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The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America [https://splicer.com/book_review/opinions-shockingly-based-facts-and-analysis/], Kenneth Pollack A Deepness in the Sky [https://splicer.com/book_review/spiders-no-not-mars/] and A Fire Upon The Deep [https://splicer.com/book_review/what-sci-fi-

In the past few days I’ve seen two mainstream films with very explicit sex scenes. By “mainstream” I don’t mean Hollywood, they are both definitely arthouse films with independent studios and distribution. But both want to be taken seriously as art and carry the NC-17 rating rather

Such a fan as I am of the Russian authors, it’s surprising even to me that I waited so long to be acquainted with Tolstoy. Anna Karenina was a long and challenging read, but in the end very rewarding. As the opening lines indicate, this is a book about

This is a reread. It was the first of Solzhenitsyn’s work I ever read and it started me on a lifelong fanhood. I don’t know why I get so much out of reading about Soviet labor camps, but I do seem to have an obsession with oppressive regimes.

After calling SGI and asking what the last supported version of IRIX would be for an Indigo2 workstation, I spent an exorbitant amount of money for a secondhand set of CDs on ebay. OK, not exorbitant compared to the $600 retail price of IRIX, but still more than I’ve

So today at the Intensive Outpatient Program we had Art Therapy. We were supposed to draw something representing the theme “compassion.” Well, my art needs some therapy; I’ve been frustrated over my seeming complete inability to put pen and paper. I’ve been totally blocked and honestly terrified of

This was another short one, but the eighteenth-century language was a little difficult to wade through. With overcomplicated compound sentences, I got a little of an idea of what a chore it must be to read my writing. It was not as relevant a read as I expected. I