I grew up listening to old R&B, blues and soul records from the 50's, 60's and 70's, and it’s very much shaped my musical tastes. Both Blue Monday and Ain’t That A Shame were on heavy rotation, but I probably heard Jambalaya more than anything else.  I honestly didn’t even realize he had still been alive, but it’s…

RIP. I very much grew up with his music, but I’m honestly surprised to hear he was still alive up until now. Some great, great classic stuff.

Good Swedish name.

Lagom is a great concept, but a difficult to translate one. To me, “just enough” sounds like you’re giving something up (and good luck pitching that in the US), but it’s more about having a satisfying amount for yourself while still leaving enough to go around. It’s a selfish collectivism, where you’re mindful of your…

Jaywalking is a crime.

I was thinking eaten by dogs, myself.

There has been a large increase in reports of female educators having sex with students as well (but while theroot tends to call out black criminals, when it comes to female criminals jezebel tends to... not). Anyone given power over other people is capable of abusing it and power, especially over children, needs to…

A property I’d love to see remade (or even just HD:ed up) is The Suffering. My absolute favorite horror game from the PS2 generation. The game still holds up, the designs are still strong and the setting is as interesting as ever.

I don’t think it’s really fair to dismiss anyone’s feelings of being discriminated regardless of race, but I have no real comment on these figures. I’m sure there’s plenty of exaggerated fears, but I’m also not comfortable saying all those people’s feelings don’t count because it’s a different narrative.  However,

To be fair, a quick wipe with a wet-wipe or a quick sink-shower to your junk is just standard politeness before any sexual encounter. Doubly so for anything involving the butt. If you’re doing it right, there shouldn’t be any eating of de poo-poo involved.

I like any kind of horror if it’s well done! I hope you’ve checked out Event Horizon for some good transdimensional goodness.

Yep. Some people didn’t like that they switched the races of the protagonist and Sennia Nanua’s awesome little zombie girl, with the teacher being black and the girl being white in the book, if I recall correctly. They had the kneejerk reaction of “oh, so the MONSTER is BLACK, I SEE HOW IT IS” and it’s like, no,…

That’s awesome!

Romero definitely knew what he was doing. This’ll be my third comment in a row mentioning the movie, but Girl With All The Gifts has a similar motif going on used to great effect, as well. Day is the least popular of the original Dead trilogy, but I always thought it was a very underrated movie.

Society collapsing is definitely a common motif, both in fiction and the news, but the zombies winning has been a staple of the genre since Dawn of the Dead and Zombi 2. I think it’s just the natural progression of the story in many ways, zombies can’t be stopped, society crumbles, society starts over. It was used…

Originally, certainly. With the rise of movie makeup and special effects, zombies look less than regular people than ever. The zombie has evolved a lot since the communism days. Nowadays, zombies are as likely to be runners than walkers.

This, by the way, is also why The Girl With All The Gifts is the best zombie movie to come along since Shaun of the Dead. I will argue all day that the people who complained about the racial changes of the cast from book to movie DO NOT GET IT. If they never make another zombie movie again, Girl (yes, I’m giving it…

Sure, but you go from getting in trouble for being a smartass to getting in trouble for calling your m8s “cunts” in the US.

It’s easier to argue that the classic zombie movies were more influenced by fears about America’s enemies at the time, and I believe a lot of the recent zombie renaissance was inspired by the big zombie movies of the 80's and 90's (Dawn ..., Day ..., Return of the Living Dead, et cetera, even Resident Evil on the PS1…

And there’s no question in my mind that when The Coon was introduced, the fundamental underpinnings of this joke are: The Coon was introduced in an episode called “The Coon.” The whole joke is that the name is a racial slur but the character itself is in no way racist. He’s a raccoon. And he does raccoon things and he…