Steveawiggins

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• Making More Monsters

  

  It’s endlessly frustrating, being a big picture thinker. This runs in families, so there may be something genetic about it. Those who say, “Let’s step back a... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pseudo-documentary

  

  Documentaries have an honored place in visual education. Of course, there are some who want to spice them up a bit with dramatic re-enactments. These are... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Telling Vision

  

  My wife and I don’t watch much television.  In fact, we had very poor television reception from about 1988 (when we married), until we moved into this house in... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For the Camera

  

  Smile 2 is getting some good critical notice and I hadn’t seen Smile (1) yet. Psychological horror often bothers me, but I figured I’d grin and bear it. I’m gla... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First Visit

  

  Dark academia prompted me to do it. I have never read an Evelyn Waugh novel, but the title Brideshead Revisited is fairly ubiquitous. I’d heard it many times bu... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belting Beltane

  

  Things have been so busy that I forgot that today is Beltane.  That’s all the more ironic because yesterday I’d been on a panel to address the British... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Hope Nightmare

  

  One of my favorite places along the Delaware River is the town of New Hope.  Across the river is the very nice town of Lambertville, New Jersey, but New Hope ha... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Capture and Release

  

  Waste not, want not. I place some stock in old sayings. With the way things are going, prices are sure to rise and so saving a penny or two may be wise. So I... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Playing Sleepy Hollow

  

  In my teenage years I wrote a short play or two. I haven’t done it since. I’ve read plenty over the years but my fiction takes the form of short stories and... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Drac Retold

  

  House of Darkness is one of those horror movies that doesn’t seem like horror until a good way in. I knew nothing about it, other than it had to do with... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Schrödinger’s

  

  It’s quite a dilemma.  It’s Schrödinger’s cat without the box.  Well, it’s a dead cat in my yard.  It’s not my cat and I only know about it because the next-doo... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• From the Grave

  

  “Macabre” is a word of uncertain etymological origin. One of the most convincing arguments that I’ve read is that it derives from Hebrew qbr, a root associated... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shadow off Campus

  

  I’ve been to quite a few academic conferences in my life. Some have been held in neighborhoods declared “unsafe.” I even had a job interview in a hotel room... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Saint Francis

  

  With the death of the most saint-like Pope in living memory, it feels a little like fate that I’d seen Conclave just three days before. Francis was the only Pop... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thinking of Home

  

  The earth, and even life on it, will, I’m confident, outlive our petty desires for money and being the king of the hill.  Scientists are getting tantalizingly... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Than Zombies

  

  I was near fifty, if I hadn’t already passed that threshold, before I saw Night of the Living Dead. Whispered about in my high school as one of the scariest... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Easter Gathering

  

  On Easter I’m thinking of Conclave. My wife had been wanting to see it and we watched it on Good Friday—a work day, of course, in this “Christian” nation. In an... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unusual Autopsy

  

  I avoided The Autopsy of Jane Doe for some time because, well, autopsy movies just aren’t my thing. Besides, I thought it might be a “true crime” sort of movie... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Space Rocks

  

  The thing from another world.  No, not the movie, but an artifact.  My recent post about the asteroid sent me looking for something. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horror Adjacent

  

  We have the basic facts, but still, it takes a good bit of imagination. We simply don’t know what the life of Mary Shelley was like, as experienced by the... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY