Thankful

This year will go down as the worst ever, for many of us. As we stumble into a holiday season unlike any other in memory, the coronavirus is spreading like wildfire all across the United States, reaching absurdly high and frightening numbers of new positive cases and deaths. The US presidential election is over (no … Continue reading Thankful →

Cover to Cover: Reeling in the Years

Few leisure activities are as pleasurable or informative as flipping through old magazines. They offer a window into the past, transporting us back to eras we knew as children or that we never lived through but can via the magic of the magazine. In many cases, magazine covers alone are enough to trip us back … Continue reading Cover to Cover: Reeling in the Years →

Interview with the Vampire

It’s 1994 and I’m working at a Waldenbooks in a mall in upstate New York. My manager Jim (can't remember his last name) is probably ten years older than me, so he'd been a teenager in the 1970s while I was just a baby and a toddler. I eat up his seventies stories, which he … Continue reading Interview with the Vampire →

The Pfeiffer Woman

"Yeah, I'm free everyday. It's in the Constitution." - Stephanie Zinone, Grease 2 "What scares me isn't how short life is, no, it's the pain, all the pain. I don't understand why there has to be any pain." - Sukie Ridgemont, The Witches of Eastwick "What are you, the last civilized man?" - Laura Alden, … Continue reading The Pfeiffer Woman →

Gale Weathers, Forever

Part of why I love Wes Craven's Scream movies so much is they star not one, but two, female survivors: Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers. Gale is so crucial. She starts the first film an opportunist, leveraging tragedy for careerist goals. Then, when shit gets real, so does she. Her humanity blooms and we root … Continue reading Gale Weathers, Forever →

“I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand”: Disappearing Subcultures

Living on lockdown, quarantine, or self-imposed isolation due to this horror film we're collectively starring in right now got me thinking about how easy it used to be to move through and within the subcultures of certain communal spaces. Specifically, because I'm a nerd to the nth degree, I'm thinking about a range of public … Continue reading “I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand”: Disappearing Subcultures →

Viva La Pfeiffer!

Michelle Pfeiffer’s birthday has been and gone. Michelle is my favourite actress, I’ve loved her through good movies and bad, and I’ve never seen a …Viva La Pfeiffer!