Originally published on Facebook 1 November 2017. Spare me your wholly uncomprehending generalizations about how people who like horror or crime fiction, who read or watch (or write) narratives about bad people, are doing so only because it feeds whatever inhuman or evil impulses they have. James M. Cain was not writing for an audience […]
Originally published on Facebook (in slightly different form) 9 May 2015. You know, there’s a great – devastating, but great – story from the early days of the AIDS epidemic, culminating when the nurse-narrator hugs a patient in the last stages of the disease. He bursts into tears. “Oh, thank you, thank you,” he weeps. […]
Originally published on Facebook 21 October 2014. Despite it being accepted as a given by everybody who ever mentions it, the CASABLANCA TV series starring David Soul was not some one-of-a-kind, historical icon of awfulness. Really. It wasn’t. It wasn’t terrible at all. It just wasn’t special. Nor was it the crazy stupid thing TV […]