Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4648 )

• Movies, Paused

  

  Technology breaks the world into bits.  It’s not just pixels, or 1s and 0s, it’s culture.  And we let it happen.  I was thinking this when I should’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Revisiting the Zone

  

  Like many people in the early eighties, I heard about the terrifying accident that killed Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen during the filming... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Your Mystery

  

  Few things glaze the eyes of others like somebody else’s genealogy.  That’s not what this is, so unglaze those peepers!  As with most of my posts, there is... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Loving Vampires

  

  Vampires caught my attention early in life. I believe, apart from ghosts, that they were the first monsters I learned about. Apart from the fangs and perhaps... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Praise of Lecture

  

  As I look at our world and see divisions that certain politicians only make worse for their own gain, I wonder where we’ve jumped the rails.  I was just... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christmas Monsters

  

  Gremlins holds up pretty well with the years. My renewed interest was sparked by holiday horror—I had last seen the movie in a theater in 1984, when it came out. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ninth Day of

  

  I read Les Standiford’s The Man Who Invented Christmas back in 2017 and learned a lot from it then. Some of what I read on the bus, however, has faded a bit wit... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Year of Hope

  

  The older I get the more I appreciate New Year’s Day as a holiday.  Part of the reason is that, although I saw no hint of religion in it as a child, I have... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reading 2023

  

  As has become my tradition, I’ll end the year reflecting on the books I’ve read.  For a variety of reasons this is the first time in nine years that I haven’t... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Self Reflection

  

  The desire, for some people, is very strong. The need to record one’s life in words can be undertaken for any number of very human reasons. Perhaps we want our... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dryad?

  

  There are so many movies out there. The prudent horror fan knows not to be nickeled and dimed to death by renting/buying everything available, so you stick... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Tomorrow

  

  Two of the sweetest words I know are, in the context of a vacation, “not tomorrow.”  They’re especially sweet after you’ve had a couple days off and you start... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ushering In the New

  

  I’m not at all certain I’ll finish it, but at my daughter’s suggestion I watched the first episode of Netflix’s new series, The Fall of the House of Usher.... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Boxing

  

  Christmas is too large for just one day.  I know that, of course, not everyone can take a string of days off work.  I realize there are people who work Christma... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christmas Silence

  

  Christmas seems to have come too fast and not fast enough this year.  Like Halloween, it’s one of those long anticipation holidays.  The older I get, the more... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Morning Reflections

  

  Morning thoughts are different from evening thoughts.  As we spin recklessly through the blackness of space on this globe, we really have no idea how... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bears Repeating

  

  I read Robert C. Wilson’s Crooked Tree before I began this blog, I guess. I remembered it being better than it seemed this time around, but it works as a... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Movie Ancestors

  

  I’ve read quite a few Very Short Introductions, but this one struck me as particularly good. Donna Kornhaber knows how to write for non-specialists, and she... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Running out of Time

  

  How can you let a solstice slip past without noticing it?  Admittedly, it’s sometimes easy to do in summer, but for the winter solstice it’s more serious. ... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Which Love

  

  Perhaps some content creators use genre as a guide when writing, or when filming a movie. Some categories are pretty well defined—the western, the romance, or i... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY