Dream Within A Dream: The Greatness Of Edgar Alexander Poe

Best Experienced by the mindful guidance of Propaganda...

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.



I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

The New Avengers (Thunderbolts*) Review...

Absolutely awesome! 

Tonight's Mission on Shhhh! Digital Media... Friday August 29, 2025

Its all very simple you see.

Here's the mission that I've been tasked with recently.

Publish latest Era of the Spellbound Audiobook episode... (Working on it).

Get drunk (I'm way ahead of schedule on that one).

Watch Thunderbolts* on DisneyPlus (I hope that I pass the Disney breathalizer because I've had a few, though been waiting for this moment for a long time).

Get inspired by the film, and reinstall The Avengers: The Definitive Edition and pass out drunk while playing.

Wake up. Make a fresh drink.

Watch Alien: Earth, and umpteen other movies and series I've been lusting after recently.

Check into rehab.

Not for drinking, but for streaming and movie consumption and Shōgun withdrawal.

For those of you who don't know, Shōgun withdrawal is kind of like Kim's Convenience withdrawal, but with Katanas thrown in for good measure. Keeping in mind that Appa is a qualified X-wing pilot, while Simu Liu is a qualified ten-rings pilot.

Now, consider all of that being red on my part insofar as sharing with you, especially to Google and YouTube and TikTok, who really make a lot of my audiobook content possible.

;-)

And that, my friends, is how you do it.

Happy Labour Day Weekend!

Brian <hicks> Joseph Johns...

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Wish you were here...