Authors have gone to great length over the years to discuss horror and how it is used as a means of catharsis – a way to confront the horrors of the world real or imagined and to see them faced and conquered. Horror is our way to lean out over the edge of the chasm… Continue reading Drawn To The Dark
Category: Bloggy
School Grays
School Grays Fair warning, this is a very long bloggy post. After writing my last blog about Halloween I heard something that got me thinking, thinking about school and the way we treat school…and the way we treat our kids. You would think that in 2015 we would be at a place where education was… Continue reading School Grays
Taking Back Halloween
We need to take back Halloween! Yes, let's take it back. TAKE IT BACK! Only...we're the ones that gave it away. We're the ones that let people take it. WE are the ones that made it so easy to take. Here's the thing, I love Halloween. LOVE IT. RARRR! Halloween, like Christmas and Thanksgiving, are… Continue reading Taking Back Halloween
Bully For You
On this Thursday I don’t find myself reminiscing over some great adventures or fun times with friends. I find myself drawn back to the dark days of my youth, days that I thought had died but which lingered too far into my adulthood. To say I was bullied in school isn’t a revelation and it… Continue reading Bully For You
BOUNDARIES
There’s a difficult time when we are young and are just discovering what boundaries are, those invisible lines that each of us has and never wants crossed. The easy thing is learning that there are boundaries, the hard part is knowing where they are with each situation and each person. Each circumstance dictates different behavior… Continue reading BOUNDARIES
The Man Behind The Screams
The Man Behind The Screams As I write this the horror world is reeling from the loss of one of its modern legends – director Wes Craven. The loss of Mr. Craven is a bleak reminder that many of the great horror talents from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s are entering their twilight years. I… Continue reading The Man Behind The Screams
And The Geeks Shall Inherit Themselves
Sometimes it feels like I go around and around on a topic so many times, from so many angles, that I am living in a strange sort of time loop and am not really getting anywhere. But it’s not that I am not getting anywhere, people are the ones not getting anywhere. The people in… Continue reading And The Geeks Shall Inherit Themselves
The Ghost of Civility
Ya know what, I refuse to believe that there was ever any true ‘golden age’. A golden age is something we make up in the present and toss over the past in a wave of nostalgia and misguided fondness for things of long ago. Truly, we are people of the present, even those of us… Continue reading The Ghost of Civility
Never Left
On this Fourth of July, as we revel in the bombastic nature of patriotism, remember the many things we have to be thankful for, we Americans, and remember the things that must still be changed in this nation of ours, it is also a good time to remember and honor Those That Remain. Hope. Re-Birth.… Continue reading Never Left
The Show Must Go On
I have been doing conventions for a long time. A long, long time. Both comic and horror with some art and book festivals thrown in for good measure. This past weekend I went to what was easily the biggest horror con I have ever done – Days of the Dead, Indy. I was so fired… Continue reading The Show Must Go On
One For The Road
There are topics that I write about and will swing back to time and again as new perspective emerges, as I discover I have more to say, or when I just plumb forget that I wrote about the topic. Oops. As more and more films are remade it occurs to me that we still have… Continue reading One For The Road
The Art of Art
The Art of Art In the rush to embrace the next trend, crown the next genius, and jump on the next bandwagon I think we forget that art is about you. Or rather You. Art is a lot of things, so many things that people get years of schooling just to tell others what is… Continue reading The Art of Art
The Professionals – more rambling about conventions
The Professionals I have written a lot about conventions and I will keep writing more because I have been attending and involved in them since 1994. I am certainly not the biggest flag bearer for cons out there because I don’t attend that many, but I have vended, attended, and put one together for four… Continue reading The Professionals – more rambling about conventions
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 