Just before the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I posted an article on Medium titled “Putting a Cyclops In The Odyssey Is Woke Nonsense.”
A surprising number of people reacting to it didn’t seem to catch the fact that I was being facetious. The article was a satire of the overblown reaction from the far right to a highly anticipated film from an acclaimed director. Continue reading
Imagine if you will a world in which D.C. is corrupt. An election of an unsuspected candidate brings the promise of sweeping out the corruption. And someone tries to shoot him.
Something about this feels familiar. Continue reading
A shadow is rising in the East. Actually, it’s the West. It’s rising in the West. But it did rise east of here over seventy years ago. Continue reading
Last month we had Passover and Easter. We also had Holocaust Remembrance Day. We also had an announcement about a big Marvel film. We also had some significant events happen at Harvard.
This all brought to mind something I’ve been thinking about, and it has to do with a famous comic book character. Continue reading
Look, I get the criticism. The creators of Rings of Power are playing fast and loose with lore: Gandalf shouldn’t be here yet, Galadriel is in Numenor for some reason, the rings are supposed to take much longer to make, and dwarves are singing to rocks.
I get that the timeline is off.
And to some extent I even sort of understand a part of you being ever so slightly wanting to scratch your head at the technicality of an elf having a skin color other than “fair.” After all, even Tolkein had a gene of bigotry that loved an imaginary Nordic race above all. (But we’ll come back to that.) Of course, it’s just as much canon to assume that elves have pointy ears, as this is said nowhere in any Tolkien book. Continue reading
The past couple weeks have been prolific, particularly in satire.
Slackjaw published my piece, Jeff Bezos’s ‘Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’ Show Notes
And now that I’m a writer for Backyard Church, here’s my two latest articles there:
We’re A Church Who Loves the Idea of Racial Diversity
and
Hey folks. Got a new piece published in Slackjaw this week.
My Name Is Bruce Wayne and Trauma Is My Superpower.
Check it out here.
I have a theory about the movie NOPE. And nope, I have not yet seen it. Continue reading
I think the creators of the Netflix hit show Ozark borrowed from a famous hundred-year-old novel.
I realized this as I came to the last episode of Ozark. The story is sort of a rural, modern Gatsby tale. I mean, if you always understood Fitzgerald’s masterpiece to be about the American Dream and not just a love story.
This week I’m reblogging a post from 6 years ago about Batman villains. In the spirit of this year’s film release of The Batman and it’s hit villain, The Riddler.
CALEB COY 