Author Archives: kerryanderson
Review: Bad Religion
In the 1950′s and early 60′s, the three greatest English-speaking poets were all Christian converts (Auden, Eliot, and Robert Lowell). Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy, and Flannery O’Connor, and Dorothy Day were all writing high-brow literature. Tolkien and Lewis were both writing some of the 20th century’s most enduring works of fantasy. Reinhold Niebuhr, [...]
Reading: A Memory of Light
Can you grow old with friends you’ve only met in books? Do you grow apart from your book friends as time passes like you do from real friends? I just finished the last book in a series 23 years in the making. It’s called The Wheel of Time and it’s a massive fourteen-book (plus prequel) [...]
Friendsgiving
Recently, I went to an event called “Friendsgiving.” Friendsgiving is Thanksgiving with your friends, rather than your family. Everyone brings a dish, unless your me, in which case you bring the booze. It has become an annual thing amongst my friends in the city (who are much cooler than the losers who populate this blog; though they are less male and less conservative so their hair isn’t as good).
Vampirism and The Arcadian Trap
Written by Drew Curle, Esq.
I recently watched “The Lost Boys” for the first time. It was on TV, and it was very late. I did not really want to be watching this movie. And yet it pulled me in. This is because what I had assumed to be nothing but an 80′s camp-fest is actually an insight into the mind of the contemporary hipster.
The Guilty Subconscious: A Post-Everything Mashup
The first time I typed in the URL for this blog on my work computer, I typed theguiltyconscious.wordpress.com. I don’t know what switching conscience for conscious unconsciously says about me, but I do have a list of alternate names for this blog that arose as a result: 1) The Guilty Conscious – QED 2) The [...]
