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• Measuring Humanity

  

  The humanities have fallen in love with data.  Let me put a finer point on it: those who use the humanities as a profession have had to turn to “evidence... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• World’s End?

  

  I’ve been writing on religion and horror for quite a few years now. Sometimes you come across a horror movie, or novel, which addresses this directly. Paul... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Dagon

  

  There’s an aesthetic to bad movies. And when your production company is Crappy World Films you’ve got to wonder if it’s intentional. Chad Ferrin’s H. P. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ultimate Collectables

  

  “Collectible ebook” is a phrase you never hear.  That’s because such a thing doesn’t exist.  Even though I work in the publishing industry, I’m not really a... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Other Mississippi

  

  Salmon aren’t the only animals that head back to their ancestral homes late in life. There’s a draw to where we’re from. Many humans can’t physically return... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bad Movies

  

  It’s embarrassing.  No, really it is.  The other day I was posting on yet another bad movie I’d watched and I realized that I should add a new Category (althoug... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Theory

  

  Do you remember that crazy college professor you had?  Chances are there was more than one.  As a late friend used to say, that’s why we pay good money to go... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Coming to History

  

  Perhaps because I was a critical thinker at a young age, or maybe because I’ve always been insistent on fairness, I never took an interest in American history. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shepherding Books

  

  One of the truths of publishing books—unless you make it to one of the big five, and even then it can’t hurt—is that you have to promote your own books. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Idea of Scripture

  

  Although the academic field of biblical studies is slowly dying—this is something I wrote about a long while back on this blog—the Bible and its kin nevertheles... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Der Golem

  

  The golem is a monster of fascination. It has been the subject of movies from quite an early period. The earliest, now mostly lost, seems to have been Paul... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Pictures

  

  Old photographs are haunting. One thing I’ve long noticed about high school pictures from the early twentieth century is that those kids look much more grown... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kenyan Mourning

  

  We ignore religion at our peril.  I may be a voice crying in the wilderness here, but just because church numbers are declining it doesn’t mean religion still... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First Second

  

  The thing about self-published books is that titles sometimes confuse. I’d read Linda Zimmermann’s Hudson Valley UFOs without realizing it was a sequel. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spider Planet

  

  Misnomers aren’t uncommon when it comes to click-bait. I’ve fallen victim more than a few times. But such misdirection is probably as old as humanity, and is... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Denver Memories

  

  It may be a strange thing to say (or write, as the case may be) but I was kind of hoping to spend some extra time at the Denver Airport. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cat Nipped

  

  Holy Horror began with movies from 1960 on. You see, I had watched the 1982 remake of Cat People without ever watching the original from 1942. The remake has... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Finding Yourself

  

  Sometimes I look, fascinated.  At tracking info, that is.  I once ordered an item from Montreal, which is, I’m told, in the province of Quebec, Canada.  The... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Goodreads Zone

  

  It happened on Goodreads.  I suspect she had no idea how much that simple “like” meant to me.  Social media is too big to be everywhere, so I primarily engage... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Childhood History

  

  It looked just like I remembered it. Having recently read the account of a Hiroshima bomb survivor, I had a hankering to read it. John Hersey’s Hiroshima was... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY