what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “Teresa remembered the DTI joke that all temporal investigations eventually led to the Enterprise. It was an exaggeration, and was meant to apply to all starships of that name, which tended to have a disproportionate involvement with temporal phenomena. But it mostly applied to the Federation’s first Enterprise, NCC-1701, whose captain — James Tiberius […]
{4/5} “You’re a jerk, jerk, jerk. But I like the sound of your voice.” Mercer’s mom has died so he decides to steal a car and go find his half brother so he can tell him. His half-brother is a bit of a drifter, though, so it might be tough to find him. But Mercer […]
{4/5} “At my age I’ve seen about all that life has to dish out. I know to separate the wheat from the chaff, let the small stuff fall away.” Alvin’s brother has suffered a stroke. Even though the two of them said unthinkable things to each other 10 years ago, he decides he needs to […]
{4.5/5} “But there are things you can do that nobody else can. Important things. Things that can mean the difference between life and death for a whole lot of people.” Clark Kent has been struggling with what to do with his life — his parents always wanted him to do what makes him happy. He’s […]
{4.5/5} “Dahl weaved through the trees, screaming for Q’eeng and Taylor. Some part of his brain wanted to know if he was running in the right direction; another part wanted to know why he wasn’t using his phone to contact Q’eeng. A third part reminded him that he had a pulse gun of his own, […]
{4/5} “There’s nothing wrong with being scared, Norman, so long as you don’t let it change who you are.” Norman can see and talk to dead people, and there are a bunch of them in his town. Of course, everyone else thinks he’s strange and makes fun of him because of this. He does manage […]
{4/5} “I don’t have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur.” Eddie has a book contract but he’s having trouble with the actual writing. His girlfriend has just dumped him, so he’s going to need to make some money. A chance encounter with his ex-brother-in-law leads him to try a new drug that […]
{4.5/5} “One of the unackknowledged parts of the DTI’s job was to keep knowledge of temporal incidents from being any more widely disseminated than it had to be. The more rare and unlikely the public believed temporal displacement to be, the less chance there was of idiots trying to slingshot around their local suns to […]
{4.5/5} “You know, you and me, trekking through the jungle, on our way to do something that we don’t quite understand. Good times.” We find out what the whispers in the jungle are, the identity of the black smoke monster, why Jacob brought people to the island, and the origins of Jacob and the Man […]
I went to the performance of the Guelph Symphony Orchestra titled “American Rhapsody.” This is the first time I’ve seen this orchestra. I know and love all four pieces they played — Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and “Hoe-Down,” George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.” “Hoe-Down” is part […]