Steveawiggins

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• Eating Conscience

  

  Elections notwithstanding, people—at least many of them—are becoming more accepting of those of us who are different.  Or so it seems on the ground, in some... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Life Plant

  

  If your backyard is like mine, you’ll find The Ruins scary. It’s pretty scary even if your plant-control skills are better than mine. There’ll probably be some... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dark Academia

  

  is the new gothic.  It’s all the rage on the internet, as I found out by releasing a YouTube video on the topic that quickly became my most popular. Still, I wa... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Sleepy

  

  One thing I quickly learned when beginning work on Sleepy Hollow as American Myth was that the story hadn’t really been studied too much by those with academic... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sowing Seeds

  

  The Bad Seed is one of the scariest movies Stephen King lists from about 1950 to 1980. Like many movies from before my time, I was unaware of it. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Time

  

  Speaking of time… Time is one of those things that flummoxes me. A time change, crossing time zones, trying to figure things out on a base-6 system (metric... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Out of Time

  

  I don’t know about you, but I seldom think of Venezuelan cinema. I feel a strange satisfaction, however, that the highest grossing movie produced in that countr... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Festival Spirit

  

  Festivals.  These common events, often outdoors, are ways to be around other people while not really seriously engaging them.  I spend a lot of time by myself,... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bodies Cubed

  

  It’s difficult to know where to start with Bodies Bodies Bodies. It was on my watchlist because it was distributed by A24. I’ve come to trust them for smart... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paranormal Religion

  

  I remember well what it was like to be an evangelical. Measuring everything by what I thought the Bible said, fearing those things that seemed to come from... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hiding Kirk

  

  I recently saw—don’t ask where—a U.S. Space Force officer dressed in camouflage.  How fitting for a Trump-era agency.  I should think a Space Force uniform... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hunting

  

  Every once in a while, I see a movie I should’ve seen a long while ago. The Night of the Hunter is one such film. Knowing little about it, I watched and was... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Vlad Fest

  

  I may or may not have read at least part of this book before. When I found it at a used book sale somewhere, it looked familiar. Having read it, I’m not sure... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Locating Yourself

  

  How do you come to where you spend your life?  It could be where you’re born.  I was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania.  Neither of my parents were.  On my mother’... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Fantasy

  

  There’s a reason I watch horror. One of the many things you can’t find online is how popular movies were before the internet days. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Firebrands

  

  Although I’ve never lived there, I believe I have a fairly good idea of life in Ithaca, New York.  I’ve spent many, many days there over the past few years,... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Alien Invaders

  

  I’ve been pondering genre for some time now. And since Stephen King assures me (not personally) that Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers is horror, I figured I’d give... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thinking About Vampires

  

  Any book on vampires has to be limited. I first read Matthew Beresford’s From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth back in 2009. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Vampire Or Not?

  

  I’d heard that Martin was a depressing movie but I felt I should watch a Romero film that wasn’t about zombies. I’d read bits and snatches of what happens, but ... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Consciousness Conscience

  

  Not so long ago—remember, I read old books—living to 60 was considered a full life.  I’ve passed that and while I’m in no hurry to shuffle off this mortal... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY