Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4562 )

• Love for the Sky

  

  People long for the sky.  We look at birds with envy and we have historically treated the weather, or the sky itself as divine.  To get oneself into the air is... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Halloween Mothers

  

  There’s an irony in seeing Samhain returning back to Ireland as Halloween. One movie that ties its Celtic roots in particularly well with the denizens of the... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Green Pagan

  

  The folk tradition doesn’t encompass folk horror only. I’ve been working on The Wicker Man, one of the initial folk horror classics, long enough that I sometime... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bad Dog!

  

  A few years back, it was, when I saw my first video of a robo-dog.  I don’t mean the cute ones that you might fool yourself into thinking, on an off day, might... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Flavor of Childhood

  

  Giant, telepathic crabs whose molecular structure make them impervious to bullets, explosives, and fire, and that know how to use dynamite and who plan to take... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Former Education

  

  Like most people I don’t have time to sit around thinking much about college.  Once in a while you’re forced into it, however.  This time it was by an NPR... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stinging Days

  

  It doesn’t take much to encourage wasps. Even after a few unseasonably cold weeks in autumn, one warm day will bring them back, poking along the siding looking... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reading Algorithm

  

  I appreciate help.  I really do.  It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in this world and others offering to help out are welcome.  But you do have to wonder about... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kings and Gods

  

  Kong has never been my favorite monster.  Perhaps because it is more of a sad story than a scary one, and in movies of gigantic animals, there always seem to... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Donations

  

  They’re after my blood.  In fact, they repeatedly call on my work phone asking for it.  But when I go in they won’t take it.  There are blood shortages, I know.... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forbidden Things

  

  I owe Douglas Cowan a debt of gratitude. Spending evenings at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting curled up with... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Past Knowing

  

  It’s like watching a fall in a movie in slow motion.  You know you can’t really stop it, as much as you’d like to.  We see the collective world pieces moving... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eclecticism

  

  Eclectic.  An eclectic approach is experiential.  I don’t mean to be obscure here, but I was once an academic.  Let me try to spell this out a little more... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• After It’s News

  

  We live our lives by the news cycle.  It tells us what to think about and worry about, often beyond our local, daily concerns.  And sometimes we forget about... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Subconscious Humor

  

  It’s good to know your subconscious has a sense of humor.  What with all that’s going on in the world these days, God knows we could use a laugh or two.  At... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sleepy Hollow West

  

  You’ve got to admire those who are determined to be writers on their own terms. As someone who’s tried and tried again to break into even indie presses, I know... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Excuses

  

  Perhaps it was my Shingrix-addled brain—but we all know that’s an excuse—I decided to watch Creature (1985) and Attack of the Giant Leeches (timeless) over the... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lost Day

  

  There’s a continuity of life and we’re used to it with only small, regular interruptions, such as a night’s sleep.  Each day builds on the previous one with... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Roman Mythology

  

  A recent game of Redactle led to a family discussion of Roman mythology.  I had to flex some muscles unused since my last full semester at Rutgers, but I was... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Opinion Piece

  

  There comes a time, I hope, when the opinion of someone with over four-and-a-half decades of intensive reading experience, might matter. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY