November 2012 – Halfthoughts

10 Bond Secrets We Will Never Know

November 25, 2012 Eric Priezkalns 0

Thanks to Skyfall, the new Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, we know more about James Bonds’ back story than ever before. We know he used to live in a big drafty house in Scotland […]

Escaping Sha’tar

November 18, 2012 Eric Priezkalns 1

“You overstay.” In one sense, she was right. I had overstayed. Anyone taking the lengthy bus ride from their plane to the arrivals terminal has already stayed too long in Sha’tar. Three years ago, when […]

The Two Who Strove

November 10, 2012 Eric Priezkalns 0

(a poem about the US Presidential election, with a humble nod to e e cummings) anyone lived in a pretty big country (where the people were one, as no-one would agree) winter spring summer and […]

Parallel Return of the Jedi: Swamp Gas

November 4, 2012 Eric Priezkalns 0

A few decades ago, a man sat in his office and realized that film-making was a hard way to make money. If he made a really popular film, then many people would pay for their […]