Warning: This Post Will Make You Think About Death
I'll be doing this one David Shields style, with selected quotes. (Shields, by the way, is the author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead) Franz…
Breaking News, Publicity Fans: The Summer of Long Knives Book Blog Tour
One of those book blog tour things does appear to be happening for Summer of Long Knives. It starts September 15th, runs through October 15th, and'll involve my stopping by at various…
The 42 Worst Movies Made Since I Was Born
From Over at the MMIP Riffs site, a full list. Here's a sample: Omen III: The Final Conflict: The first Omen movie made almost zero sense, but it had a…
Five Stupid Things About Faith Healers
I have strong personal reasons for disliking faith healers. By now, I'd have probably lost my grandmother anyway, but when she died in 1988, she still had at least 5-10…
Another Teaser Trailer For the Amityville 2 Project
I swore to avenge myself upon Dino De Laurentiis someday. This is how I'm going about it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2C5BRky00&w=560&h=315]
42 after ’71 (Final Part)
Here's the last installment of my forty-two favorite movies since 1971. (I was born in 1971 and I'm 42 years old, see...) Here are parts one, two, and three. 32. Blazing…
A Little Tease For My Side Project
Casey Raiha and I of MMIP Riffs have been busy riffing Amityville 2 (because, honestly, what other use does that film have besides target practice for two jokesters.) I'll be talking…
Thinking Fiction
Join my new little discussion group over at Goodreads to dig into the connections between philosophy and fiction. Thinking Fiction 63 members Writers and readers come together to discuss a…
How Long Do You Want Me To Be Scared?
Accorting to Slate, Michael Robbins's Slate book review of Atheists: The Origin of the Species is one of Slate's more circulated articles, probably because few subjects (except porn) drive traffic as much as atheist trolling.…
What Should Germany Do With Mein Kampf?
Yesterday, the U.S. Holocaust museum held a Twitter chat about the impending emergence of Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf from copyright and what the former owners, the city of Munich in particular…