Eric Scheske

What happened Sunday night? Gervais' monologue blew me away. What blew me away even more: quite a few cheers from the audience. More groans than cheers? Possibly, but quite a few cheers nonetheless. Joe Rogan observed recently that Hollywood has no soul, and Hollywood is slowly coming to the

I was reading David Mikics biography of Jacque Derrida [https://amzn.to/2MZTxV0] . He points out that the first large urban civilizations–like Babylon and Egypt–“used writing as an elite mechanism for social control. The secrets of the realm remained in the hands of the few who had knowledge

I asked my daughter to bring me the newspaper. she said I'm too old fashioned and brought me her iPhone. Not getting too much into details, the fly is now dead, the iPhone is broken and my daughter is crying.

Brews You Can Use Whew. The holidays come to a close. There are lots of downsides to leaving childhood, but this time of year isn't one of them. When I was a kid, I'd have the post-holiday blues. As an adult with a frantic need for

“He rules the world with truth and grace.” –Isaac Watts ++ “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” –Charles Dickens ++ “The Incarnation”¦illuminates and orders all other phenomena, explains both our laughter and our logic, our fear of the dead and our knowledge

A guy bought his wife a beautiful diamond ring for Christmas. After hearing about this extravagant gift, a friend of his said, "I thought she wanted one of those sporty four-wheel-drive vehicles." "She did," he replied. "But where was I going to find a fake

Brews You Can Use Bless the Varidesk [https://amzn.to/2PHnUBE]. Bless work. Bless gin. Bless Jim Lowe. Allow me to tie that all together. I've previously pointed out that if, all is play, even work becomes play. Play occurs in that crucial EXISTENTIAL GAP, that area between

The Flies Sartre's play, The Flies, dramatizes the Greek legend of Orestes, a man who murders his mother and her husband. Normally, a person in Orestes' situation would quake as he awaited divine punishment, but not Orestes. He rises above such fear, shouting at Jupiter: “I am

https://twitter.com/hashtag/boycottnetflix?lang=en I'm not a big boycott guy, but Netflix has simply crossed the line too many times. And now a gay Jesus. And it's Christmas. I ain't gonna judge you if you don't cancel, but: you

> Seattle's homelessness crisis shows no sign of subsiding. Meanwhile, an agency tasked with tackling the issue spent taxpayer dollars on a strip show. @JasonRantz [https://twitter.com/jasonrantz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] https://t.co/3pwG0NyQaG > — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 17, 2019 [https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/