On behalf of my country: I am so, so sorry. If I were the UK I would consider it an act of war. I'm sure we violated some international convention by sending him back.

Please Excuse Meth During A Search?

Oh, goodness. You should totally check out "The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters, too. It is a very skillful and very frightening gothic ghost story.

Holy crap, I remember this book! I was really surprised at how violent it was for a YA novel. Finding this in the 6th grade classroom bookshelf felt like a lot like finding some forbidden tome. It just had the air of "Things That Weren't Approved by the Teacher," some eldritch knowledge left by another morbid preteen.…

There are some pretty great critical scholars in sport, masculinity, and sexualities. Raewyn Connell does a lot of great work in masculinities and sexualities, for example. Anderson seems like he took the field and applied a very uncritical lens to it, which would totally make it a field of douchebaggery.

It's hard to tell whether the post itself is true, but it's dead-on for a whole host of people I've known who shared their trolling with a limited group of close friends. They would troll posts on Reddit, 4chan, and Tumblr because "nobody takes things on the Internet seriously." When pressed on that logic, they turned…

Bonus points for a great Blues Brothers reference in your name! I was totally expecting your two types to be Country and Western.

Serious question, though: where would alt country (ex: early Drive-By Truckers) fit into that distinction? There seem to be a good number of subversive bands that have a definite edge and…

I thought he sounded eerily similar to Johnny Truant from House of Leaves.

I went to the University of North Carolina-Asheville as an undergraduate. It is widely regarded as an ultra-liberal hippie school, especially for a state institution in North Carolina. Their handling of sexual assault was atrocious. My experience of this is all second hand, but I feel it is important to highlight how…

Hurricane Yog-Sothoth. Hurricane Wilbur Whately.

I vote for horror icons:

You shouldn't confuse Candlejack and sle

All four of the major YouTube series on slendermaan (EverymanHybrid, TribeTwelve, MarbleHornets, and DarkHarvest00) deal with slenderman having either "proxies" or cult members that do its bidding, including killing people. It's not really uncommon.

I was under the impression IG either meant "Instagram" or "In-Game", as in how people make their online avatars look like ideal fantasies. I've seen it presented this way as a video game meme, so that's what I thought first, but Instagram makes more sense here. Either way, I read it as a "What you think you look like;…

It startles me that we've really reached the point where everyone's "persona" is scrutinized to see where the "act" breaks down. It's like we've forgotten that everyone is a person, and that while we all put forward faces in different situations it's a little dehumanizing to assume that someone is pulling a schtick…

Is there some inversion of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy called "True Scotsman?" It seems similarly problematic to say "This person says they are X, but according to my definition they are X and should be treated as such" and "This person says they are not X, but they are definitely X according to my definition and…

I had the evil impostor dream, too. My dad's impostor kidnapped me and put me in the car with him and a creepy older man I didn't know. My dad's impostor had bulging eyes that looked like red cauliflower when he was looking at me.

Eventually, my dad rescued me and put me in the back seat of the car. My mom was driving…

Scariest. Scene. Ever.

"I just don't understand women. I'm an aging rock cowboy who works on sheet metal and goes on regular fishing expeditions and my wife does't respond to any of my moves. She's unaffected by 'Fingerpicking the Guitar,' 'Between the (Metal) Sheets,' OR 'The Longest Rod.' I must need Viagra!"

What about sexy Kedollarsha ghosts? We should be sexy ghost positive.