Day 801: Billy The Kidd – A Brutal Pirate. Well, Maybe

originally published March 11, 2014 Sometimes our most loathsome villains have been misunderstood, their legacies forever stained by the thick-bristled brush of historical “common knowledge”. William Kidd’s name is uttered in the same venomous breath as Blackbeard, Black Bart, and that Rupert guy from Survivor. He makes nearly every list of famous historical pirates, and […]

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Day 799: Poon Adrift

originally published March 9, 2014 Each of us possesses a limited reach of survival, a finite extension of our  bodys’ and minds’ capabilities to endure. Fortunately, we live within the sanctuary of modernity, with a rather slim likelihood of our true survival being tested. This is a good thing. Let’s be honest, if most anyone […]

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Day 793: Curious Bond-ities

originally published March 3, 2014 After three years of film studies classes, I have yet to find any university prof who will bestow more than a grunt upon the phenomenon of James Bond. I understand that – if ever there was a formula film genre, Bond takes the golden crown of convention. But they are […]

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