Steveawiggins

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• 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

• Is It That Time Already?

  

  Maybe it’s just me, but August seems to be the new October.  If any of you are experiencing the heat wave that’s (oddly enough) like global warming, my... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Some High School

  

  I have a soft spot for bad horror. And Sleepy Hollow High isn’t exactly good horror. It’s not horrible horror either. It follows the story of five teenage... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Roll of Churches

  

  I really don’t have time to follow any social media religiously, generally glancing at a page and perhaps scrolling down an inch or two when I have a moment. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scary Cosmology

  

  In many ways a harrowing book, A Cosmology of Monsters, by Shaun Hamill, is a real achievement. A monster story, it’s less a story about monsters than it is... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lovecraft’s Palace

  

  So, to see Witchfinder General I had to buy a set of Vincent Price movies. Complex copyright deals mean that not everything can be streamed—there’s a movie... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sabbatical Request

  

  I don’t know when I became one of them.  It seems that I was pretty busy in my early teaching days, and starting a family.  I didn’t feel, however, that every... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Burdens

  

  Listening is very important. Sometimes there’s nothing really to say but “I hear you.” This kept occurring to me during All That She Carried: The Journey of... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yelp Me

  

  Do you remember the Yellow Pages?  Or even phonebooks, for that matter?  (Or wall phones?)  They certainly weren’t perfect, but they tended to be updated... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Beastly Story

  

  You think you know a story. You know, you’ve heard it before, or seen it in a movie, so you think you know how it goes. I’m not the biggest Disney fan in the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The King

  

  Stephen King.  I haven’t read all of his books, but I’ve done quite a few.  I’ve watched movies based on some.  I read my first story by him in Junior High... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dark v Light

  

  The summer solstice was days away and the earliest sunrise had already passed.  The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset are not on the same day.  To those... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paperback Reader

  

  Sometimes I wonder why I do it. Horror is a strange category for books and films, but one thing that may be a draw is that they take me back. Life, it seems,... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY