That’s an interesting definition you have there

by Pete on August 31, 2010

With Glenn Beck’s Festival of White Resentment going on this past weekend,”black robed regiment” was all over my Twitter feed and Google Reader list like a rash. This meme was new to me, but it had the sound of one (…)

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James Cameron v. the philistines

by Pete on August 30, 2010

Vanity Fair has posted an interview with James Cameron regarding the re-release (*coughMONEYGRABcough*) of Avatar. When asked about Piranha 3D, Cameron sniffs: So there’s no sort of fond connection for me whatsoever. In fact, I would go even farther and (…)

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Childhood traumas: Mike Ryerson

by Pete on August 30, 2010

When I was in elementary school, Channel 4 in Indianapolis would show Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot miniseries somewhat regularly. As I was a rather timid child, my parents would never let me watch it. I eventually got tired of hearing (…)

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Doug Bradley has the right idea, at least

by Pete on August 29, 2010

A bunch of horror blogs I follow seem to be getting pretty excited at the prospect of Hellraiser: Revelations. For the life of me, I can’t understand why. Every Hellraiser movie after the second installment was total shit. The fourth (…)

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Not everything is a metaphor

by Pete on August 27, 2010

Andrew Sabl mourns the death of a metaphor: …except that the “infinite loop” metaphor is dying, almost dead. At 41, I’m almost certainly one of the youngest people to use (in middle school, when it was already almost obsolete) a (…)

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