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Squirrel!

Jen (Matilda Lutz) stalks one of the men who did her wrong on a desolate desert road.

Revenge

 Nov 14, 2018 Content warning: sexual assault. After Jen is assaulted and left for dead she pulls herself together, then takes her attackers apart.
Lead actress Jane Lyle in a still from the movie Island of Death. She is hugging her knees to her shoulders, looking slightly off camera with an expression of schadenfreude.

Island of Death

 Nov 12, 2018 This movie would be a great travel promotion for a sleepy Greek island if it wasn't for all the blood.
Joe Bob Briggs in Western attire with a bolo tie and Dwight Yoakam hat, arching his eyebrow at the camera.

Joe Bob Briggs’s “The Last Drive-In”

 Nov 10, 2018 The single best reason to subscribe to the horror-movie streaming service Shudder is Joe Bob Briggs’s movie marathon.
Black and white photo of Louis Prima

Louis Prima: The Wildest!

 Oct 19, 2018 I know Lois Armstrong, Mel Tormé, Dizzy Gillespie — somehow I missed hearing about Louis Prima.
A close-up of a screech owl.

Representation

 Aug 18, 2018 Cis white men are losing their grip on the representation of themselves and others in our media.
A chunk of of ice floats in a thawing pond.

Let’s chat about abolishing ICE

 Jul 8, 2018 Conservatives keep telling us to tone it down; we should take that as an invitation to turn it up.
The ruins of a miniature golf castle peak out of the dunes of Jockeys Ridge in Nags Head, North Carolina.

Peacekeeper

 Jun 21, 2018 Some thoughts on maintaining our civility when everything around us is an outrage.
Promotional shot of the Marantz MPH-4 studio headphones, large over-the-ear style.

My favorite headphones

 May 18, 2018 Hearing loss changes how I evaluate headphones. My current favorite is a happy accident.
Jetliner landing at CLT airport in North Carolina

Keep On Keeping On: Playlist

 May 12, 2018 Including Kon Kan, Herbaliser, Ronnie Hudson, Venetian Snares
Single cover for Kon Kan's 'I Beg Your Pardon', released in 1989.

Kon Kan: I beg your pardon

 May 6, 2018 When I think about music, I think about it in two periods. There’s before Kon Kan, and then there’s after Kon Kan.
Arial view of a modern shopping complex with dark clouds in the distance.

Advertising abandoned ethics and it's destroying our country.

 Feb 25, 2018 Ad networks, niche targeting, and cost-per-click combine to polarize a nation.
A caterpillar rests on a tree branch at Pandapas Pond in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Find Another Way

 Feb 16, 2018 A response to the argument that gun control is futile because killers will just get the guns illegally or use some other weapon.