Originally published on Facebook 1 November 2017. Spare me your wholly uncomprehending generalizations about how people who like horror or crime fiction, who read or watch (or write) narratives about bad people, are doing so only because it feeds whatever inhuman or evil impulses they have. James M. Cain was not writing for an audience […]
You know, expressions of shock and grief and anger don’t work. Attempts to discuss the easy availability of guns don’t work. So let us try another tack. Let us try polite applause. Yeah, let’s fucking do that. You see, I’m old enough to remember when mass shootings involving no more than five or six or […]
Oh, President Trump, you raging narcissist, you clueless child, you bigoted fool, It is not the job of San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin to offer you political shade. It is not her job to praise whatever rescue efforts you can be shamed into grudgingly offering, or to give you that one thing you prize above […]