Oh. Hello again, April. It’s been some time since I last saw you – a year, I’ll wager. You never disappoint. You’re always right on time. You’ve got my birthday with you, I’m fairly sure; you usually do. A little closer inspection … ah, yes. There he is. A little older than when last I [...]

I have authored a formula which is destined to shake the worlds of mathematics and metal to their very respective cores. What follows is Vinny’s (soon-to-be-)Patented Formula For the Determination of How Awesome a Metal Concert Is.

Simply stated, one can typically estimate how amazing a show is/was by how drained one feels afterward, and [...]

 
HERE THERE BE MONSTERS:
A Critical Review of The Dark Knight
2008, Aaron Chandler
 
Aragorn said naught in answer, but he took the other’s eye and held it, and for a moment they strove thus; but soon, though Aragorn did not stir nor move hand to weapon, the other quailed and gave back as if menanced with a [...]

 
“BEOWULF BESTED:
Myth, Majesty, and Middle-earth”
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Aaron Chandler
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April 2007
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This spring, the world was given a gift, of a nature unseen for thirty years.
In 1973, the author J.R.R. Tolkien passed away. His contributions to history were comprised of both fictional and scholarly accomplishments, and though he was one of the foremost philologists to ever live, he is most [...]