(Holidays) Is Columbus (Leif Eriksson) Day Worth Celebrating?

October 10, 2011

Is Columbus Day worth celebrating? Perhaps some heavy metal songs can tell us.

(Metal and. . .) Passover: How Metallica Explains the Book of Exodus

April 18, 2011

In this post we’ll take a look at one of the great stories of the Bible/Torah, that of the Israelite …

June 22, 2010

The summer solstice is also called “Litha,” a name that gives us our word lithe, meaning “graceful, pleasant, mild,” among …

May 30, 2010

Sorry about the posting layoff. After building up some good momentum, cataclysmic flooding destroyed my childhood home in Tennessee, and …

March 29, 2010

Ok, I dropped the ball on this one. Ragnar Lodbrok’s Day is actually on March 28, but yesterday I was …

March 15, 2010

Beware the Ides of March. So sayeth the soothsayer. We briefly foreshadowed this event last month in my piece on …

March 12, 2010

Steve Harris, the bassist, creative soul, and emotional leader of Iron Maiden, turns 55 today. Steve, or ‘Arry as he’s …

February 21, 2010

Watching the US Women’s Curling team take on Sweden tonight, the commentators of CNBC brought up this little gem… Curling …

February 19, 2010

62 years ago today, Tony Iommi was born in Birmingham, England, the son of Italian immigrants. Seventeen years later, another …