No major updates from me. It seems that — according to newspaper reports — a lot of people are looking for new TV shows and movies and whatnot to binge and stream and so on. I’m finding the opposite. I’m … Continue reading
I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of information about the current situation, and I found this to be particularly clear and helpful: “How to Practice Social Distancing“ And it links to this: “How to Wash Your Hands“ … Continue reading
1. “Do you remember LiveJournal? It was an essential part of my teenage identity.“ I wasn’t on LiveJournal (though I read the journals of friends there), but this definitely describes the experience of blogging in the years before social media … Continue reading
Well, to start, who is Thomas Carnacki? Thomas Carnacki was a supernatural detective, in stories written by William Hope Hodgson in the early 20th century. Carnacki himself was not supernatural (or, as he would have said “ab-natural”) — he just … Continue reading
I’ve written before about my idea of how to best adapt a book into a movie: throw out the book and make a good movie (as Howard Hawks did, for example, when adapting To Have and Have Not, a mediocre … Continue reading
This blog post does have a point, but it may take me a little while to get there, so if you get impatient, you can go down to the bold heading that says “The Point.” In a recent article in … Continue reading