I spotted this top in a catalog, and for about two seconds, I liked it. That’s how long it took me to remember something Joe told me a long time ago. It was a story from work. “I saw ________ in the stairwell at work today. She was wearing a red and white striped shirt. I said, HEY, I FOUND WALDO!” I must have looked at him with an expression of horror, because he said “What?” I said, “Joey! She is never going to wear that shirt again!” I really li…
Funny
thing. I chose Candlewood completely at random (Tubi) for an afternoon
movie. It just so happens to take place in a Connecticut town next to
where I lived as a kid, and where my family still lives. You'd think I would have heard of this one, if not from family, then from still-local friends. Then again, maybe not. This movie is a real stinker. There’s a lot
to say about how the town is presented, but there’s no point. Fact is, I
co…
In a perplexing state of "WTF did I just watch" I bring you Cube (1997, Tubi), written and directed by Vincenzo Natali. It was his first movie! It opened to stellar reviews and gained a metric ton of awards for both film and filmmaker. I don't know how I missed it, except that I was pretty busy in 1997. Cube is about seven strangers who wake up in a strange room with no memory of how they got there. It's lit up, its got hatches …
Alright folks, this post is about a new movie, out this year: It Feeds. Now, every time I post in the Horror Facebook Group I'm in, first I do a Search on the title to make sure someone didn't already post about it. If someone did, then I just Comment on their post with my thoughts rather than start a new one... But funny thing about It Feeds...there IS a post already. In fact, there are six! Only thing is? There are no Comments! I figure…
I
randomly chose Exists from the Found Footage menu on Tubi without realizing that
it’s a Bigfoot movie. It came out in 2015. It’s no award-winner, but I
actually liked it! Therefore I was surprised to find it so thoroughly
panned online (Rotten Tomators, IMDB). The consensus seems to be dumb, annoying characters badly
acted, question about why it was even done as FF (no reason for a
camera in the hands a character), and poor writing and d…
This was a surprise! I just watched Evidence (2013) on Tubi. Don't confuse it with the 2012 movie of the same name. In this one, two detectives watch three hours of footage found at a crime scene on four different cameras. The Nevada desert crime scene is gory, and there are two survivors. It's kinda cheating to place Evidence in the Found Footage genre, because it's only when they're watching the videos that it's FF. But we …
Well. Where to start with The Mansfield Ghost. I must say that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. The build-up was very compelling indeed. Lilly has 100,000 Followers and wants more, so she’s branching out from makeup tutorials to ghost hunting . She gets paid to stay in a “haunted” house. She streams video at the house, for three days leading up to Halloween. The videos are entertaining enough I guess, and when I said “compelling” I m…
You
know what? I had no idea Azrael was a scary movie when I put it on—I
only glanced at the description. I registered the words
“post-apocalyptic” and pressed play. I was pleasantly surprised! I love a
woman featured as a badass, and Samara Weaving is a total badass. In
the movie’s universe, it’s like there’s a religious reason that people
don’t talk. Almost no dialogue in this one! One guy, driving a truck no
less, speaks Esperanto—his …
Oh
my God, can we discuss Dashcam? This one takes place during the
pandemic. Annie Hardy takes a trip from LA to London to visit her old
bandmate. What follows I can't even explain. Except to say that Annie is
the world's second biggest asshole. She's a Trumper, first of all. Red
hat and all. She is a pandemic denier, won't wear a mask. She even
steals her friend's car! All that being said...despite hating the
protagon…
Hi everyone, I started typing this on July 7th 2025, and didn't finish/publish until September 20th! I'm going to use the date July 7th, because I want to use the blog to publish some things I wrote on Facebook that I should have published here. So it's been five years since I've updated the blog. It's interesting to come back and see which entries have gotten hits on search engines, rising in the ranks of Popular Posts. I se…
My husband and my therapist are both encouraging me to try and write something. My brain doesn't want to do it. Log dreams, my husband said this morning after I woke up from a particularly fraught dream. Log your moods, my therapist says, wanting me to remember that I have good days. I'm struggling. I don't find joy in anything. I'm having a hard time even putting these words in a row. I mark days by when I can next sleep. I mark…
I say "we're okay" or I say "Hanging in there." I ask "How about you?" and get more of the same. Because what can you say. Can you say "Me? I fantasize about how I could just kill myself if I had to, and I lie to my psychiatrist when she asks me if I have thoughts like that.
I have to keep my days simple, because any stress at all would trigger
me to stay in bed, have fraught nightmares, or cry and have…
#QuarantineThoughts Michael Marotta
It's weird that my cat doesn't know what Europe is. @vexedinthecity
Is cereal, technically, considered a breakfast soup? Sean Drinkwater
Are Burritos why we were put on this planet? Daniel Bernal
I've had a few ambitions. I think I found a new one. I just want to grow up to be Christopher Walken-ish. Lamont Price
Any time Fred Flinstone calls Barney "Barn" you know some shit's about TO GO …
If I could write a book it would be about why members of Generation X are the way we are, and it would *be packaged like a Trapper Keeper. It would be a three-volume encyclopedia of X, and it might even have a coloring book in the back pocket. It would be called There's Something About X (Clever Subtitle Here) , by the blogger known as Low Budget Superhero ( @SuperLowBudge ).
In my book if I could write a book my thesis would prove that Genera…
I'm not working right now because I can't pull myself into the right frame of mind, so to speak. I'm in tatters. My brain broke. Before my brain broke, I worked a lot. I worked A LOT and then I went insane. It took nine years, but what I want to figure out (in therapy every week) is why I stayed in such a toxic situation for so long. They say my nightmares and panic attacks indicate PTSD. I think I did this to myself. I willingly let…
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
—Marilyn Monroe
All the windows are open and sending warm breezes.
Overheard a nearby neighbor who said: "ARRGHHHhaaahh!"
Now he's singing loud to RUN DMC.
Me too, buddy.
Me too. #COVID19
On July 22, 2008 my friends started to lob "movie spoilers" at each other. Here's the list.
It was a sled.
It was earth all along.
He WAS Kaiser Soze.
He was dead the whole time.
He's actually Luke's father.
They shoot the dog.
She leaves Rick and escapes the Nazis.
It's people!
She's a dude.
His wife's head is in the box
It was really the Nihilist chick's toe.
He survives the zombies and is killed by a redn…
When I was sixteen, we lived in the middle of the woods in a super tiny town in an 1860s house. The whole town was haunted, if you ask me. One day, my girlfriend Renee rode her bike over with her Oujia Board. Dead serious, we were meeting after school for this dead serious ghost session and we were both like, totally dead serious about it...that is how we sounded. Well, it was serious in the sense that we weren't merely fooling around with …
Some
of you never wrote a little number above each word in a 500-word essay
to make the point to the 5th grade teacher that assigning word count is
a crime against writing. "So a page?" I had asked. "Five. Hundred. Words," Mr. Flaherty replied icily. I thought the idea was ludicrous but said nothing further. If he wanted 500 words exactly, I figured I'd save him some work by numbering each word. My fifth grade friend K…
1 I gave myself a new short, flippy haircut this weekend. I was going for Charlize Theron but it came out a little Elizabeth Warren. It'll grow out in a few months to look like what my friend Jenny calls my "real estate portrait." Maybe the next time I go short, I'll buzz one side. I always think I'll do that, but then I think about the in-between time, what's it like growing THAT out? Don't you look deranged for qu…
The art that has impacted your life the most since childhood comprises a whole entire pillar of your adulthood. The sum total of what art you have absorbed accounts for an incredibly important part of Who You Are. It's right there in the name: "Art." Art helps each of us "become," and by that I mean stories, pictures, plays, television, puppet shows, novels, games, comics, paintings, poems, comedy, song, dance and music.…
Are you sitting down? Because in my experience, people are shocked when I tell them: I cut my own hair. In fact, I'm about to do it again. I've done it hundreds of times. There are Reasons I can do it, but because I do it myself, I had never fully appreciated the tremendous impact on
society hairdressers have! Based on the depths of desperation on social media vis a vis
haircuts, formally genial citizenry are positively freaking out wi…
Joe finished our Boston puzzle today. It's a graphic illustration of the city drawn in black and colored in, bearing names of all the landmark buildings and attractions such as Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall and the State House. He finished it so fast. It feels so strange to finally see this Boston puzzle assembled. The box is like an old friend that's just kind of always hung around. For about a decade it was the only puzzle in the house …
Today was a therapy day.
That's all.
