Steveawiggins

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• Truthful Fiction

  

  Octavia E. Butler is a name I’ve known for some time. Various people, most of whom I don’t know, had recommended her books, particularly Parable of the Talents. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tall and Slender

  

  At first I thought she was mistaken. A friend mentioned, in a litany of horror films, The Tall Man. I thought she meant The Slender Man. Then I saw an online... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Agency

  

  I’ve worked in publishing since 2006.  That seems like a goodly time, but the industry is a complex one.  I started trying to publish again around 2010—losing m... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cinematic Demons

  

  It was because I read The Exorcist Effect. I realize that there are lots of movies that I could’ve watched for Nightmares with the Bible, but with limited... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bugging Out

  

  There’s a scene in Disney’s Hercules where Thebes has just been through a bunch of unnatural disasters sent by Hades to lure Hercules into the open. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Salem Away

  

  I can’t help but think the term “witch hunt” has been cheapened in recent years as a prominent, wealthy white man has been claiming to be the victim of one. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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