There's something about American culture that has embraced the disposability of things to the detriment of the body as a whole. Which is to say that we have gotten so used to the notion of being able to use something and then throw it out that that we have started to treat our relationships that… Continue reading Disposable
Category: Bloggy
Halloween
Halloween has always been special to me. A night of dreams and horror coming together in a twilight dance for both young and old alike. It's a night where we honor our pagan traditions and celebrate how those have evolved with us. There is a beauty to parents joining their children out in the neighborhoods,… Continue reading Halloween
Flint Fright FilmFest 2018
When we started things in 2011 with a horror convention I don't think any of us would have imagined where we'd be in 2018. Most groups that work on conventions either make it or don't, and let's be honest, most don't make it. I don't know if it's strictly financial as much as it is… Continue reading Flint Fright FilmFest 2018
The Difference A Week Makes
A week ago right now I was about to go to lunch at my job. I knew what was coming, that I was going to be fired, but I still had to go through the motions of the day. So that meant lunch. I had an inkling that I was going to be let go… Continue reading The Difference A Week Makes
Do-Over
Starting over is never easy, and rarely sought after but it's a reality of the world. Starting over at forty-four was not what I was hoping to do at this point in my life. Not to say that I ever had some grand plan for things. I tend to build with the blocks from where… Continue reading Do-Over
Letting It Go
It's a heck of a thing to be able to walk away from the last word. To close your mouth, push your tongue against the backs of your teeth, and to set your jaw firmly. Harder still when you feel, as most of us do from time to time, you have been wronged. I HAVE… Continue reading Letting It Go
A Punk Rock Rummage Sale
For me, I never started out wanting to do events. Not in any sort of way. Shoot, go back to my life before I moved to downtown Flint and I would never have thought once about putting an event together. No, for me it was work, the freedom of my own place, and writing. I… Continue reading A Punk Rock Rummage Sale
In Strolls The Boogeyman
I think that this is part of my yearly ritual on the lead up to Halloween. My yearly missive about haunts and haunted houses and the like. I suppose because it’s something I am passionate about and also something I feel knowledgeable enough to speak to. Anyone that loves Halloween knows about haunted houses, even… Continue reading In Strolls The Boogeyman
Embracing the Horror
This is one of those topics that I write about from time to time because it ceases to amaze me how utterly stupid and narrow people can be when it comes to the horror genre. I mean, let's be straight honest here for a moment, there are biases against EVERY genre, people hate musicals, and… Continue reading Embracing the Horror
Who We Stand With And What We Stand For
Fandom is a strange sort of magic. Strangers united under the same umbrella, bound by a love of things that are not always as physical as they are ethereal. Bound by things that the mainstream once deemed as frivolous and wasteful but which found their way into the mainstream. Suddenly the mainstream embraced things they… Continue reading Who We Stand With And What We Stand For
I Am The Door – a short film
When I made The Last Halloween the plan had been one film and done. I would have scratched that particular itch and would feel good about it. One and done. My filmmaking days were really in my youth. When I was a carefree kid improv-ing movies with friends. The older you get the more serious it… Continue reading I Am The Door – a short film
Marilyn and the Werewolf – a book
MARILYN AND THE WEREWOLF It was my mom that got me into horror movies and all things scary. Whether she knew it or not, her interest in the macabre and the dark drew me to it and set me on the path that lead me to where I am and who I am. My mom… Continue reading Marilyn and the Werewolf – a book
Our Lonely Gods
Since the beginning Mankind has looked to the great Other for guidance. It was a Creator, or a Punisher. Or an an all seeing Eye that We have always looked to something else/someone else for guidance. This is not a dig on religion at all, because the needle of faith, the heat of faith, can… Continue reading Our Lonely Gods
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 