Mazes and Monsters Lives On

Looking up Mazes and Monsters the other day introduced me to an astonishing phenomenon: the Mazes and Monsters fan community. Yes, it exists! Sort of!
There are two things worth noting about the Mazes fan community.
1) This site, which claims inaccurately to be “The ONLY source for Mazes & Monsters!!!” is headlined thus:
“RONA JAFFE [author of [...]

People are Idiots. But Which People?

This is why it’s OK to want to axe-murder those relativist types who attack the Western canon and campaign for us all to study Alice Walker instead of, I dunno, Erasmus or something.
The whole reason people studied the humanities in the first place was out of duty. They inherited this from generations of staid, [...]

Dicks!!! The Big Bad Kills Buffy

Corporate legalistic bullshit is a well-known driving force in our society, but I have to admit I never saw this one coming: 20th Century Fox has put the kibosh on the Buffy Singalong.
Christ, what a bunch of fuckers. How much do you reckon they spent in legal fees to stamp out this little grassroots celebration [...]

“Hostel” to Women!

“Hostile,” get it? Haw! Gotta love a good pun. ‘Good’ being relative. Anyway. This post is NSFW.

While yakking with a pal about that 2005 movie Hostel and its recent sequel, I found myself spiraling into a state of radical feminist anti-media righteous wrath! True, that shouldn’t be hard when dealing with horror culture, but [...]