There is an unshakable feeling of horror to where American capitalism is heading. A sense we have conjured something we cannot control. A sense that on our collective tombstone, it shall read only Hubris. We have been voyeuristically watching one another live our lives and yearning for wealth thinking there is no baggage involved. I… Continue reading Random Acts of Cruelty
Tag: Art
Too Broke To Care
Do you sometimes get the feeling that there’s a running joke that you’re not a part of and you just can’t figure out what it is? In this case, the joke is on the working class and it’s the management class and higher that’s laughing. The thing is that I don’t think it’s a particularly… Continue reading Too Broke To Care
The Spooky Chris Podcast – The Bureaucracy of Events
In which I talk about the bureaucracy of events and how the bigger an event or show gets, the more people that get involved, and the more the love of the putting it together wanes.
Feast and Famine
I can’t say I ever read reviews for my books, what few there are. I can’t stomach it. I am sure it’s something I didn’t learn when I was younger, that ability to take criticism, digest it, soak up the nutrients and expel the rest. All I know is that I have always had a… Continue reading Feast and Famine
BLACK CAR has arrived
My newest book, Black Car has finally arrived. This was one of the books I wrote in 2022 and I am excited to finally have it out. The book is a dark thriller about a desperate woman who takes a job driving for a shadowy organization in order to pay her bills. What seems like… Continue reading BLACK CAR has arrived
The Spooky Chris Podcast – Con Pact
In which I talk about the unspoken agreement between convention promoters, vendors, and guests. Theme by Ross Grimson
Day Job
There’s a strange disconnect between art and entertainment and the people that consume it. A disconnect that somehow doesn’t see the people involved in the creation of said entertainment and art. Both things are necessary, are part of not just our cultural makeup but part of what gets us through the day to day struggles,… Continue reading Day Job
Nuance
When we’re kids we don’t understand the concept of nuance. We don’t get that the world is made up of gradients of gray and is rarely black and white. We need that black and white though, need to learn first that there is a difference between acts that are good and acts that are bad. … Continue reading Nuance
Taking Our Art Away
Look, I get tired of political posts too but darn it, we’re in highly political times so, it is what it is. I’d much rather write about nerdy movie junk but there’s not that much on my mind of late, other than my feeling that ‘90’s action schmaltz has aged poorly. Anyway. There’s a scary… Continue reading Taking Our Art Away
The Doom Of Geekdom
I was a STAR WARS kid growing up. I had the toys, I loved the movies, and I imagined that universe and its people all of the time. I wondered what Episodes 1, 2, and 3 might be (since we started, it turned out, with part 4) and wondered where it’d all lead. I don’t… Continue reading The Doom Of Geekdom
The Spooky Chris Podcast
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
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
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 