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]
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…
Oh, The Things I Saw (May 2014 edition)
May was a light movie month for me, but I still saw some worthwhile stuff, in addition to revisiting an apocalyptic piece of crap I had to rescreen for my…
A Little Housekeeping Note
Just so you know, I've changed the comment settings here at "The Website of Jim Snowden, Author" so that registration and login is no longer required. Comments from you, the…
A Reader’s Perspective on Christmas in the Third Reich
From my reader, Lilo, (b. 1939, near Munich), further evidence that any changes the Nazis made to Christmas celebrations were subtle and often ignored by the German public: I wasn't…
8 Signs That You Are A Conspiracy Theorist
THEY made me write this. Just kidding. No one made me write this. Or did they? All right, enough. We can all recognize the conspiracy theorist. Sometimes we've ended up…
Going For the Title
I just finished the first draft a new short story about a young woman who misses out on the Summer of Love because she has to edit her ailing Dad's…
Review: The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl's life, to whatever degree it was horrible or wonderful, will always be linked with her direction of two films for the Third Reich: Olympia and The Triumph of the Will. What…
Oh, that Song…I Loved It In Goodfellas
Today, the staff of The Millions posted a piece on art that they discovered through other art, and while, much like Edan Lepucki, I can't say that literature has often led…
Coming Unglued
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