When he’s not directing and starring in Westerns or movies about weed-smoking bears, he’s doin’ the universe a HUGE favor by making Carl Sagan’s entire documental archive available on the Library of Congress website. Previously you could access the 800 or so documents, letters, articles,…
“You could say that these stories/ could not happen./ Yet some say they did happen.” When I was a kid Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories was a pretty regular thing in the household among my brother and I. Most times we were just joking around about the…
“In the Star-Club one night John came on stage with a toilet seat around his neck, and a cape on, and a hat. He was out o fhis f—in’ brain” – Mark Lewisohn, In Tune 3,000 pages seems about the right length for a biography…
What is a day on this Earth even without the fulfillment gained in reading a Rob Delaney tweet? But seriously, you’re going to need to splurge for even more 24/7 access to the outrageous comedian (who is permanently embedded in our hearts forever) in his…
“The truth has no temperature” In the latest Cormac McCarthy movie-make, we have a really good-looking cast to carry out the American novelists’ well-known literary voice that’s debuting for the first time creating an original screenplay in a way us viewers are supposed to love…
“…the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”—William Faulkner This past weekend in NYC was the premiere of James Franco’s As I Lay Dying: his second novel adaptation released this year, shortly after Child of God that first played at…
“Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxi cabs the same way you get tired of riding in elevators. All of the sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or high up.” Where do you even begin to tell the story of J.D.…
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.” –Jack Kerouac, On the Road The soundtrack to Brazilian director…
“Five thousand years ago the lobes of the brain fused and before that people thought when the right lobe of the brain said anything it was the voice of some god telling them what to do. It’s just brains.” -Neil Gaiman, American Gods Oh. My.…
Yay Johnny Depp! In what seems to be an era of e-book takeover, Depp has taken much initiative to bring back a dying breed of publishing agencies with his new joint effort publishing company Infinitum Nihil, which is also the name of his production company…