Steveawiggins

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• Sleepy Once More

  

  I think this is the last of my recent nostalgia reads for a while. When trying to recapture the feeling of watching that first season of Sleepy Hollow without... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wicker Man Comes

  

  Not that I would know bodily, but it seems like a book being published is something like giving birth.  It takes several months (perhaps years, in the case of... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Library Books

  

  There’s a quiet joy to it.  Even if they have other people’s markings in them, books I obtain ex libris are among my personal treasures. They bring back memorie... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Human Capital, Are You?

  

  Human capital.  Is there any more demeaning phrase?  Those in positions of political authority like to use the term.  To grow the economy, to people the... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Handle with Care

  

  It reminds me of that old Traveling Wilburys’ song, “Handle with Care.”  Hate is a strange and dangerous motivator.  It’s something that makes me consider demon... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Content Creation

  

  Those who know me know my stand on books.  I’m pretty much defined by them.  I hope my blog makes that clear.  I’m always amazed, however, when someone happens... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Silicon Or Paper?

  

  Most of us follow blindly through this tech jungle.  We do it, I suppose, because there are rewards for having the world of information and entertainment at you... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Love’s Life

  

  One of the things about literary classics is they open themselves to reinterpretation. It’s often a lot of fun to trace these. Andi Marquette is obviously an... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Monster Bride

  

  I’ve been taken with Ed Wood lately. It’s quite possible, lost somewhere in my memory banks, that I saw one of his movies as a kid. If I did it would’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Off with Their

  

  “Heads, I win,” is common enough as a call for flipping a coin. That element of chance plays through Regina Janes’ Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature an... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• I P.M. Therefore I A.M.

  

  While I seldom have occasion to count beyond ten, I sometimes think the 24-hour clock would be a better option.  Since we have to face another major time... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just Justice

  

  I don’t mean to be insensitive, but there’s so many injustices to address.   We need better vocabulary for the victims of patriarchy.  And patriarchy tends to b... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Too Haunted

  

  It’s past the season, I know. But I have no control on when streaming services acquire new titles. So it was winter by the time I saw Haunt. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Recalling the Story

  

  Remembering how a story goes. That’s one of a book’s functions, particularly if a tale’s complex. Running a season behind, I was one of those enamored of... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Foresight

  

  God wasn’t thinking of search engine optimization (SEO) when he was writing the Bible.  First of all, he doesn’t seem to have considered that all the nice, shor... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fostering Euro-Horror

  

  In another example of Euro-Horror, Hatching is a remarkably effective monster movie. Filmed in Finnish, and set in Finland, it’s a remarkable parable about... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just Being

  

  You know, I sometimes resent being forced to be something I’m not.  In these days of tolerance and letting people be themselves, the bullies have taken over,... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Dark Academia

  

  It could be that I’m not smart or sophisticated enough. Or maybe I’ve just lived a sheltered existence, although I grew up with an alcoholic parent and among a... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weathering the Winter

  

  Although it’s been cold out, in many ways this feels like the year without a winter.  Around here we’ve had no real measurable snowfall and temperatures have... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Creepy

  

  There’s some symbolism here that I haven’t had time to sort out. (Some of us need time to just sit and think—time that work won’t allow. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY