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• Deep Backlist

  

  It’s kind of a personal archaeology.  Exploring the terrain of one’s own mind, that is.  Back in January, I mentioned my “deep backlist,” which is actually my... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• To Dracula, a Daughter

  

  Nosferatu, by F. W. Murnau, was deemed in copyright violation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and ordered destroyed. Rights to the novel were properly purchased by... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Imagine Monsters

  

  Adulthood is where you begin to recognize the folly of growing up.  Like most people, when I “matured” I was ashamed of things I made as a child and,... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stop for a Bite

  

  Universal does monsters right. I’m no movie maven but I don’t know why the whole Dark Universe thing didn’t work out. These movies are good! Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Indigenous Gods

  

  Engulfed by capitalism, it is too easy to ignore the indigenous population of this country. I grew up thinking, in some way, that American Indians were extinct... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead Darlings

  

  The thing about being a writer is that there’s no one size fits all. I watched Kill Your Darlings because it is an example of dark academia, or so it’s sometime... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First Tower

  

  In these days when daring to think feels dangerous, R. F. Kuang’s Babel: An Arcane History feels dangerous to read. Good literature is like that, even if it’s... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Undead Again

  

  I had intended to see it in the theater, but holidays are family time. And not everyone is a fan of horror. Last night I finally did get to see Robert Eggers’... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Asteroid

  

  So, that asteroid.  Good thing Trump won’t be in office in 2032.  Well, it’s only a three percent chance it’ll hit us, but chances are things can’t get much... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sounds Funny

  

  It may be the strangest vampire film ever. Lifeforce not only postulates the origins of vampires as beings from space who come to suck humans dry of their souls... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Praise of Paper

  

  I write quite a lot.  I’ve done so for decades.  As I’ve tried to carve out a writer’s life for myself I noticed a few things.  I’ll start a story or novel and... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Power of

  

  One rare treat is rediscovering something that intrigued you as a young person, but which you’d completely forgot. Living in a small town and seldom going to... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Staunching Stigma

  

  Independence Day is not a great movie. As my readers know, that doesn’t stop me from watching. I’ve seen it a few times. Watching it post-UFO/AUP disclosure... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Peak Del Toro

  

  Crimson Peak is perhaps my favorite Guillermo del Toro movie. Gothic to the hilt, the story—a bit overwrought—features plenty of ghosts and a house appropriate... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Plea

  

  One literary Saturday recently I found myself in the attic.  When we first moved to this house I sometimes wrote up there but I quickly learned that with no... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Somehow Inevitable

  

  You had to expect me to write about Zontar: Thing from Venus. I bought the “Beast Collection” set to see it many years ago. In those days I tried to watch the... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pet Theory

  

  We don’t have any pets.  At least not beyond the spider near the sink that I don’t have the heart to release outdoors in winter temps.  But I have had. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Search Continues

  

  This movie’s so bad there’s a backstory. Years ago I was really wanting to see Zontar: Thing from Venus. This was before streaming, and I found it as part of th... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weather Bugs

  

  In one part of my life (ahem) I’m compelled to use Microsoft Windows products.  (In my personal life I’ve used Macs since before 1990. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Vampyr

  

  Early movies are fascinating. I learned of Vampyr, a 1932 production by Carl Theodor Dreyer, from Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu’s In Search of Dracula,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY