Melody and the Pier to Forever
Blog URL http://thepiertoforever.blogspot.com
Located San Diego, California USA
Tags book reviews, movie reviews, fantasy novel, writing, self-publishing, living authentically, environment, individualism, courage
You can access the popular fantasy novel here, as well as read articles, movie and book reviews, and essays from Shawn Michel de Montaigne.
Latest Blog Posts
- Precious and Ghastly on Nov 11, 2009 in Erich Fromm manipulative intelligence Chris Luttenegger Precious and Ghastly Rose and Jerry corporatism precious truths ghastly construction gangs are corporates integrity
I've been thinking of Gracian's observation that the truths that matter most to us are always hidden, kept out of sight by others. We aren't told these precious truths because others know how precious those truths are to us, and thus, because their v...
- The Quill on Nov 4, 2009 in U2 at the Rose Bowl herd mentality the Quill popularity U2 coming to Anaheim in June
This is how you do a rock concert right.I've watched it twice now.It's like going to church. But a church I've never been to: one that lifts you, truly lifts you, while, paradoxically, grounding you more firmly to the earth than ever before. Can art...
- A Novel Family on Oct 27, 2009 in rejection what family means paranoia a novel family Melody and the Pier to Forever family dishonesty
[The following story is true.]The word family has become, in the last 25 years, a curse word: I honestly don't know what it means anymore.I'm trying to relearn, to unconfuse myself.Every so-called friend and parent of that so-called friend, every gir...
- March 17, 1929 -- October 25, 1984 on Oct 17, 2009 in Kathleen Helbert
On October 25, 1984 Kathleen Carol Helbert died of two terminal illnesses, muscular dystrophy and Louis J. Helbert, Jr., her ex-husband. Until very recently, she was the only true family I ever had.It has been twenty-five years since her death. She p...
- Reflections On Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" on Oct 11, 2009 in capitalism is morally repugnant planned obsolescence America is dead Michael Moore
I have had to learn to sew.Being poor does that to you. Things have to last. You don't have the dough to buy new stuff once a rip appears in your clothes or a hole forms in your backpack.But things don't last. Not under the morally repugnant model kn...
- The Human Mutt on Oct 4, 2009 in rejection John Mattos Bob Myers true family abandonment Amy Mills Nancy Hoffman Louis Helbert adoption Julie Mills
On a cold March night back in '61, a nineteen-year-old woman and an army officer (I presume, knowing the woman as I do) drove up Boulder Canyon, where, at some secluded location, they parked. She was eager to get in his pants, because, as she would c...
- Perhaps the Worst Ending to a Series in Television History: Prison Break on Sep 25, 2009 in television exists to brainwash television exists to sell shit Prison Break television exists to maintain the status quo
My television isn't hooked up to the cable. Aside from David Letterman and Saturday Night Live, I don't miss commercial television one bit. Television, as one former advertising copywriter took pains to remind me, exists solely to sell stuff--tampons...
