The Pilgrim Geek

Minor Spoilers: I Hope You’ve Watched Stranger Things

August 23, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

I really hoped you’ve watched Stranger Things on Netflix. If you haven’t, I highly suggest that you close your laptop or put down your tablet and do so. It is a captivating, suspenseful and wonder-filled eight hours which you can definitely finish in time to read this post without falling behind here at NogginSquall. Spoilers do follow. It is rare that I finish watching a show (or reading a book for that matter), and immediately have to desire to dive…

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Coming attractions

August 16, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

Hey everybody! My sincere apologies. I don’t have a post for this week. I’ve been spending that last few days working on other projects., both personal and professional. All good stuff. But have no fear! The Squall is brewing up to some awesome content (at least I think it’s awesome). Here’s a taste of what to expect over the next few weeks (in no particular order; titles subject to alteration): Minor Spoilers: Stranger Things Genre Fiction and the Prophetic…

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Minor Spoilers (Comic Edition): Superman and Action Comics Introduce the Family-Man of Steel

August 9, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

Superman hasn’t received much love lately. Over the last decade, the Last Son of Krypton has had very few appealing story lines. Certainly a hero who is invulnerable to all but a couple very specific weakness (Kryptonite, red sunlight, magic), creates a some hurdles to overcome. And as of DC Comics’ The New 52 in 2011, and Zack Snyder’s depiction in The Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the most recent writing and marketing tactic has…

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A Morning by the Lobster Tank

August 2, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

Do you know what is one of the coolest looking creatures on planet earth? The Lobster. Lobsters are pretty frakking cool (as well as delicious, but I digress). I had forgotten just how bizarre they look. The shells, the claws, the antennae! To think, I had to be reminded of these crazy crustaceans that seem to fall right out of a 1930’s pulp sci-fi series by a three year old. Here’s a play-by-play. I am going about my weekly grocery…

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In the Notch

July 26, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

If you were ever in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, specifically in the Franconia Notch along I-93, before May 3, 2003 I hope you took the time to take in the view the Granite State’s Old Man of the Mountain. The natural rock formation overlooked Profile Lake with its broad, strong features carved out of granite by ancient glaciers. Until its fateful collapse behind the fog and clouds of the White Mountains in 2003, it was a site to be…

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Silence, Nostalgia, PokemonGo

July 19, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

If you can’t tell by how late on a Tuesday this post went up, I was struggling with what to write today. And if you read last week’s post, you know that our life (my and my wife’s) is in transition. We recently moved, I am looking for a new job, and we are overall getting used to life in a new place. Fun times. And I opened up laptop today to write and I could think of anything. What…

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Did Abram Cry for Haran?

July 12, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

My wife and I very recently moved. For reasons financial and otherwise, we packed up and left our faith community, our town, and the place where we met, dated, and were married. It has been a difficult transition with set-backs, confusion, doubt, and anger. And grief. There has been no shortage of grief. I have spent the last couple of months reading the opening chapters of Genesis in my spare time. Several weeks ago, I was reading about Abraham. If…

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Independence Day: Resurgence- Blockbuster Destruction and Minor Spoilers

July 5, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

Did you see Independence Day: Resurgence? I did. It didn’t stand out as a masterpiece but, by golly, it was so much fun. Space ships, lasers, Jeff Goldblum’s cynical quips. It even climaxed with a Cthulhu inspired, Kaiju-esque alien rampage. I ate my popcorn and watched the extraterrestrial mayhem unfold. So many explosions. And to my knowledge, it is the first time a mainstream movie has introduced the potential for a large space ship to have its own gravitational pull….

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Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Why You Should Check Out Crowdfunding

June 28, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

I used to really look down on crowdfunding. I was real jerk about it in fact. Shouldn’t these folks knuckle down and “get a real job?” Rather than simply sitting on the internet and panhandling for money? I used to consider it lazy. And I owe all the crowd-fundraisers out there an apology. Because I am an increasing proponent of crowdfunding. By the time I was 13, I had bought into the myth of the American Dream that hard physical…

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On Dirty Things

June 21, 2016 Dan Garrison Edwards Comments 0 Comment

I really enjoy dirt. More specifically I really enjoy gardening with my bare hands. I could buy gloves if I wanted to avoid soiling my hands, but then I wouldn’t get to feel the texture of the loam and the grains of sand. I wouldn’t be able to let the soil slip through my fingers and experience how coarse and rocky the earth may be. I may not really grasp whether or not something could grow. Knowing the soil helps…

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