It’s strange to see so many adults acting like children but here we are. Welcome to 2023. It seems silly to read about fellow Americans wanting to expand the footprint of their state because others in their party that live in the neighboring state feel disenfranchised. It seems ridiculous to read about a governor so… Continue reading The It’s Not Fair Party
Who Have You Become
It occurred to me today that I am not sure how the teenage me would react to the middle aged me. I wondered how the kids I was friends with would see me. I wondered how the friends I had even in my twenties that I may not have now would see me. Who have… Continue reading Who Have You Become
NIGHTLIGHT – “found footage”/POV movie review
OK, this is a ‘found footage’ in that it’s done in the same style but it’s not a found footage movie for real-real, one of the many frustrating things that the film has to offer. While this is not really found footage I am calling it that because of the style and presentation. It’s wearing… Continue reading NIGHTLIGHT – “found footage”/POV movie review
The Spooky Chris Podcast
The Revenge Tour
Legislation via revenge. Leadership through grudge. I can’t say that I saw that as where our politics were heading but here we are. We are at the point where people want into politics not to lead, not to give back, heck, not even just to be rich and powerful but to track down their enemies… Continue reading The Revenge Tour
Dreams Without Dreamers
I talked in another blog about the fact that so many, too many, of us have had their dreams denied by systems they had nothing to do with putting in place and with barriers neither they nor their families helped to build.The world was against them because of their skin color, religion, sexuality, income level,… Continue reading Dreams Without Dreamers
Slashing
Despite the side eyed looks the films in the slasher subgenre get, these are some of the most fun, and most daring of the horror film genre. At their worst they are pure popcorn fun. Prudish fantasies full of sex and violence that are clumsily warning teens against the sins of flesh. At their highest… Continue reading Slashing
Books For Everyone
When I started writing I was writing for myself, and while I still do that I have found over the years that I am writing things for everyone by writing for me, and as such, HEY, I am writing books for you. Over the years I stretched myself, letting myself not just be a 'horror… Continue reading Books For Everyone
A Legacy of Rage
As another story of school violence comes out where a worker has been brutally beaten until unconscious and the student wouldn’t have stopped their beating until the victim was dead if they had not been restrained we have to ask ourselves what it will take to wake us up. A brutal war has been going… Continue reading A Legacy of Rage
Another SHADOW ON THE VIOLETS Tease
One of the really fun things I found in writing this book was that it allowed me to create a fictional book series from another time which had inspired the main character of A SHADOW ON THE VIOLETS. The book series focuses on an old farmer named Leery and his goat, named Lucifer, who helps… Continue reading Another SHADOW ON THE VIOLETS Tease
Smaller, and Smaller, and Smaller
With another Marvel movie release there are more naysayers that speak of the glut of Marvel and superhero films and the weariness some find in these movies. To me it’s silly because these are a subgenre now standing between action movies and sci-fi movies. They have proven themselves and they’re here. I get it, folks… Continue reading Smaller, and Smaller, and Smaller
The Slippery Real
Boy, oh boy did that slippery slope we have all been navigating suddenly turn into a water flume ride. WHOOSH! Down we go. It was bad enough when we had to start contending with the new breed of gaslighters who did it for profit and power alone. Bad actors that weaponized misinformation in ways never… Continue reading The Slippery Real
Leave It
There’s something a bit macabre and unnerving in the need to whitewash, for lack of a better term, fiction and ‘art’ of any sort. While civilization and attitudes and beliefs should (should, I say) be more malleable, ‘fact’ and history should be set in stone. You don’t have to like it or agree with it… Continue reading Leave It
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 