Author Archives

• Author Interview: Philip Matyszak

  By ericmbosarge on July 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Philip Matyszak is the author of over 20 books, mostly non-fiction. He’s been interested in the ancient world since his parents purchased him a set of little plastic hoplites at some point in the late 1960s. Since then his interest… Read More ›

• Revisited: Ancient Aliens Episode 5

  By ericmbosarge on July 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Joe: Wormholes! Stargates! Magic talismans that open stargates! I feel like, watching this episode, that earthquakes are not really earthquakes. Instead, they’re old stargates rumbling with pent up energy, or wormholes opening down beneath the layers of sedimentary rock, where… Read More ›

• Fantasy with Attitude: The Gallows Black by Sam Sykes

  By ericmbosarge on June 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  If you want an action-packed fantasy beach read, this is the one. Told by Sal The Cacophony, (think Guy Pierce in Lockout) a hitwoman with a magic hand cannon of a gun that fires rounds fueled by the ashes of… Read More ›

• The Eternity of Art: Craig Laurence Gidney’s A Spectral Hue

  By ericmbosarge on June 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The town of Shimmer, Maryland, has drawn various African American artists for centuries. Although the artists used different mediums, from quilts to dolls to oil, they all use the same hauntingly unique, shifting color of a marsh bell orchid to… Read More ›

• “The Knife in our Soul”: Robert Brockway’s The Unnoticeables

  By ericmbosarge on June 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Whether it’s Binary, HTML, Spanish, Cuneiform, or Sanskrit, there’s no denying language is how we store knowledge and no matter what someone says, we have no language to accurately describe the concept of God. Alpha and omega, Allah, Michael and… Read More ›

• All Hail the King: A Beginner’s Guide to Stephen King

  By ericmbosarge on June 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  if you’re new to Stephen King, where do you start? Which of his 50+ novels are worth reading? Joe and I share our favorites.

• “Make Me the Monster I Need to be”: Half-Witch by John Schoffstall

  By ericmbosarge on June 13, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  How many of us do the right thing when no one is looking? Function on the superego level all the time? Or are we all calculating ambition, ruled by the id and the ego’s veiled self-interest? Altruism is out of… Read More ›

• A Continuum of Tragedy: See You Yesterday

  By ericmbosarge on June 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Netflix’s latest foray into the sci-fi time travel genre, See You Yesterday, takes on a difficult issue with class. It’s is about a young girl, CJ, played by Eden Duncan-Smith, and her best friend who travel back in time to… Read More ›

• Strong Roots: Family in Jade City by Fonda Lee

  By ericmbosarge on June 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re all products of our family. Our parents shape us and we bear the burden of living under their thumbs. Rebel or conform at your peril. When your family is the mafia, rebellion comes at a cost. The award winning… Read More ›

• Revisited: Ancient Aliens Episode #1

  By ericmbosarge on June 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Eric: So, I need to go on record and say when you suggested we watch Ancient Aliens, the first thing I wanted to ask was, did you vaccinate your kid? This whole show is a conspiracy theorists’ wet dream that… Read More ›