backs, the distant land of the bayou behind the fog bank. We were obscured at last.

Fantastic Atlas

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Fernando Vicente’s Fantastic Atlas series is pretty amazing.

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