Steveawiggins

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• Things That Appear

  

  As a movie, Apparition fails on many levels. One way that it passes is being free on Amazon Prime, which is how I found it. The trick with Prime, of course, is... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Social Horror

  

  Some books get you thinking in ways you don’t expect. That’s one of the pleasures of reading. Lindsey Decker’s Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Truth, for Free

  

  The Book of Common Prayer, reaching back to my Anglican days, is and always has been in the public domain. Although the poetic language and culturally relevant... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hollow

  

  Now that we’re officially in September, it’s kosher to talk of Halloween horror (I’ve seen Christmas decorations in the stores already). Well, around here we... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Time Is Nigh

  

  Although I have many authors I like to read, I haven’t fully explored the oeuvre of many. I’m an eclectic reader and I’m also often limited by bookstores as to... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not a Scholar

  

  It’s insensitive.  And behind the times.  Google Scholar, I mean.  They send me emails telling me that people can’t read my research because I don’t have a... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Headlines

  

  I see many headlines in a day.  One from Book Riot caught my attention with its linked story on BoingBoing. This particular story is poignant and points to the... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Naming Conventions

  

  Okay, I confess.  Every now and then I do it, but then, a lot of people do.  Perhaps because I’m trying to figure out who I really am, or perhaps because I’m... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pitfalls

  

  While watching Roger Corman’s The Pit and the Pendulum, it occurred to me that these movies have improved with age. The series of American International... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dedication

  

  Formulas are convenient, even if they don’t always work.  I’m thinking specifically of areas I know, such as writing.  And I compare this against the advice of... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Persistence of Streaming

  

  I’ve had to start keeping a list.  If I don’t I’ll forget which movies I’ve streamed.  I suspect I’m not alone in this.  Electronic information is vapid and... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Like Sheep

  

  Since horror grew up in the late 1960s, religion has become a favorite theme in the genre. Although religion had been in horror from the beginning, Rosemary’s... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• From Russia

  

  A New York Times headline recently caught my eye. “Russia opened a murder investigation into a car blast near Moscow.” I wondered how a country that’s an... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Invasion

  

  So I’m sitting here thinking it would be great if Liz Cheney were to run for president.  Then I think, have things really got so bad that Dick Cheney’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Walking Home Alone

  

  It is an American-Iranian, female-directed vampire movie. Shot in black-and-white and entirely in subtitled Persian, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a very... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wicker Back

  

  The dilemma of my eclectic interests sometimes runs up against the natural slowness of publishing.  My book on The Wicker Man has been given the green light by... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Burton of Thought

  

  I haven’t seen all of his films. Some of them I have seen I didn’t really like. When Tim Burton does strike a chord, however, he does so hard. Burton on Burton... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gorilla Thinking

  

  We don’t understand consciousness, but we want to keep it all to ourselves.  That’s the human way.  Or at least the biblically defined human way. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• October Early

  

  Still feeling that August is the new October, although that particular day happened to reach over ninety degrees, I watched Halloween. Not the John Carpenter... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aging Writers

  

  The fact that V. C. Andrews didn’t have any success as a novelist until her late fifties (a benchmark that has already slipped for me), gives me hope. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY