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…

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…

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…