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• Dangerous Driving

  

  It reminded me of the time my manager fell down into the basement.  It also makes me think I must be neurodivergent.  Yesterday we were helping my brother in Ne... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fine Young

  

  Horror is getting harder and harder to define. Maybe it’s because movies are venturing further and further into mixed genres. The best genre I’ve seen... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What You Believe

  

  This is an important and frustrating book. I just can’t figure out if the black-and-white thinking is disingenuous or if it was really believed. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Contours of Dark Academia

  

  As I attempt to trace the contours of dark academia, I’m learning that much of my reading has been classified that way by others. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Littlefoot

  

  A film is an object. Just like a book, a film exists and waits for someone to discover and promote it. The vast majority of both don’t make the cut and exist... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• and Seek

  

  I’m afraid there may be spoilers—but not for the ending—below. Discussing this story will be difficult without giving some things away. Kiersten White’s Hide ha... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Non-Demon

  

  The psychological horror film The Neon Demon isn’t about a literal demon. It’s a movie about rivalry between runway models in Los Angeles, but there isn’t a... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remaining in Shadow

  

  Some people want to be found.  Others don’t.  Those of us who are curious shade into those who are frustrated when we can’t find someone. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Institutionalized

  

  When movies set out to present a different period, a bit of historical research can go a long way. Someone like Robert Eggers offers such verisimilitude that yo... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Deep Backlist

  

  It’s kind of a personal archaeology.  Exploring the terrain of one’s own mind, that is.  Back in January, I mentioned my “deep backlist,” which is actually my... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• To Dracula, a Daughter

  

  Nosferatu, by F. W. Murnau, was deemed in copyright violation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and ordered destroyed. Rights to the novel were properly purchased by... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Imagine Monsters

  

  Adulthood is where you begin to recognize the folly of growing up.  Like most people, when I “matured” I was ashamed of things I made as a child and,... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stop for a Bite

  

  Universal does monsters right. I’m no movie maven but I don’t know why the whole Dark Universe thing didn’t work out. These movies are good! Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Indigenous Gods

  

  Engulfed by capitalism, it is too easy to ignore the indigenous population of this country. I grew up thinking, in some way, that American Indians were extinct... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead Darlings

  

  The thing about being a writer is that there’s no one size fits all. I watched Kill Your Darlings because it is an example of dark academia, or so it’s sometime... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First Tower

  

  In these days when daring to think feels dangerous, R. F. Kuang’s Babel: An Arcane History feels dangerous to read. Good literature is like that, even if it’s... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Undead Again

  

  I had intended to see it in the theater, but holidays are family time. And not everyone is a fan of horror. Last night I finally did get to see Robert Eggers’... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Asteroid

  

  So, that asteroid.  Good thing Trump won’t be in office in 2032.  Well, it’s only a three percent chance it’ll hit us, but chances are things can’t get much... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sounds Funny

  

  It may be the strangest vampire film ever. Lifeforce not only postulates the origins of vampires as beings from space who come to suck humans dry of their souls... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Praise of Paper

  

  I write quite a lot.  I’ve done so for decades.  As I’ve tried to carve out a writer’s life for myself I noticed a few things.  I’ll start a story or novel and... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY