The Postmodern Pelican

The world can be a hopelessly confusing place when you are forced to navigate it on your own, especially if you exist within the half of the global population that is regularly subjected to judgment, bigotry and acts of blatant inequality. This is somet...

“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen – you can never have too much” – Thomas Pynchon may have only written these words in his novel Bleeding Edge about a decade ago, but they’re extremely resonant for anyone who is aware of his writing care...

Everyone has their list of dreams, which can range from the ambitious to the outright unrealistic. In either case, even those who may not necessarily pursue a particular goal still can enjoy the very idea of it, especially when it comes to the more scin...

There is history embedded in the land on which we walk – and the same can be said for the people themselves. Each one of us can be considered an ambulatory archaelogical sites, where our own pasts are buried deep in our souls, and where only certain peo...

There are some phrases that become so entrenched in the cultural consciousness that they are able to exist even outside of the context in which they were originally said. For many viewers, the sentence “why don’t you have a seat right over there?” immed...