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Steve A. Wiggins
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Married ex-professor, progressive blogger who likes horror and has lived dark academia.
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No FOMO
Some fringe websites (of course I do!) present the case for reincarnation via past lives memories, particularly of children.  You see, adults hear/read/see a lot of things as the years weigh d…
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December 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Flighty Thoughts
Life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.  My apologies if I’m bringing back bad memories of high school biology, but I’m doing an experiment.  It has to do wit…
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December 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Final Rites?
The Conjuring: Last Rites, aka The Conjuring 4, is more of the same.  Reusing tropes that have ceased to be scary, it draws Annabelle back into the story and sets up the possibility of future films…
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December 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Reading Habits
I keep track of my reading on both this blog and Goodreads.  It’s a little easier to follow the numbers on Goodreads, so I tend to use their stats.  One thing I’ve noticed in tracking my pacing thi…
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December 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Elementary, Academia
Continuing my dark academia streak, I enjoyed Brittany Cavallaro’s A Study in Charlotte.  Although I’m not really a Sherlock Holmes fan, I know enough of the lore to appreciate how deeply steeped t…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Oz Undone
Horror is notoriously difficult to define.  Two friends recently suggested that I watch Return to Oz, which, for them, was horror.  Although rated PG, it does shade into horror at several points.  …
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December 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Shipping Tracking
It’s an anxious season. What with porch pirates being a thing and the holiday season near, I think it’s about time to rate shipping trackers.  Please, I am not rating the actual delivery pers…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Scary Television
Since noting some months ago that I’d discovered Dark Shadows on Amazon Prime, it’s no surprise that I’m squeezing in an episode here and there, where I can.  Amazon begins “Season 1, Episode 1” at…
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December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Being Written
Some books want to be written, no matter what major publishers have to say.  The truth is, being an author is more like being a radio receiver than a transmitter.  Books come to you, begg…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Posting
I’ve seen The Post before.  Maybe it took recovering from a vaccine to make me realize, however, just how much we’ve lost with the rise of electronic publication.  Yes, there is now a shot at recog…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Naming Things
There’s this thing that you saw and you don’t know what it was called.  It was, say, an architectural or engineering part of a bridge.  Specifically a railroad bridge.  You’ll find t…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Machine Intelligence
I was thinking Ex Machina was a horror movie, but it is probably better classified as science fiction.  Although not too fictiony.  Released over a decade ago, it’s a cautionary tale about artifici…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Do I Know You?
How do you know someone without ever seeing them?  How do you know they are who they say they are?  I’ve been spending a lot of time on the phone, much of it trying to establish my identi…
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December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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If You Do
Folk horror is particularly open to religion.  The powerful Euro-horror film, The Damned, is nearly worthy of Robert Egger status.  Indeed, the movie reminded me of Egger’s work, so perhaps Thordur…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Eve of Winter
“You must live like a monk!”  These were the words of one of my bosses.  I really couldn’t deny it.  I try to lead a quiet life of reading and writing and I do try to avoid extravaga…
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November 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Books and Mormons
Some time ago we went to see Book of Mormon on tour.  I really knew very little about it other than it was consistently praised as being very funny.  I’m always a little concerned about poking fun …
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November 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Existing Stance
You know, I’ve referenced eXistenZ several times on this blog without really writing about it.  How rude of me!  Well, the fact is eXistenZ is one of my “old movies”—those that I knew from the days…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Thanksgiving Reentry
One of the facets of attending AAR/SBL that I’d forgotten is how international attendees marvel at American Thanksgiving.  While it is far too focused on food for my liking, it is nevertheless…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Spades Are Trump
Sometimes it feels like the world is against you.  I can imagine that if you’re African American it feels like that much more often than if you’re not.  Racism, systemic and horribly pervasive, sho…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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That Was Quick
It happened when I wasn’t looking.  If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that I’ve been in Boston since Friday for the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting.  This is a work event for me and I’m pretty much in …
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November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Boston’s Poe
Among my parasocial relationships, the strangest are those with people long dead.  Poe is among them, and, I suspect, this is probably a common thing.  As I age and find it difficult to muster the …
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Old School
How often do hotels refurbish or do they all look the same?  I met someone in the lobby of a hotel in which I had stayed, okay, 26 years ago.  Nothing about it looked the slightest bit fa…
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November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Revisiting
It’s funny returning to a city you once felt you knew well.  Cities are constantly evolving creatures and even though I got around Boston as a student and then as an employee of Ritz Camera, there …
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November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Boston Bound
Honestly, I’ve reached a stage where travel seems quite a burden.  I’m a creature of habit and I haven’t had to interrupt that habit for three years now.  I missed the last two years of the AAR/SBL…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM