The older, heavyset man is the evening janitor at Hammonton Regional Hospital. Night after night, his long white hair, and bushy beard bounce gently as he sweeps, and mops the waiting area of the Trauma/ER department. He carefully empties the discarded coffee cups; takes the abandoned rosary beads to the chapel on…
“The shot heard around the world”. Historians hear the phrase and inevitably point to the bullet which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and triggered the start of World War One. Or, they start singing Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 Concord Hymn, about the start of the American Revolution. “Here once the embattled farmers stood, And…
At the end of Ben Edlund’s satisfying, but gut-wrenching “How To Win Friends, and Influence Monsters”, three questions were burning through my mind, repeating like a bad case of acid reflux.
“IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND” by Lightfoot & Winchester Over the years, Supernatural has shown it can stretch beyond its classic rock roots. We’ve seen Dean lip-synching to Air Supply, Bobby referencing Joni Mitchell and Sam choosing to put Jason Manns on his iPOD playlist. Still, I doubt Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot will…
“We’re all we’ve got left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything. If we don’t have each other, we don’t have anything.” (The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton) The Winchesters are often described as “outsiders”. They see themselves in that light, especially when they use it as a synonym for “freak”. They…
THE LIMITS OF THE LEAD FRIGGIN’ MARBLE BOX “I keep my marbles in a lead friggin’ box” – Dean Winchester THEN: A small boy crouches on the floor. His blonde hair and freckles sparkle in the afternoon sunshine, as do the marbles he’s surrounded by. His green eyes squint in concentration as he rolls…
“Maybe Angels Don’t Need to Breathe?” Mental Replays from “Meet The New Boss” I don’t know if it’s just me, but sometimes I feel like there’s a PVR or TIVO hard-wired into my brain. I can be washing dishes when I’ll start thinking of a moment from a favourite movie. A particularly poignant paragraph…
HEAD OUT ON THE HIGHWAY, LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE A Winchester Family Road Trip (sort of) I’m feeling a certain empathy with John Winchester these days. Sadly, it’s not because I drive a gorgeous, vintage, black car. No. I drive a blue Honda minivan, known to my children as “Bob”. (It’s a long…
MISSING: 1 Jacket + 1 Necklace ““ EXTREME Sentimental Value (We all know that Sam and Dean Winchester spend much of their time trying to avoid the justice system. They’ve had many run-ins with the law and it has never worked out well. The police rarely understand what they’re trying to do, and…
A Supernatural Symphony (in 6 variations and 22 parts) Let me tell you my story. Let me tell you everything. Castiel Thus begins the brilliant and heart wrenching, “The Man Who Would Be King.” But really, so begins almost every story ever told. From the instant that little Fish (for which…
Paging the Winchester Pest Control Company, or Help! There’s an Alpha under my desk! Watching the wonderfully bright and entertaining “Frontierland” episode, and enjoying Dean in his new position of authority as the Sheriff, I got thinking back to a few of the more interesting jobs I’ve held over the years. Then I started…
RANDOM UNPREDICTABLE EVIL Do you ever feel like the writers of Supernatural have climbed into your head, and decided to write episodes based on what’s happening in your life at that moment? Okay, it’s not like I’m battling a bunch of Alpha monsters (although I have encountered many of them at work over…
