Color me a sucker for any ancient epic battle where a bunch of guys with spears and shields fend off a vengeful horde. Frank Miller’s 300 found it’s way into my eager hands. The art is classic miller in it’s iconographic depiction of Leonidas, and the elite Greek 300. The comic presents few problems even …
Category Archive: Literature
Mar
12
Jan
25
U-505
I’ve wanted to see the U-505 for a few years now. I remember seeing the replica of the U-36 in Raiders of the Lost Ark and wondering how a tiny little ship with wooden decks would survive beneath the waves. The submarine service fascinates me. And like many men my greatest regret, or at least …
Oct
25
National Novel Writer’s Month-November, Are You Fit Enough?
Just like running a marathon, writing a novel takes discipline. I can speak from experience on both. I do both in a mediocre fashion. The question is, are you fit enough to do it? Can you write 1666 words per day to total 50,000 words? I think I can do it! I wrote my first …
Jun
20
Tail Wind
Tail Wind While she sits mired in windless doldrums in the castle of our domesticity, like Penelope weaving an endless blanket for our empty wedding bed, I beat my blades like wings in quick rythmic loops to catch the wind. To paddle downwind is to sail like shadows of cormorants before a gale at twelve …
Jun
07
Nestor
When I first got into kayaking I was thrown by how young I was compared to everyone else. I am still a young pup compared to the average age of paddlers in WMCKA. Alex Pak is probably the closest to my age and attitude towards paddling that I’ve come across. But of course Alex is …
May
23
The ode to John Grady Cole
I used to think that every word out of my mouth was funny, wise, or whimsically beautiful. I used to feel impervious to criticism. Participating in writer’s groups and workshops will steel you for some pretty mean shit. But the idea that you have something worthwhile to say that other people would be interested in …
Apr
26
Blood of the Father
Last post got me to thinking about the defining moments in any young man’s life. I am blessed in my own way to know what that moment was in my father’s life, or at least what he has told me that moment was. And in sharing that moment with me, I have a better grasp …
Apr
09
High Fidelity
Top 5 reasons to paddle. Ok these are my thoughts on the subject and are somewhat didactic and maybe even contradictory. 1. Paddling is linear and analog. Very few things are these days. It gives no regard to hurry, or any other timetable other than wind, sun, moon, and stars. Like Peter Fonda in Easy …
Mar
10
The Inner Jack Aubrey
I’ve been reading the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin series, of the _Master and Commander Far Side of the World_ movie fame. I can truthfully say I like the movie. Though the story in the film has an incindental if not tangential relationship to the texts it purports to be translated from. But the actual novel, Far …
