Lawd have mercy. Last week, I posted an article on this chick I know who is all kinds of batshit, who believes she is under attack from demons but who has some “essential oil” to ward the demons off and prevent them possessing her. I was just being flippant. I posted it because I thought…
The Pulps Are Dead. Long Live The Pulps!
It must be tough to be a “Social Justice Warrior.” Note my use of quotation marks here. This is to designate the difference between any person concerned about social concerns—and frankly, social justice should be a primary concern of any compassionate, intelligent person in this day and age—and those cliché-ridden, self-important types who spend so…
THERIOPHOBIA: FEAR THE BEAST Chapter One
As promised last week, peeps, here is the opening salvo of my original werewolf novel. Give it a paragraph or two. If you aren’t impressed, skip it. But I think you’re gonna dig it. All material is copyright 2018 by me. Feel free to share it ad nauseam, just please credit me as the author.…
“Werewolf” Identified
That sure didn’t take long. Weren’t they predicting it would take months? Somebody put a rush on this one. What was it, week before last that I was reporting on the mysterious animal shot and killed by a rancher in Montana, an animal that didn’t look like a regular wolf? It was spurring all sorts…
Kurtzman’s Stuff
I don’t even know if the auction is still going on. I think it is. But I’m covering it anyway because I want to share some of the cool goodies with you, the stuff that is, or was, available for online purchase at this site here. Like the picture above, for example. How sweet is…
Ralph, the Rampaging Mutant Wolf
I was disappointed with the movie RAMPAGE when I finally got around to watching it. I loved the monsters, though. In fact it was because I loved the monsters, because I am always going to love the monsters, that I judged RAMPAGE so harshly. A movie can be a cheesefest. I’m fine with that. Sometimes…
The Nightmare Beast of ANNIHILATION
Okay, that monster deserves its own damn movie! Some Horror fans loved ANNIHILATION and some found it a bit too much of an acquired taste, but nobody with any sensibility can argue against the effectiveness of the film’s true star, the monster bear. For those who haven’t seen ANNIHILATION, there’s this thing—actually more of a…
Preparing the way for THERIOPHOBIA
I had this crazy dream once. It came true. Alternately, I was a dismal failure. The dream was to make my living as a writer. I am doing that, slowly but surely. I’m not bursting onto the scene in a flash and bang, the way I had hoped, but little by little the fire is…
DoppelCoop and the Showgirls
Attention, all TWIN PEAKS fans and non-fans alike. Something occurred to me the other day that I feel I need to share with you. Fans already know that Agent Dale Cooper ventured into the Black Lodge, a parallel dimension filled with both benevolent (or at least morally ambiguous) and sinister entities back in 1991. He…
Demon-Chasin’ Essential Oil
Have you ever heard of an “essential oil”? I had, but I didn’t know much about it, about them. I knew they were supposed to smell good. I looked it up, and the “official” definition goes something like this: “An essential oil is an all-natural, volatile aromatic compound derived from a plant.” What does “volatile”…