Spare Us the Qatar: World Cup Watcher Worship

The 2022 World Cup is upon us, much to the delight of the world and the crushing indifference of uncultured Yanks like myself. And since it is indeed 2022, the goings-on are positively drenched in the high ritualism of the worldwide Watcher cult. 

All slathered with a thick and viscous glaze of Knowles' First Law, of course.

13 Movies You Won't Be Watching This Halloween (But Should)

It's one of life's paradoxes: a lot of my favorite movies are generally classified as Horror, but Horror as a genre usually bores me. It's kind of the same way with me and Heavy Metal. See, the problem when you get to my age is that you've heard and seen it all before. And usually heard and seen it done a lot better.  

And nothing sucks quite as hard as bad Horror or bad Metal.

They Hide in the Light

One of the more fascinating figures of the collision of 20th Century pop culture and future-science is Otto Binder. 

The Owls Are Not What They've Seen

During my Operation Trojan Horse re-read I kept seeing the year of my birth- 1966- recur throughout the text. 

Mindbomb: As Ashtar Commands

I've been re-reading John Keel's Operation Trojan Horse and finding I'm not quite as impressed as I was the first time I read it. 

Wizards, Workings and Walk-Ins

I don't get asked much who my favorite superhero is, but the answer's a no-brainer: it's Doctor Strange.