Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4601 )

• Bounce Back

  

  I confess to being a graphomaniac.  I write a lot.  I’ve done this pretty much most of my life, and so I tend to have backlogs, both fiction and nonfiction. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Actual Intelligence

  

  Horror movies love a good sequel. A self-referential genre, there’s a lot of give and take and reassessing. I may have waited a little too long to watch M3GAN... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shopping News

  

  It’s one of the perils of the online age.  You order something online and the company (which has more money than a mere individual) asks you to pay for their... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Haunted

  

  Having watched Haunted Summer, I was curious about the origin of the screenplay. I’d read that the movie was based on a screen treatment by Anne Edwards, a... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Summers and Hauntings

  

  I’ve written before about that odd Ken Russell movie Gothic, one of my “old movies.” In case you missed it, the film is a fictional retelling of the gathering o... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just Average

  

  It certainly feels like it.  That web searching has grown a lot more frustrating since AI has taken over.  For some of us, Al has no idea how our minds work or... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Conan

  

  What are Weapons without a Barbarian? I learned about the latter movie after reading about the former. After watching Weapons I knew I had to see Barbarian. It... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Earnestly

  

  Christening.  The subject may sound old fashioned, but it was once, within Christendom, where a name was officially conferred. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Vampire’s Father

  

  I’d been very curious about D. L. Macdonald’s Poor Polidori for several years. This is not an easy book to find. (I have noted before that I find university... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Logan Again

  

  A couple of friends, both younger (ahem), liked my recent post on Logan’s Run. As did someone my post on Goodreads. I was pleased to see that. I was alive, but... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Entitlement

  

  I’ve been guilty of this myself, so the first stone is being cast straight up into the air over my own head.  Academic authors misunderstand how to title a book. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Vengeance Is Hers

  

  A Lesson in Vengeance, by Victoria Lee, is a novel with some twists that I’ll try to conceal. It is a kind of young adult horror-themed dark academia novel. I... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Accidentally Backward

  

  I watched Regression by accident. “How is that possible?” you might ask. Well, I don’t read up about movies before watching them. These days I try to save... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Second Friday the 13th

  

  It’s a measure of how regimented my life has become.  The 9-2-5 workday is ruled by the calendar in a way teaching wasn’t.  But on this, the second Friday the... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Please Read

  

  This post is longer than my usual fare, but it is important.  I’m putting the full text in “Full Essays” (the link is above, in the drop-down menu under the... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Talking Tolkien

  

  I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings back in college. Although I enjoyed them a great deal, they weren’t enough to swing me into high fantasy. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• AI Takeover

  

  It’s already beginning.  As if the world under Trump isn’t bad enough, AI (you can call me Al) is beginning to play its tricks.  You see, I know my place. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Creepy Cryptids

  

  J. W. Ocker and I have a few things in common. We’re both Edgar Allan Poe fans. We both have an interest in the odd. And we like to visit places where... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Googling Books

  

  I admit to Googling my own books from time to time.  (I know, I know!  You’ll go blind if you don’t stop doing that!)  Since I haven’t yet seen any royalties (o... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Demon Pop

  

  To be honest, I hadn’t even heard of KPop Demon Hunters. The places I look for media advice generally don’t cover such fare. I’m not into K-pop, Manga, or... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY