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• Life in the Woods

  

  Early influences are often the strongest.  “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”  Thumper was the dispenser of this particular wisdom,... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cone of Silence

  

  I still get asked occasionally.  Actually, I was never asked when I was employed as a professor.  Peer review is essential to the academic process. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jason’s Javelin

  

  This past weekend was my third this year spent recovering from vaccinations. The shingles jabs were worse, but this time it was a double-duty flu shot and... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Lurks

  

  One question that I get asked by those who don’t understand is “Why horror?” The asker is generally someone that knows I’ve been “religious” all my life, or... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holy Nightmares

  

  The thing about ratings, as John Green astutely notes in The Anthropocene Reviewed, is that they are in many ways arbitrary. From the very few reviews of my... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Grave Robbers

  

  My personal reconstruction of the Dark Shadows universe was made by connecting the books by Marilyn Ross that I could find with the episodes of the television... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Over

  

  It’s not over, you know.  Halloween, I mean.  We may have made it through the actual night of trick-or-treating with all of its build-up, but like many... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• This Halloween

  

  This year I’ve been making a conscious effort to appreciate autumn.  It’s admittedly difficult when you’re forced to sit in an office, even a home office, for... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seasonal Viewing

  

  Any movie that begins with an excommunication ought to be good. Especially with its list of stars you’d think To the Devil a Daughter might’ve turned out better. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hallowed Tradition

  

  The more I learn about the movie industry the more complex I realize it is. Take Trick ‘r Treat, for example. It was released to some film festivals—and backed... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Data Protection

  

  I learned to type on an actual typewriter.  For many—likely the majority—of those my age or older, that was the case.  Schools in the seventies, perhaps... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Panel

  

  More than one person pointed it out to me, so I guess I must be getting a (small) reputation.  During one of my campus editorial visits I stopped into the cente... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Small Big World

  

  Serendipity may have been over-used in the eighties, but the idea of finding something by chance that turns out to be really good is real enough. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Monster Gods

  

  “I would go to Catholic Church and the saints made no sense.  But Frankenstein made sense, The Wolfman made sense, The Creature from the Black Lagoon made sense... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Locally Speaking

  

  One of the weird things about moving is that you don’t know many people in your new location.  Ah, but who am I kidding?  As an introvert I knew few people in m... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Chilly Ghosts

  

  The names of many Antarctic explorers are more familiar to me than Arctic ones, so John Franklin was a name unknown to me. A nineteenth-century British explorer... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Words

  

  I read something scary recently.  And no, it was not a horror story.  I work in publishing and we have to keep abreast of developments, so I’ve had a glimpse... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• When Autumn Starts

  

  Some books catch my attention and I’m not sure why. Knowing myself, the title When Autumn Leaves, invoking my favorite time of year with its intriguing syntax,... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shatner’s Space

  

  We constantly underestimate the power of fiction.  It’s difficult to break into getting fiction published.  It wasn’t always that way. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Free to Listen

  

  It was a delightful conversation, as always.  Robin and Debra from The Incarcerated Christian podcast always amaze me with both their program and their... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY