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• Pumpkin Season

  

  A creature feature with a moral. Not a bad way to think through ethical dilemmas. You see, we don’t have a lot of extra money lying around, so when I need a... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scraps of Paper

  

  My wife is a saint.  She doesn’t throw away the little scraps of paper on which I write notes to myself.  They’re everywhere.  And this even though I carry... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Everything

  

  It’s been getting a lot of press, Everything Everywhere All at Once has. It’s been winning awards and it demonstrates that absurdism isn’t dead. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Urban Tiger

  

  Many things are universal. Ghosts, for example. What ghosts do and how they behave, however, can be culturally specific. The Jangsan Tiger is sort of a ghost an... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sunk Costs

  

  The other day, in a fit of post-holiday tiding up, my wife found something that she couldn’t reach to put away.  As I took the thing and dutifully began to... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Of Ewes and Groundhogs

  

  I need more time to prepare for Imbolc.  Or Groundhog Day, whichever you prefer.  Candlemas for you Catholic holdouts.  February 2 has the trappings of a major... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gothic Days

  

  The tradition of telling ghost stories during the months of long darkness has evolved over time. Since the time seems right, I watched a movie for which I read... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Romantics

  

  It takes one to know one—or so they used to say.  My current preoccupation has me learning about the Romantics.  This isn’t the same as “romance,” although... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unfinished Business

  

  Photo by Reid Naaykens on UnsplashAs a person who likes to finish what he starts, it’s pretty unusual for me to walk out of a movie. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Library Respect

  

  I didn’t know what to do.  All my life I’d been told “library books aren’t your books—treat them like they belong to somebody else.”  And here I was with a... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Being Sapiens

  

  Sometimes you need some distance to appreciate an object. A telescope may be required if it’s a distant subject, like a rare comet (if the skies aren’t... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keys

  

  Do you know the difference between “Voodoo” and “hoodoo”? Well, The Skeleton Key does. This is a movie I watched at the recommendation of a friend. Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Othering Offering

  

  I get to feeling a bit anxious when nobody else publishes me for a while.  It’s a strange kind of validation, I suppose.  No matter my motivation, I knew as soo... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Melvillian Thoughts

  

  I’ve posted about Moby-Dick a number of times on this blog. I make no bones about the fact that it’s my favorite novel. Still, I don’t know much about Herman... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Columbo

  

  I liked Columbo.  Peter Falk was an award-winning actor, and his working-class detective character was always entertaining to watch.  Unlike other TV cops, he... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Toil Et Cetera

  

  Few items are as necessary for modern day life than a functioning toilet.  If you live in town and don’t have an outhouse your other options are pretty limited. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Plan

  

  I suppose it’s debatable whether it can be considered a holiday treat to watch what is often called the worst movie ever made. Still, I did so over the Christma... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aging Children

  

  So I was reading this academic article from the late fifties.  In it the author was discussing how, in literary studies, imagination was considered childish. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• EsoterX

  

  This has been a brutal winter for us closet paranormal fans.  Linda Godfrey died in late November and now I’ve just learned of the passing of Aaron Dabbah, know... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Black Sabbath

  

  I used to be afraid of them.  The band Black Sabbath, I mean.  I heard the songs from Paranoid wafting from my older brother’s room (separated from mine by... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY