Origingally pulished on Facebook in 2015. My mind just drew an interesting mental parallel between the Lovecraftian protagonist exposed to some cosmic terror so vast that it drives him mad, and the crusader who claims to have injured by exposure to offensive language in fiction, or depictions of gay people on movies or television. The […]
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 […]
Originally published on Facebook 7 May 2013. Edited for this publication. Josh Olson, a screenwriter, wrote an essay called “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.” Its thesis was that if you had a nephew or a cousin or next door neighbor of friend of a plumber who wanted Josh to read his screenplay and […]