You know, I've always had a problem with that scene ever since I saw The Ring in the theater. Yeah, it's a scary moment, but it's not something scary happening in the story. It's just the movie cutting away from the story to show something scary. It seems kind of unearned, like one of those internet pranks where it…

Haha, I was flipping back and forth between Monday Night Football and Horror of Dracula.

I think what's important is that the movie is able to keep escalating the tension until the end. Night of the Living Dead is exceptional in that it gets straight to the action, but still manages to keep ratcheting up the tension until the end. Most films can't pull that off, and are better off with a slower opening…

How is it not a horror movie? I've been trying to figure that argument out for years.

I don't know what it is with people wanting so badly to pick apart It Follows. It's not like this is the only horror movie ever made that has characters making bizarre decisions, and it seems clear to me that a lot of the elements that people deride in this movie are deliberate storytelling decisions and not just…

In the town I just moved from, there's a bar that is a shithole dive in every measurable way, except that their six taps are a constantly rotating lineup of mostly semi-local craft beer. If you told the owner about a really good beer you had somewhere else, most of the time he'd order a whole keg of it and you'd see…

Let me kick in one more southern recommendation: Orpheus Brewing's Transmigration of Souls. I don't know what the hell they put in that beer but if I drink two of them I feel like I'm borderline tripping.

I maintain that Halloween is the only remaining uncorrupted holiday in America, in that it's the only holiday that is actually about what it claims to be about. Like, Christmas has all these religious connotations but in practice it's mostly just a deadline to have bought a bunch of stuff. Thanksgiving is…

I saw Nosferatu with a live orchestra the other night, it was pretty amazing. I was high as balls.

This is a very, very tough call between two very different movies: Rosemary's Baby and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Rosemary's Baby is just about the pinnacle of psychological horror. Despite the Satanic angle, it's really about Rosemary's mounting paranoia, and it brilliantly plays two horrifying possibilities…

On the one hand, I'm just about burned out on IPAs. Every brewer has one, so I've had so many at this point that it's hard for me to get really impressed by a new one. That said, it's a pretty reliable order if you aren't sure what you want, and a good indicator of a brand's baseline quality: if a brewery's IPA isn't…

I honestly think Embryonic and The Terror are the best work they've done since The Soft Bulletin. Some of the collaborative stuff they've done lately is not particularly listenable, but I like their overall direction.

I've been reading basically the same comments about Nintendo since the N64: they don't know what they're doing, they don't understand the market, they're putting out "innovations" that nobody asked for, etc. I think Nintendo will be okay.

This is such a weird thing to have put thought into.

They probably both hate Trump, so it's all good.

The only game that I feel like I'm missing out on by going full PC gamer is Bloodborne. The Last Guardian is about to be added to that list, and now this too, I guess.

I think I'm going to grill jalapeno cheddar burgers for my wife and I tonight. I like to put my slice jalapenos in a foil pouch and squeeze in a bunch of lime juice, then put the pouch at the edge of the grill so the jalapenos steam in the lime juice while the burgers are cooking. When they burgers are close to being…

RDR is honestly the only open-world action game that I really like. Loved the slow pace, beautiful settings, and explosive violence. When a game has me content to wander around picking flowers in between high-stakes poker games and blistering gunfights, I know the immersion is working.

Here's the thing: not all Trump supporters are white supremacists, but all white supremacists support Trump, and those Trump supporters who aren't Nazis are at the very least guilty of pretending not to see it.

I know Trump has made it cool to just flatly deny easily confirmed facts and live in an imaginary world of your own invention, but: http://www.wsj.com/articles…