Month: January 2022

What could this cute video of a guy playing Bluegrass music for a fox possibly have to do with our subject matter here at this site? A lot more than you might think. “I’d been touring and playing hundreds of shows a year for nearly 20 years,” said the musician in question, “so it was…

The headline of this linked article says that it’s a dog. I disagree. Take a look at the accompanying photo. Looks like a wolf, doesn’t it? At the very least it’s a dog that looks a lot like a wolf. Given the city, nee Empire, of Rome’s history with the wolf—the legendary founders of Rome…

Another gunshot, another. He is in the weeds now. He is near the drainage ditch. Down in the ditch he will be safe from the bullets. He cannot run now. He hobbles. He sees the tall slide on the playground. The pain makes it hard to think. Where is he going? The den. How far?…

He moves. He runs. He had intended to find Maribelle Tate and Judith Mocker after escaping from the lab. But he had not figured out how to do it. *I should have waited. I should not have escaped until I knew what I would do next.* The other inside him bristles. It had been the…

So many questions. So many things that he did not understand. If he does not answer the questions in his head he will go mad. But he cannot answer them. He cannot even ask them. Moe had been afraid, and he had left his den when she started throwing things at him. Where could he…

He waits, on his belly, in the wet grass. It is raining, a heavy rain. Not a clean rain, as in Africa, one to settle the dust and cool the air. Here the rain smells dirty. It tastes bitter and stings his eyes. The grass is not tall; it is not thick. It will not…

It wouldn’t be unheard of. BLACK PANTHER got a nomination. THE DARK KNIGHT got one, too. It might very well kill Martin Scorsese if it happens, but, well, we’ll miss you, Marty. The film deserves such honor and recognition. When a movie hits with the impact on the cultural zeitgeist and ortgeist that the latest…

We all learned it in elementary school, didn’t we? That mythology was just a way for primitive people to explain away natural phenomena they didn’t understand. This is often true, yes, but then as we got older, some of us, and continued to study the matter, with an able assist from Joseph Campbell and other…

Remember that scene in THE AVENGERS when they ask Loki if he’s afraid of thunder, and he replies something along the lines of “I’m not a fan of what comes with it”. (And then Thor shows up to kick Loki’s ass.) Rereading the accounts of the Black Shuck attacks of 1577, something new occurred to…

Hey, look, y’all. I found another one! Another of those hand-wringing articles bemoaning the state of the cinema these days. “When a movie lacks a superhero or, at the very least, a well-known action franchise, it has very little chance of succeeding in the current box office climate.” That’s literally the first sentence. Then, concerning…