
I've been home with the flu all week. Maybe it was my fever. Maybe it was the cold medicine. Anyway, about midnight, on a particularly feverish night, I awoke to find a ghostly apparition standing next to my bed.
Attack of the Stereotypes! Native Americans in FantasySource:
As Columbus Day approaches, you'll hear people talk endlessly about the Italian mapmaker and his discovery of America. Of course, such talk ignores the fact that people had been living here in thriving civilizations for thousands of years before he arrived.

I need a diversion from politics for awhile, so I thought I'd think about something completely off the topic.

Liberals love to propose acts of kindness and charity. And these are usually great ideas. Liberals find it quick and easy to say we should provide homes for the homeless, food for the hungry, jobs for the lazy, health care for the apathetic. These are great ideas.
Fables for AdultsSource: townhall.com
Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth, who was walking on a log across a stream.

"Catch," yelled Snow the youngest daughter of Gaspar the King of the Snow Leopards as she hurled the ball toward Selia the lost. Selia was an adopted member of the Snow Leopard community.

Several times she has sent word to get in touch,
The call of the wild has haunted your every waking moment,
Anxiously, you anticipate some time alone,
Eagerly, you put on your favorite shirt,
Slowly, you slide into a pair of jeans,
Are Fairies, Wizards and Other Supernatural Beings Real? Source: associatedcontent.com
These days, instead of believing in God, a lot of people believe in wizards, fairies, elves, and other fantasy creatures. I think its ironic how God and the Bible are called fantasy, yet wizards, fairies, elves, and even vampires, are treated as if they're real.
Review: Shorts (with trailer)Source: derbyshire.co.uk
DIRECTOR Robert Rodriguez seems to veer quite happily from splatter violence to children's movies, as in his Spy Kids films.
That's not as strange as it may first seem, when you consider that even his "adult" films have an adolescent feel.
Happy Birthday, H. P. Lovecraft!Source: en.wikipedia.org
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, who together with Edgar Allan Poe has exerted "an incalculable influence on s …

Right outside of town, we have a brand new windmill farm. There are 54 windmills in the "patch," as it is called by the employees. These are 1.5 megawatt mills.

I have come across some Breaking News kind of statements in my time on this earth, but have you ever thought about these.

I'm not sure why, but people don't really think about fantasy and science fiction when they hear Idaho mentioned.
On a dream deferred to capitalismSource: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Hedges, whose previous books include American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, not only shows how corporations wield power, he also examines how they manipulate and reshape the individual's sense of self.

Actors who played Harry Potter, Dr. Who, and Mr.
From Impulse to RealitySource: The New York Times
"There are all kinds of pitfalls in social life, everywhere we look; not just errors but worst possible errors come to mind, and they come to mind easily," said the paper's author, Daniel M. Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard.

When I was a young kid, I wanted to be Dale Evans, who was Roy Roger's wife, or Lady Ann, an English princess. Awhile later I wanted to become a Standard-Bred racehorse driver.

I always hated Star Wars. Really hated it. I saw "The Empire Strikes Back" in the theater, and I don't even remember it. So I just assumed that science fiction just wasn't my thing. Then a friend pointed out to me that my favorite shows were, in fact, science fiction. Huh?

"I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals.