Month: November 2017

Everybody knows that US President Teddy Roosevelt is the most credible witness ever to sight Bigfoot. Except that he didn’t. See Bigfoot, that is. He DID report on a sighting, one that he found credible. Roosevelt wrote a book called THE WILDERNESS HUNTER, published in 1892, in which he recounted the story of a man…

Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, the creators spearheading Universal’s new DARK UNIVERSE franchise, have jumped ship. You can’t blame them. Anybody at this point can see that it’s sinking. It’s almost underwater completely. Only a couple of the topmasts are still poking out of the water, and they’ll be gone soon. Universal screwed the pooch.…

Fenris. That’s why I’m reviewing this movie here and not at our sister site, topcomics.com. (I do comment over there on the racist controversy involving the casting of a black woman as the Valkyrie, however, and how a few vocal racists were predicting the movie would bomb. Hint: It didn’t. And that is a massive…

The term is “simulacra.” Or “simulacrum,” singular. Webster’s dictionary defines the term thusly: “An insubstantial form or semblance of something.” It has the same root as the word “simulate.” In layman’s terms, it’s something that looks like something else. Typically, something naturally occurring that looks like something else, which may or may not be naturally…

The above-titled species of ape does not exist. Conceptually, yes; it exists as an idea. But it isn’t a real, living, or even extinct, animal. It never existed as such. The infamous cryptid photograph depicting one, albeit a dead one–if you are a follower of cryptozoology, then you will be familiar with the case and…

No, I STILL haven’t seen the second season, dammit, so I’m reduced to reporting on things with a secondary or even a tangential connection to the series. Like whether or not star Millie Bobby Brown looks too grown up in publicity photos, and whether or not it makes one a pedophile to comment on this…

This book suffers from the same weakness as so many independent publications, in that it stands in desperate need of an editor. If you find comma splices and run-on sentences distracting to the extent I do, you’ll have a hard time getting through this one, which is a shame, as the subject matter is fascinating.…

Is there such a thing as “murderer” DNA? If both my biological parents were killers, as is the case with the lady profiled in this article, you can bet I’d be worried about it, the same as she is. Then again, if I’m worried about possibly being a sociopath, doesn’t that indicate clearly that I’m…

Here it is. The smoking gun. Proof that those overly-religious uptights who’ve been warning us for years about the evils of Halloween were right all along. In true THE WICKER MAN style, there are rural villages in England where the traditional Halloween celebrations are capped off by ritualized murder. Yep. For sure. It’s true. It…

No, I haven’t been able to catch STRANGER THINGS yet, so keep your spoilers to yourselves. I’ve already heard chatter on social media about some sort of swerve that occurs about halfway through the new season. This is the problem with series that become available all at once. There’s always going to be somebody who…