Waiting is not my strong suit. But then neither is change, embracing change. I didn’t buy a CD player until the late 90s, because I was loathe to give up my cassette tapes. (I also kept my bad 80s hairstyle well into the 90s, too, but that’s neither here nor there.) I was slow to…
Month: December 2015
The Toys Santa Is Afraid Of
I’ve admitted before my weakness for things equal parts frightening and adorable. (One needs only to check my dating history for confirmation of this.) The murderous marionettes of PUPPETMASTER, the Critters, Gremlins, my collection of (bootleg?) Universal Monsters beanie babies. And I’m a big, burly dude. So if I love that kind of stuff, imagine…
How Pagan is Christmas?
Beware the confirmation bias! This linked-to article comes to us via an online source promoting the theory—and in this case “theory” is a simile for “hypothesis,” as opposed to the way it is used in scientific terms, as in the Theory of Evolution, for example, where a “theory” is a collection or grouping of established…
Jaguars and Wolves in the Dungeons!
The Aztecs, along with their cousins the Maya and the Inca, in spite of their trappings of high civilization, their excelling in architecture and the Arts, were a savage, bloodthirsty lot. I mean no denigration by referring to them as such, for they possessed many traits admirable and enviable, but any group known to practice…
When Predator and Prey Became Pet and Master
Thanks to modern science, DNA studies in particular, we know when it happened—about 33,000 years ago—and where—somewhere in southeast Asia. That’s where and when the relationship between man and dog began, although the first dog wasn’t a dog at all, but a wolf, a member of the genus Canus and species Lupus. A Gray Wolf,…
Bad Dogs
This week’s second report focusing on dogs and crime doesn’t have anything to do with human-on-pooch sexual activity, but unfortunately it’s even more tragic. In fact, if the former story sounds like something out of a raunchy Jack Black comedy or Set Rogen’s latest exercise in moron-ity, this next one comes straight out of a…
NEON JOE on the Web!
Just last week I reported on the new Adult Swim series NEON JOE: WEREWOLF HUNTER. I stated that I was undecided as to whether or not the show, which straddles the line between stupidity and genius, leaned more the one way or the other, but I confessed that it DID make me laugh. I also…
Depraved
Who is the most depraved serial killer of all time? That’s a tough question to answer. For starters, how do we define “serial killer?” Hitler killed 6 million people, but not DIRECTLY. How about gang members on the Mexican drug cartels, the ones who’ve notched up major body counts? These aren’t the sorts that come…
The Wild Man has been around for a LONG time.
Is it a group illusion? Or should that be, DE-lusion? Are people seeing things that aren’t really there? I’m referring to Bigfoot, the hairy “wild man” of the woods, by whichever of the numerous titles he, or it (or they) is known by. Sasquatch, Alma, Yowie, Yeti; or my favorite, the “Alabama Booger.” Whatever you…
Man Has Sex With Wife’s Dog. And His Wife Takes Him Back.
What is the werewolf conceptually, if not the Jungian representation of Man’s inner, unevolved, animal nature given free rein, allowed off its leash to . . . Ah, screw it. I can’t be all highbrow while reporting on something like this. It’s one of those things where you have to laugh, or else hang your…