Month: October 2020

A priest got arrested because he was having a ménage à trois on the altar of the church where he served as the rector. I say “served” past-tense because they not surprisingly fired his ass and stripped him of his collar. (I wonder if he was wearing the collar while engaging in the act. He…

This year I have become addicted to the Halloween-themed shows on the Food Network, shows like HALLOWEEN WARS and HALLOWEEN BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP. If you take the Horror spin away, I wouldn’t and couldn’t possibly care any less about a cooking show of any kind, but there’s something about the haunted holiday aesthetic that makes it…

This past weekend, I once again got to experience THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in the theater. It’s always magical, and, as there were only two other people in the auditorium and they were seated way across the room, I honestly don’t see how it could have been much safer for me, in terms of possible…

Is it a carryover of our lineage, harkening back to Adam our progenitor, that we mortal men carry within ourselves such an instinctive, primal fear of and loathing for the reptile? No other predator, no matter how large and fierce, chills us so in the marrow as does the serpent and its kindred. I do…

I don’t wear pajamas. Never have. A few times as a kid, when my mom would insist I put some on, but even then I’d wake up in the middle of the night uncomfortable and take them off. Pajamas were for back in the days when bedrooms got cold at night, when fires in fireplaces…

Expect to be hearing a lot about this one, right up until the time that I do or don’t get to see it, depending on whether or not the theaters in my part of the world choose to show it or not. It’s a new movie, it’s opening in theaters right now (hopefully ones around…

I’m still not certain how the Science of it works. My understanding—and granted I am no geneticist—is that hybrids are sterile. Animals born of the breeding of two different species cannot reproduce. But it appears our Cro-Magnon ancestors could and did interbreed with Neanderthals, because the Neanderthals were our ancestors too, a little bit. Most…

Regal Cinemas, the second largest theater chain in America, the American branch of the company Cineworld, has decided to close all its theaters worldwide until 2021. This doesn’t affect me so much, since they’d never opened up any of the theaters they own in my part of the world to begin with, but it’s bad…

I could not help, as much as Roman society and its debaucheries disgusted me, being impressed with the Romans’ ingenuity, even when that ingenuity they applied towards killing. A civilization is judged by the barbarity of its entertainments. History then must pronounce a severe condemnation on the Roman race. Yet their architecture, their arts were…

First, the official synopsis, aka the spiel: “Paul lives an isolated life with his father in upstate New York. He finds making friends impossible due to a rare condition he has known as congenital hypertrichosis–an affliction that causes an abnormal amount of hair growth all over his face and body. On his 13th birthday, Paul…