A Brief History On September 18, 2026, survival horror film Resident Evil was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Releasing in the United States of America. Co-written and directed by Zach Cregger, a comedian with horror film credentials (Barbarian and Weapons), viewers should not be surprised that this reboot of the eight film cinematic series based on a video game goes into the realm of “Horror/Comedy” for the first time. Digging Deeper While retaining the monstrous abominations of mutated people and creatures familiar to the game and the other films, Cregger manages to give our beleaguered protagonist some comedic situations, lines,…
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A Brief History On September 14, 2008, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was published by Scholastic Press. Digging Deeper This initial novel about a dystopian American/North American future is only one of many such works of fictional dystopian futures, but while this particular genre of novel has long captivated Americans and other readers, the Hunger Games franchise spawned four other novels in the same literary universe, sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay, and two prequels, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and the 2025 release, Sunrise at the Reaping.. Excellent novels all, not surprisingly each of the first four novels in…
A Brief History On September 30, 2024, we celebrated another National Chewing Gum Day, which brings us the question, “Who invented chewing gum?” Who do we have to thank for this tasty treat? Digging Deeper The answer is not so simple. While we generally think of chewing gum as a product of chicle from Latin America, the predecessors of modern chewing gum go back thousands of years in a wide variety of resins, saps, plants and other concoctions people used to satisfy their need to chew. Ancient Finns and Ancient Greeks chewed tree products that they flavored, while the Aztecs…
A Brief History On September 29, 1758 (New Style Calendar), one of the greatest naval heroes of all time was born, Horatio Nelson, the man that would become Vice Admiral and 1st Viscount Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar. Nelson’s career was one of consistent valor which cost him most of the sight in one eye and his right arm, before he was killed in action at Trafalgar, truly a masculine, “manly” man in the traditional sense. Digging Deeper Today, in the 21st Century, the thousands of years of human evolution to value strong, brave, “manly” men is being called “toxic…
A Brief History On September 29, 2024, we celebrate another National Coffee Day, reveling in our appreciation for that “Cup of Joe,” “Shot of Caffeine,” “Java,” “Go Juice,” or whatever you want to call it. Hot or cold, coffee keeps America going to the tune of 400 million cups a day! Digging Deeper Nearly half of all Americans drink coffee, and the US is the largest consumer of coffee among all countries. On the other hand, per capita coffee consumption leaves the US back at #25, while Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden lead the per capita race,…