Book Review: “Seeing”

I finished José Saramago’s Seeing yesterday. This novel, which was published in Portuguese in 2004 but released in an English translation this year, is the follow-up to Blindness, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. The events in Seeing occur four years following the epidemic of blindness that swept the population of the unidentified… Continue reading Book Review: “Seeing”

Random Thursday

Random Thursday will commence shortly but first I need to inform you that I’ve run into some problems with the next installment of Fire Ant Theatre. I’m in desperate need of a Spanish/Klingon dictionary, and it wouldn’t hurt if you could direct me to an audio loop of Red Skelton’s impersonation of Marilyn Monroe. Now,… Continue reading Random Thursday

Cruel Nature

It’s a tough world out there, and sometimes your best efforts to cope with it can backfire.