Books, Sports, Rhymes & Life
If it’s going to take years for something to happen, it better be worth the wait. With that in mind, for my first podcast appearance, I was lucky to have the opportunity to talk about my absolutely favorite album, Wu-Tang Forever.
Continue reading “Wu-Tang Podcast: “Wu-Tang Forever” [Disc 2] featuring Christopher Pierznik”
The May edition of my monthly newsletter, including book reviews. Please subscribe!
Continue reading “The Pierznik Monthly Newsletter Volume 44 (May 2018)”
Things almost never work out as planned.
Logically, we know this. We understand this. We accept this.
And yet we’re still surprised, and sometimes even wrecked, when it happens.
For the vast majority of us, it takes time to make money and, traditionally, it took more time to make more money (overtime pay is the most basic example of this). The paradox, of course, is that we don’t have time to actually enjoy the money we’re making and are instead on just running on the human hamster wheel.
This is why everyone is so obsessed with passive income and why The Four-Hour Workweek continues to sell copies year after year. We want more of our time without giving up our money. We want to keep the same lifestyle that our money afford us — house, car, spending cash — but we want to also have the time to actually enjoy those things.
I find it astounding just how important Twitter has become to life, particularly in the United States. It’s fun for jokes and music releases and live-tweeting sporting events or award shows, but it affects the country in profound ways, from the economy to national security to pop culture and sports. The latter two may seem minor in comparison, but they are billion dollar industries that are a real part of the national conversation.
I’ve noticed my old, bad tendencies continue to flare up over the past couple of years and the coping mechanisms to which I immediately default. I can tell the difference in my attitude and temperament, even my perspective.
What if Superman existed in our current reality? How would the world react to a literal illegal alien — the ultimate immigrant — with godlike abilities? And how would he, in turn, react to the world?
Continue reading “The Brilliance of Zack Snyder’s DC Universe”
The April edition of my monthly reading review list.
Continue reading “The Pierznik Monthly Reading Review Volume 43 (April 2018)”
It’s tempting to try to jump on a trend.
I’m willing to bet that many of us that (try to) write have seen a post that looks like it wasn’t very difficult to write go on to do big numbers and major engagement.
I know I have.
I read it and thought to myself, I can do that.
So I did it.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has completely changed Hollywood. From the proliferation of comic book heroes to the notion that every major movie studio now needs its own universe in which its characters can interact through multiple films, Marvel has laid the path that all others are following, praying that they will find the same success. The films within the MCU have combined for a box office total of an estimated $14.8 billion worldwide, including five films raking in more than a billion each. In short, “Marvel has made consistent hits, which is supposedly impossible in a creative business.” But, to hear some tell it, Marvel’s record is not perfect and there are a few black marks on the studio’s résumé.
Actually, one of those marks is green.
