Brian Forrest

This time of the year brings two questions to the minds of most Westerners.  First, how will romance find me and how will I find it?  And second, how will we survive after the collapse of society when everything we’ve ever worked for is meaningless?  These intertwined questions can be addressed, at least in...
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Let’s get it out in the open– guitar solos are boring.  Even drum solos– the punchline to every musical parody– are less predictable in their arc and placement than the guitar solo.  They’re also rarer, so points for that small mercy. Some disclosure: I approached musical maturation under the tutelage of Queensryche, early Metallica,...
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With The Hobbit, Part 1 of Question Mark now in wide release, the internet needs to prepare itself for the deluge of dweebs who will surely take issue with this or that aspect, citing the Silmarillion and the notes of Christopher Tolkien like they were writing a legal brief.  Their complaints will be about...
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