Sarah Rockford reflected that it was a very strange thing to be sitting across the table from a man who had come very close to murdering her only a few days before. “Thank you for consenting to see me, Mr. Lepton,” she said. “This won’t take long.” Lepton said nothing. He was looking at her … Continue reading Thrilling Adventure Stories Presents: Sarah Rockford in Crime Uninvited
Author: DBreitenbeck
Appealing to the Past: A Clarification
In my thoughts I usually end up appealing to the superiority of the past in some ways. I want to be clear that this isn't because I think that any age of the past was in any way perfect or didn't have its own problems or even that there were times and places where people … Continue reading Appealing to the Past: A Clarification
Thoughts on the Church Abuse Scandal
I have been delayed in writing about this due to being on vacation, and from arranging my thoughts. Even so, this is going to be a very rough outline. Despite taking so much time, I still find my thoughts in disarray, just because there is so much to talk about and so much of it … Continue reading Thoughts on the Church Abuse Scandal
5 Impossible Things
Found this video drifting around YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVRc80vhhQ Assuming any of these things are actually true (when you're looking at something lightyears away you will forgive me if I don't absolutely buy that you're seeing what you think you're seeing). Two Shadows: Okay, this is pure padding. Multiple shadows happen all the time on the Earth, … Continue reading 5 Impossible Things
Thrilling Adventure Stories Presents: Nick Windworth and Karen Stillwater in The Crush of Evidence
Karen Stillwater eyed the man before her with distaste. Though a few inches taller than she was, something about his sloping shoulders and somewhat drooping face made her think of him as a little man. He wore a dirty jacket, shirt, and unkempt tie and hung a battered felt hat on the peg by … Continue reading Thrilling Adventure Stories Presents: Nick Windworth and Karen Stillwater in The Crush of Evidence
Thought
The modern age has largely been the story of replacing what works in fact with what works in theory.
A Thought on Aretha Franklin
More specifically, on some of the responses to her death. I'm a Detroit native, and for that city the death of Aretha Franklin is as the death of a home-grown President or war hero. She was a major and beloved figure in the city's history and culture, all the more so because, unlike many of … Continue reading A Thought on Aretha Franklin
Thrilling Adventure Stories Presents: Nick Windworth in The Man in Grey
The shop bell chimed and a young woman entered. Nick guessed she was in her mid twenties; pretty, though less than she might be. Her fair young face was worn with anxiety and her light brown hair was tangled, probably from the number of times she’d run her fingers through it. She looked anxiously around … Continue reading Thrilling Adventure Stories Presents: Nick Windworth in The Man in Grey
An Observation
Human excellence is essentially individual. Ten thousand men of ordinary skill, by pulling their resources, could never have produced Aristotle's Ethics, Shakespeare's Hamlet, or Bougeureau's Abduction of Psyche. Even in the cases where crowds do great things, there tends to be a single genius guiding their efforts: the American Revolutionaries never would have succeeded without George Washington, and Standard … Continue reading An Observation
On the Oscars
Accelerating its journey to complete irrelevance, the Academy Awards announced that it plans to add a category for 'Best Popular Film' (there's a fairly credible suspicion that this is mostly a way to give an award to Black Panther, which...let's not get into that). I've long since stopped caring about the Oscars, but I wanted to … Continue reading On the Oscars
Serpent's Den 