Steveawiggins

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• Just Handle It

  

  It happened again.  A few days ago I loaded my blog post and forgot to click “publish.”  The reason for this is probably silly.  Although I get out of bed... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Substitutes

  

  I discovered Mary Roach in a Borders store in Somerville, New Jersey. Well, it might’ve been Raritan, technically, but it was right off the infamous Somerville... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Intensity

  

  It was the biggest excuse for breaking up with me.  “You’re too intense.”  I lost track of the number of times college coeds told me that. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Glowing Television

  

  I saw some colleagues rather cagily recommending I Saw the TV Glow when it came out. Considered psychological horror, it is a bewildering film. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Crafting Byron

  

  For a man who lived to be only thirty-six, Lord Byron tends to be featured in very long biographies.  I’ve been curious about him, but maybe not to the tune of... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reclaiming the Past

  

  It started after Nashotah House.  That event shook me to my very core.  And I was approaching middle age.  I started taking an interest in my childhood. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Row Your Boat

  

  I’ve long wondered about what appear to be coincidences. Specifically, about movies on the same topic that seem to come out at around the same time. I saw Gothi... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Confidential Hazing

  

  Set in a Long Island prep school, among a somewhat secret society called the Players, this is a dark academia tale of murder and discovery. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Uncut

  

  I remember well the first time I encountered a book with uncut pages.  It was in Edinburgh and the book was mine on inter-library loan. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tambora Crisis

  

  The name Wolfgang Behringer was familiar to me from his book Witches and Witch-Hunts, which I read several years back. I’ve been interested in volcanoes... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Alien Signs

  

  Personally, I find alien home invasion movies scary. The combination of being awoken at night by a terror that seems plausible and the fact that there is nothin... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Machen’s Monstrance

  

  It was a coincidence worthy of a story written by a mystic.  Arthur Machen became famous for his novella The Great God Pan. Descended from a clergy family, his... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Growing

  

  A couple of years ago I posted about Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors. Now life is so busy that when Friday rolls around my wife and I find ourselves at... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Recipe for Childhood

  

  I once read that over the course of an average lifespan, an American will eat 73,646 pounds of food.  Think about that.  That’s over 36 tons of food.  Apiece. ... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leaving Soon

  

  I’d been hoping to read the novel before seeing the movie, but there’s nothing like the words “leaving soon” on your streaming service to spur you into action.... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Easter Flowers

  

  Easter is our springtime holiday of hope.  Flowers are starting to bloom and the cold spells, when they come, don’t last too terribly long. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Don’t Look

  

  The title of this movie could stop one word shy. Of course, I had been warned. Don’t Look Away is a low-budget horror film. A low budget in and of itself doesn’... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Help

  

  Helpmeet was recommended to me by a friend. Since most of my reading these days seems to be in the form of long books, I welcomed a brief one. And the story,... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Reservations

  

  Having watched, and liked, Oddity some months ago, I was glad when a friend told me that Caveat was by the same writer/director, Damian McCarthy. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First, Kings

  

  Recently I sat down to read 1 Kings.  Of course, I used to teach Hebrew Bible so I have more than a passing familiarity with it.  This time, though, I was... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY