Andy Scott lives in Durham, NC with his wife and two daughters. He is a believer in the Oxford comma, occasionally writes things with words, and is not very good at Twitter. Follow him @_andy_scott_
Transformation, Kintsugi, and the Atomic Bomb
That the Day of Transfiguration is celebrated on August 6, also the seventy-first anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, challenges the notion that broken things must remain broken, and suggests that no one—not victims of conflict nor those guilty of the horrors of war—are beyond healing.
Faith and Doubt in Game of Thrones
The failure of Stannis and the faithfulness of Abraham serve as dual reminders that in order to be truly human, we must relinquish the idea of total control.
Noteworthy: Live Long and Prosper
On Mr. Leonard Nimoy
Noteworthy: Songs from the Grammys
A few weeks ago the music industry celebrated the Grammys, that sacrosanct annual self-congratulatory ceremony second only to the Oscars, for which I could not be paid to give to licks about. I know that Kanye made an ass of himself again, but I couldn’t tell you much more than that. A cursory Google search […]
Noteworthy: The Protean David Bowie
Perhaps no figure in modern pop culture has been as protean as David Bowie. It is precisely his shape shifting, however, that has made him a constant presence. From Space Oddity to Under Pressure, from Ziggy Stardust to Jareth the Goblin King, Bowie has found a way into our collective consciousness. How appropriate then, to […]
What was The Colbert Report?
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