When people think a B+ or even a B is a bad or unfavorable review, I want to kill and eat them so they'll learn a sense of proportion.

Saying "the ideology behind a work has disturbing implications and cultural associations" is not the same thing as saying the work itself is making people kill, kill, kill. And quite obviously, everyone everywhere "blames" ideologies all the time, otherwise none of us would suggest that Orson Scott Fucktard's…

Your slope just called my slope slippery.

No, but the Rosenbergs actually existed and there is some evidence that they really were, to use a loaded term, "atomic spies" (Khrushchev said they helped the Soviet nuclear program, Brokhovich said they didn't, Feklisov at different times said they did and that they did not). While I agree with the quip that…

Yes, being discomforted by the subgenre's assumptions and influence clearly means I think it MUST be stopped. That penetrating acumen of yours sees through my stoaty claim to love THE EXORCIST and look forward to seeing THE WITCH, while keenly deducing what I REALLY meant. Like the Dowdfinder General, whose B+…

See my post. Believing in fairies or ghosts or werewolves or vampires or Cthulhu or yokai or Sasquatch or Mothman or even Xenu has a lower death toll than believing in witches. Anneleise Michel, the real Emily Rose, didn't die because her parents and two priests thought she was a strigoi or a pod person. Nobody has…

That's pretty much my problem with this subgenre. Very few people have been tortured or murdered, either historically or in the past century, because they were thought to be werewolves or vampires. Living humans pretty much COULDN'T be mistaken for "real" folkoric vampires. — you had to be a bloated red-faced corpse…

So, you didn't ask him about basing his GOODBYE GIRL character on his old roommate Harlan Ellison? I remember him talking about that on the Larry King radio show in the 90s. In the same interview, he talked about how much he wanted to do EATERS OF THE DEAD (the Michael Crichton novel that eventually became THE 13TH…

Wolfe is a conservative Catholic and all that entails, but he can write, and as Eric Flint has observed, he generally avoids ranting douchebaggery. As Flint has also observed, the respect he's earned in the field gives the lie to the Sad Puppies' absurd butthurt whinging that conservatives and Christians aren't…

His radio DRACULA is quite wonderful, bringing out the sexual undertones (the Count says, of Mina, "I have known her") and having Agnes Moorehead's Mina snatch the stake from Van Helsing's hand and kill Dracula when the men are under the Count's hypnotic sway. Martin Gable is Van Helsing and Welles is Seward as well…

He wasn't originally hired as the director, only as an actor. Heston fought for him and kept the studio away from him. That's why the scene in ED WOOD is bullshit. Heston was always attached to the film as the star (the novel it's based on is about a gringo cop with a Mexican wife), so it's not like anyone was…

The "original" performances were by the Loessers at their parties. Mrs. Loesser was allegedly peeved when her husband sold it to the studio, as she considered it "their" song.

Yeah, the dilemma is so phony. If she has time for a full-time job, she has time for weekly dates with the co-worker she has a crush on.. Just tell Hot Foreign Guy about her crazy brother, give him a chance to volunteer to come along and wait in the car or the hospital lobby (but don't ask or expect him to), and ask…

I showed this review to a female friend, whose hackles rose at Ms. Rife calling the classic Eartha Kitt version "barely tolerable." Quoth her: "I ever catch that woman alone, I'm going full Ronda Rousey on her skinny white ass for saying that about Eartha."

Yes, that was my thought exactly Madonna's cover of the song sucks, but this sounds namby-pamby millennial hipsterism. It wouldn't irritate me as much as the asinine pan of Sinatra's Christmas album, by virtue of the fact that it's a about a performance I consider genuinely bad, but then the author says she finds…

Writing a quickie article on Creepy Christmas Customs almost a decade ago, I was doing some lazy "research" and googled "Black Peter" rather than "Zwarte Piet." Which, of course, was when a friend happened to look over my shoulder at the monitor.

Nothing in my very cursory reading suggests that Edward G. Robinson actually named names, as the film depicts him doing. Wikipedia specifically says he didn't, although he did call himself a Communist dupe both before HUAC and in American Legion magazine article. The impression I get is that he denounced (under…

I actually get your point here. Unlike the guy decrying the PC Fascists who allegedly de-Norsed Asgard, this is reasonable.

Anybody who objects to the Kirbyness of Cosmic Thor is the first goddam guy I eat in the goddam lifeboat.

Yes. Yet another twatnabulous hooplehead beating his moobs with his tiny t-rew arms and roaring out his victimization.