Steveawiggins

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• Publishing Deportment

  

  I don’t know if anybody reads this blog for publishing advice (editors are easily edited out, I know!).  But still, here goes.  It pays, in many ways, to... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Learning to Write

  

  If you’re not famous as a writer, nobody asks you for advice on improving their game. Part of that is simply having a writer’s outlook. We all have our own idea... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead Trilogy

  

  When we lived in New Jersey our internet wasn’t fast enough for streaming. I’d watched George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, but I was... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Level

  

  Jack Finney is probably best remembered as the person who came up with the idea for The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. His book, The Body Snatchers, was the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Oblong Box

  

  When Borders was closing—a sad day in the annals of American readers—things were marked down.  On one venture to a remaining store somewhere in New Jersey, wher... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ending the Cycle

  

  Curious to finish out the “Poe Cycle” of American International Pictures, I looked up The Oblong Box. The only thing similar to Poe’s tale is the title, as... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shocking Story

  

  Much of life, it seems, we got right in childhood.  We “grow up” only to learn that others are always right about any multitude of things.  Then you reach an ag... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Next Phase

  

  Sometimes I get things backwards. You have to understand that in the pre-internet era finding information was somewhat dicey. Those of us from small towns had... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Those Who Know

  

  I felt a little bit odd being asked.  A local school invited me to be consulted on classroom decoration.  I took a total of one class in interior design as an... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Escape Room

  

  I didn’t go out looking for horror films in 1979. I knew about Alien, of course. Everyone did. Even in a small town. I didn’t see the movie until many years... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mind the Gap

  

  One of the general rules for writers is not to engage in too many platforms on social media.  There are a few reasons for this advice, the largest one being... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• After Daytime

  

  When you’re looking for freebies to watch, it helps to get some advice of what to see. Particularly if it’s older (and more likely to be available). Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gray Matter

  

  It seems to me that I was living in Boston the last time I read Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. That was long enough ago to have forgotten almost... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thankful Time

  

  Thanksgiving’s late this year, for which I’m thankful.  I must be nearing retirement age because I really could use a little more time off. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hungry Eyes

  

  They’re watching.  All the time.  I may be a quasi-paranoid neo-Luddite, but I have proof!  Who’s the “they”?  Technology nameless here forevermore.  So my... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Plan 9

  

  Dementia 13 is a strange little movie. It’s Francis Ford Coppola’s directorial debut, and it was produced by Roger Corman and released by American... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Being Somebody

  

  I am deeply honored, and a little puzzled, to have been recently selected to appear in Marquis Who’s Who. It came out of nowhere. (Actually, LinkedIn.) As far a... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Alice’s

  

  Sometimes I forget that movies are entertainment. I mean, they’re big business and make some people obscene amounts of money. In that respect they’re serious. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Re-Unborn

  

  Some months ago I wrote a post about the possession movie The Unborn. I don’t watch movies to pass the time. I watch them to learn something. And many horror... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Suitable Genre

  

  As I muse over genres, it seems that “low-budget Lovecraftian horror” might be an—ahem—suitable one. This is perhaps because Lovecraft has trouble being taken... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY