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• Popping Clowns

  

  You need a scorecard to keep track of all the killer clowns. While not the greatest horror movie, Clown in a Cornfield isn’t bad. As with most of my movie posts... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Little Gems

  

  On a recent diversion to a curio shop we like, I found that one of the “Dark Shadows” paperbacks they had was one I hadn’t read. Dark Shadows had, of course,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cool Book Festival

  

  So yesterday I was at the Lehigh Valley Book Festival. (It occurs to me know that I should perhaps post such notices in advance, but I know few people in the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Red Thread

  

  Theseus would never have survived the labyrinth without the help of Ariadne.  After escaping the minotaur, the two eloped and, according to some versions of... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Together Again

  

  Body horror can be gruesome, but also thought-provoking. Together shares a similar them to The Substance, namely, bodies merging. They differ in the details, an... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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