Compassionately Euthanizing an Obsolete Democratic PartyThe devastating 2024 Republican sweep has occurred for one reason and one reason only: the establishment Democratic Party itself. The…Nov 7, 2024Nov 7, 2024
3 Essays on Virtual Reality (Excerpt)Every living being on this earth exists within a Virtual Reality (VR), whether it knows it or not. For human beings, this is especially so.Apr 9, 2024Apr 9, 2024
How VR Gaming Will Wake Us Up To Our Fake Worlds“It has no relationship whatsoever to anything anchored in some kind of metaphysical superspace. It’s just your cultural point of view […]…Sep 9, 2023Sep 9, 2023
The Uncanny of Point Pleasant: Mothman, Madness, and MourningI am raising funds to attend the academic conference Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and Global Environments at Falmouth…Apr 28, 2023Apr 28, 2023
Infinity Pool and the Infinite SadnessBrandon Cronenberg is back with his third picture Infinity Pool, and if it tells us anything it’s that just because a film is loaded with…Feb 18, 2023Feb 18, 2023
Do we still need film critics?Today, everyone is a critic and virtually everyone writes reviews. I am all for democratization, but that doesn’t at all mean that the…Feb 5, 2023Feb 5, 2023
Oliver Stone’s ‘Nixon’ is still a masterclass in political dramaEvery two years or so I watch Oliver Stone’s 1995 political masterpiece Nixon. Stone is one of the few directors who’s director’s cuts are…Oct 17, 2022Oct 17, 2022
AMC’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ truly sucksAMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is not Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire. There is a Louis and a Lestat, sure. But…Oct 16, 20224Oct 16, 20224