Since Scream, there’s been an expectation of a certain level of meta-horror film, a film that turns the tropes upside down. Parodies of the genre have become almost old hat. Films like Cabin in the Woods and Funny Games are of a piece with this idea, that the “genre is dead” and that deconstruction is necessary and possible,… Read More Horror Movies: A Mood, or a Series of Tropes?
Unexpected good news is the best kind….
It’s such fun as a cord-cutter, having HBONow, watching GoT like a real show, instead of bingeing it a year later. It’s also sort of fun as a book-reader, now that small divergences are leading to major divergences. Pretty much all of Brienne and Podrick’s current arc did not happen in the books, and this… Read More The Game of Thrones Celebration Post de Jeur
McArdle on not being stupid about de-incarceration: We’re hampered by the rampant perception that all we need is to wise up and stop incarcerating people for simply possessing drugs, something many of us feel shouldn’t be a crime at all and certainly shouldn’t merit prison time. At the event I attended, someone who has actually… Read More As it Turns Out, People In Jail Commit Real Crimes
When Medieval Inquistion (of the non-Spanish variety) rode into a town beset with heresy, everybody got 30 days to confess without punishment. This was known as the “Term of Grace”. Anyone who came in out of the cold during those 30 days and admitted their heresy was considered saved through the mercy of the Church.… Read More Confess Your Whiteness
I need a nap. In the Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley argues that fossil fuels are not going anywhere. In a nutshell: they’re getting cheaper to get, the alternatives are either false or not feasible yet, and the climate catastrophe is probably overstated. This quote struck me: Although the world has certainly warmed since the… Read More Mad Monday Linkfest
No horse was going to save him. Read the whole thing, as it’s very interesting, and jibes with what accounts of Bosworth I have read. Of course, it bears pointing out that Richard fought like a mad boar at Bosworth, killing Henry Tudor’s standard bearer and very nearly getting to Henry himself before he was… Read More Richard III was Attacked All At Once, Died Swiftly
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Hello, My name is Stacie Huckeba I have been a customer of Comcast for over eight years. I realize that it’s a dirty little secret and you don’t like to talk about it, but c’mon, between just you and me, you can admit it. Basically you have a monopoly on internet…
Philosophy is the Mother of Science, in whose skirts the child hides when it’s scared…
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