Shannon Costello

Obesity is a private issue and we do not need Big Brother wagging his finger at us every time somebody wants to eat a doughnut.  If someone wants to be a little heavier because they enjoy eating food that tastes good, that’s a person’s personal right.      
—-Justin Wilson, The Center for Consumer Freedom

Demand for fantasy has been high since Harry Potter hit the shelves. I suppose this is why Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel is only now being made into a movie.
The Dark is Rising is one of a sequence of five fantasy novels about an epic battle between good and evil. Throughout human history [...]

“It’s mine but you can have some-with you I’d like to share it!
‘Cause if I share it with you-you’ll have some too!”
After a week of listening to high-quality kids’ music and various dining out experiences (one of which I promised not to blog about- does this count, Tara?), I offer the following dessert [...]

With what effrontery, then, with what assurance, with what impudence, with what folly, or rather insanity, do they refuse to impute these disasters to their own gods, and impute the present to our Christ! (106)
Augustine had hundreds of years of Roman history in which to locate a myriad of disasters to repeatedly make his point. [...]

Today wasn’t pretty.
I had some sort of orange creme drink at Starbucks (300 calories) and a milkshake at Johnny Rocket’s (1000 calories- compare to 400 in a Frosty… this site provides details) Ouch.
I went to an 11 AM movie today, which interfered with lunch. Meal-time changes problematic in that they often [...]

I generally forget to consider the detrimental affects of empty calories on one’s health, but the reading I have done about them raises painful questions. I will say that here I am primarily concerned with junk food.
During the course of one week at school I ate, among other things,
one package of peanut-butter m&ms- [...]

I only checked out George Orwell’s 1984 because of its popularity in literary circles. And I only kept reading it because of its popularity in literary circles.
For those who have not read it, the sentence that sums it up is “Big Brother is watching you!” This sentence is so much a part of [...]