Pop Culture. Crude Humor. Bottom Feeding Attempts at Intellectualism.
Laying awake at 2am in the dark, my mind drifted to thoughts of the upcoming Spring holidays, Easter and Passover. Both involve a visitation by a mystical entity: the Easter Bunny and the Angel of Death. One brings delightful baskets of candy to good little boys and girls. The other brings, well, death -- unless you've taken the precaution of smearing some lamb's blood over ...
February is Women in Horror Month, with numerous websites and publications celebrating women's contributions to the genre in all forms of media from print to film. This month, I got to take part in the festivities with a new guest post published on The Horror Tree. The site does a lot for writers in the horror and speculative fiction community and have been featuring guest ...
The last episode of Supernatural, television's longest-running genre series, has finally aired and I don't know how I feel about it. Having watched from the beginning, it's tough to say goodbye to a show that was a fixture of my Thursday nights for nearly 15 years. Supernatural is one of those shows that, when you meet someone else who watches it and has just as ...
Just when you think 2020 can't get any weirder, action star Vin Diesel has released his first musical composition, "Feel Like I Do." Yes, the big, beefy guy from the Fast & Furious franchise dropped this revelation in a socially-distanced appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. It's ironic that Diesel chose to make his foray into the world of creating club music in a year ...
I got up to pee, squinting my eyes at the clock to see what time it was. It was 3am on September 3rd, 2020. Then it hit me. Shit. It was now officially 11 years since my father had passed. It was 11 years since I went to sleep after my last phone conversation with him the night before -- September 2nd, 2009 -- hearing fear in his voice ...
Listening to a new album by a favorite artist is like getting coffee with an old friend you haven't seen in a few years and hoping they haven't turned into a total cunt in the time that's elapsed. Sometimes, you pray for it to be over and find yourself content with the memories of a time gone past. And in some instances, you pick up ...
On my way to Wawa this morning, I walked past an empty bottle of Coors and a tied-up bag of dog turds lying next to each other on the sidewalk. And then a butterfly floated past. If that's not an image of hope -- that something beautiful can still happen, even if you've had shitty beer and a handful of dog doo -- I don't ...
Dear 11-year-old Lana, You're not gonna believe this shit, but this is Future Lana writing to you from the year 2020. Crazy, right? Speaking of crazy, that word doesn't even begin to describe this year. Remember how you were obsessed with and creeped out by that "In The Year 2525" song that Mom used to play on the Oldies channel? Welp, 2020 isn't quite that weird, but ...
Oh, the things you think when you stare at the ceiling in the dark! I frequently have insomnia, usually after getting up to go pee in the middle of the night. Following one of my most recent 2am treks to the loo, I crawled back into bed and tried to fall back to sleep to no avail. Good job, Cooper, I thought, addressing myself by my ...
Some people might argue that Bon Jovi's best song is either "You Give Love a Bad Name" or "Wanted Dead or Alive." I disagree. In my humble opinion, "Bad Medicine" is the group's crowning achievement. Now, look. I've had my gripes with Bon Jovi before. On one hand, I always felt they sat on the foppish end of the pop metal spectrum. However, time has borne ...
