First, as this is just all about the end of THE DESCENT, then, yep, it’s just chock full of spoil­ers. So stop here if: you’ve not seen it you’re going to see it and you don’t like to know how a thing’s going to end Not mean­ing to say THE DESCENT has a gimmick-ending or any­thing — we don’t […]

Been try­ing to fig­ure out what scenes/images from hor­ror movies have become so indeli­bly imprinted on pop-culture that even peo­ple who don’t watch hor­ror kind of have to know them, or at least of them. Which is to say I can’t just pick the coolest or best hor­ror clips–the ones that imprinted me once upon […]

So on the radio the other day I heard a song that took me right back to the sec­ond grade–The Gatlin Broth­ers’ “All the Gold in Cal­i­for­nia.” Some excel­lent stuff. But it got me think­ing about what all else I used to lis­ten to about that time. Up until the fifth grade, any­way. I mean, […]

Just so I can keep track of them, some­what: Barnes & Noble, Lub­bock, Sep­tem­ber 16th. Can’t remem­ber when. 2:30? Some­where around there, I’d guess. Can’t recall if it’s just a sign­ing or a sign­ing + a read­ing, either. But I’ll be there. Demon The­ory. South­west Min­nesota State (Mar­shall, MN): Sep­tem­ber 21st. Prob­a­bly around 7:00, 7:30. […]

In Five Words or Less: Bor­ing title, good movie. In More than Five Words, with / with­out spoil­ers: In 1998, Sam Raimi adapted Scott Smith’s debut sen­sa­tion A Sim­ple Plan (1993) for us, and, though a lot of the narrator’s nuances were lost in the com­pres­sion, still, Smith had writ­ten a strong enough dra­matic spine that […]

Just fin­ished writ­ing the novel I started the day that Cult work­shop went over (21 June; really I fin­ished Fri­day night, I sup­pose, just before Monk). It Came from Del Rio. Noth­ing but fun. Planned to go no more than 240 pages, and then just went 285, which is some­thing of a record for me, […]