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• Boggy Down

  

  Okay, so after watching The Creature of Black Lake I realized that I’d never seen The Legend of Boggy Creek. I did watch The Mysterious Monsters, a documentary... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Day of Earth

  

  One of the questions thoughtful and mission-based publishers ask is why books on environmentalism don’t sell.  Since it’s Earth Day (by the way, Happy Earth... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Black Lagoon, Er, Lake

  

  There’s value in watching bad movies. For one thing, it’s a learning opportunity. (For another, they’re more likely to be found for free on streaming services. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Funny About Irving

  

  The successful writer, John Green, has been on a tuberculosis kick lately. You see, writers swing that way. As the writer of books few people read, I’ve had my... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pondering Origins

  

  I’m not a numbers guy.  I never had any interest in statistics, and I tremble when I see my accountant’s number pop up on my phone at tax time.  But... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Human Humanities

  

  The New Yorker, if it didn’t take so much time to read, would be on my magazine list. I’m primarily a book man, and there’s so little time these days that... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Female Future

  

  One thing we repeatedly heard during the early days of the pandemic is that people couldn’t wait for things to get back to business as usual (BAU, in corporate... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Kind of Night?

  

  “It was a dark and stormy night.”  If you’re like me, this evokes images of Snoopy sitting atop his doghouse, clacking away at his typewriter, trying to write... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Finally, Therapy

  

  Like religion and horror, humor and horror can also get along well. As an aesthetic, it’s not for everyone, but Grady Hendrix does it well. It took some... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eternal Return

  

  Amazon gets a lot of bad press.  For me, anyone that sends me books gets a warm fuzzy association.  Besides, returns are a snap.  Amazon has sent me the wrong... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New York History

  

  Regular readers know I’ve been on a Washington Irving kick. My wife kindly agreed to read his History of New York to me as I was doing the dishes (we’ve read... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Disputing Tradition

  

  I respect tradition.  Normally.  Once in a while tradition should be disputed.  The other day I was reminded of the seventeenth-century aphorism, “The early bir... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dinosaur Planet

  

  Time, as the crew of the Odyssey finds out, can cast things in a different light. Admittedly I watched Planet of the Dinosaurs because it was free on Amazon... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Literary Detective

  

  A writer’s life can take many forms. Alexandre Dumas, for example, (the father, just to be clear) had tremendous success with his novels The Three Musketeers an... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Miracles

  

  “Expect a miracle,” Oral Roberts used to say, “and a miracle is yours today.”  The famed Evangelical probably didn’t have Catholic-variety miracles in mind,... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holiday Hopping

  

  Weekends in spring are like touching base.  They’re the only places you can’t be tagged out and you run from one to the next, hoping not to get caught. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Friends and Dreams

  

  The mind is a labyrinth.  Ever since the time change (especially), I’ve been waking with the weirdest dreams.  One involved someone I haven’t really thought... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Curses

  

  Once again I’m reminded that Holy Horror was never intended to be comprehensive. I recently watched The Cursed (the 2021 one, directed by Sean Ellis). Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Importance of Sharing

  

  Growing up with siblings, I remember it well—my mother instilling the message of sharing.  If something good came my way, I could count on hearing “Share that... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rock the Absurd

  

  Okay, so it was bound to happen eventually.  You see, the internet makes us all interchangeable in a way.  I occasionally lament being confused by various... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY