…. are essentially this really needs to be over. If John and Sarah Quayle win, well, I just don’t know. Anyone else feel like they’ve been holding their breathe for about six months. …….. Anyway… So I just returned late last night from my six day stint in my home city of Chicago and I’m … Continue reading
I have always had a soft spot for Bill Paxton. Not because he had minor supporting roles in The Terminator or Aliens, nor is it because he directed the vastly underrated and criminally underseen Frailty and neither is it because he is having somewhat of a career revival in the form of HBO’s Big Love. … Continue reading
I am still in a euphoric, child-like awe. After four years of following his career, after whispering about his run to my friends before they knew who he was, after checking fivethirtyeight.com and thepage.com and dailykos.com like I was going to win something, after all that it’s over. Barack Obama will be president. President-Elect Barack … Continue reading
Doubt I need to remind anybody that today is November 4th – Election Day. At this time, let us consider nothing else – not work, not family, not even blogs – until we have voted. Americans in the not-too-distant past have fought and died for our right to vote. It’s our collective … Continue reading
I keep reading and hearing “fairness” coming out of Barack Obama’s campaign. Usually from the candidate himself. It sounds good when he says it because he is a great orator and we ascribe his use of the word fair to our individual circumstances. This is because he uses the “I’m for the middle class, not … Continue reading
And so… On today’s ride, I had the wonderful good fortune of sitting next to a Cholita who smelled as if she had been bathed in Bud Lite. This was not necessarily a pleasant experience. I mean, maybe if it had been Bass on tap… Stella or The ‘ken would have been fine with me … Continue reading
A Nice Hard Slap – Fuck This Face II: Fuck This Face Harder. I have to admit that I’m both alarmed, warmed, and slightly nauseous at the response to my blog about the chiseled and boring face of the kid from Twilight. People seemed to think it was some heavily researched editorial rather than a … Continue reading
I hope to recommend to all horror fans, and most everybody else, a book I recently read called The Wolfman, by Nicholas Pekearo. This is the first published book, published this year, by a young New York writer of ferocious talent. The story is about a war veteran, Marlowe Higgins, who lives … Continue reading
It’s pretty hard these days to create a new and interesting list of horror movies to enjoy during the Halloween season. There are only so many legitimately unsettling movies ever made, and most of those have been written about to death. But for the record, here’s my own personal top thirteen (as … Continue reading
One last quick recommendation for great Halloween fun: Old-Time Radio! If you go to www.otr.net, you will find a vast archive of old radio plays. There you will find many season-appropriate spookfests, and to me, the best one of them all is the Mercury Theater production of The Hitch Hiker. The … Continue reading