Unwinnable

A couple of weeks ago, my son Halford Ash was born. If you believe the warnings, rumors and wives’ tales, such an event is seismic. Your life, they say, will never be the same. In the months prior to the boy’s arrival, I have done everything I could to get my mind right. I imagined a life without videogames and metal shows. I tried to imagine how I’d fit into that kind of life, not because I thought that all of those things would be gone from my life with the arrival of my new offspring, but because I had, and still do, have a hard time imagining the degree to which my life would change. (more…)

From the first line of the Genesis 1:3 to the radioactive arachnid bite that turned scrawny Peter Parker into a spider-man to the titular face-hugging creature in Alien, the greatest stories ever told all owe their beginnings to a single metaphorical light-bulb going off in someone’s head. (more…)