We must not offend the stupid, no, no. We must pander to the lowest common denominator. Is it fair to call the people who complained about an outdoor painting in Lakeland, Florida stupid? If willful, deliberate ignorance is tantamount to stupidity, then yes, it is. Artist Aaron Corbitt created the work, THE FALL OF DIONYSUS,…
Month: March 2019
When the Jersey Devil Went Viral
It was also a kangaroo with fake bat wings. P.T. Barnum would have been proud. When a rash of Jersey Devil sightings occurred in 1909, an enterprising showman named Norman Jeffries announced that he’d captured the infamous beast and put it on display at his dime museum on the corner of Ninth and Arch Streets…
The Wolfman in US
I wasn’t sure at first whether the mask worn by the little boy in Jordan Peele’s US was meant to represent the Wolfman or Chewbacca. A little careful scrutiny confirmed for me that it was indeed a representation of the classic Universal Monster. We know that Jordan Peele is a Horror fan. As he has…
North Carolina Woman Killed By Mystery Canine
Initial reports in this case made it sound more exotic than it probably is. A 77-year-old woman named Brenda Hamilton was killed in her backyard in Pantego, North Carolina, in Beaufort County by an animal or animals. At first they only issued a statement saying that the DNA taken from the scene didn’t match that…
THERIOPHOBIA: FEAR THE BEAST Part 42
Marley Kidde felt like a new woman. She’d hunted through the trailer until she’d found Leland’s keys; easy enough, since he’d left them on his bedroom dresser. After getting the chain off, she’d treated herself to a hot shower. She’d even found an extra toothbrush still zipped up in a small travel case. She’d put…
HIGH MOON, More ZOOMBIES, and JOHN WICK As A Dog
How is it that this one hasn’t been done already? HIGH MOON. It’s so obvious. A werewolf Western. With werewolf bikers. This looks gloriously hokey in all the right ways. Could this potentially be another WOLFCOP? Not to be confused with ANOTHER WOLFCOP, which was the actual title of the sequel to WOLFCOP. Watch the…
Science and the Werewolf
If you know any policemen (or women) or hospital workers, chances are they’ll tell you that things get crazy on nights of the full moon. Yet statistics don’t bear this out. Is it strictly a psychological thing? A sort of anti-placebo? There is no scientific reason why the full moon would affect human beings or…
Cultural Appropriation and the Witchcraft Market
To quote Charlie Brown, good grief! There are some really good reasons not to visit the infamous Sonora Witchcraft Market of Mexico City. For one thing, it’s in Mexico City. That was a joke, designed to have the overly PC wankers already x-ing out before we proceed. In reality I’m sure there are many parts…
ABC Attack—Not
This. This right here is why we can’t have nice things. When a credible sighting of an ABC (an Alien Big Cat, or a big cat in some place where a big cat ought not to be) occurs, the mainstream is always skeptical. Scientists dismiss it out of hand. And it’s because of assclowns like…
New STRANGER THINGS Trailer
A picture is worth a thousand words, and the same is true of trailers. Watch the latest for the forthcoming season of STRANGER THINGS, then, and you will know as much as I do, or as much as anyone does who isn’t directly involved in the production of the series. (Or isn’t clairvoyant.) That doesn’t…