Music: Gamazda is back with a SOAD cover

Favorite of the blog, Gamazda is back with another stellar transcription to the piano, this time taking on Chop Suey. Tasty!

Things from Somewhere Else: The 1950s Creature Feature and the Anxiety It Was Selling

Enlargement, rubber suits, mediocre plots, the creatures and SciFi schlock delights, and creates angst that aligned with public concerns of the era

May 9, 2026 - Week in Review

Front matter: As I have begun to post on most days, I have noticed that I am getting pretty consistent subscriber fatigue as indicated by the number of people unsubscribing from the main newsletter. I get that, email fatigue is real, and what was once 1 or 2 posts a

PART TWO: No Offramp

Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here's what it taught us.

Music: Strange Kind of Women

Eliana Cargnelutti and Strange Kind of Women are back, and kicking arse.

PART ONE: The Table Was Always Crooked

The infrastructure of distrust was assembled over decades. Some of it was earned. The rest was sold to us.

One True Church: The Republican Party and the Logic of Rome

If the Democrats are like the messy Protestant universe, the Republicans are pure Catholic hierarchy.

The Protestant Party: Why Democratic Dysfunction Is Actually a Feature

Next up: How the Democratic party eerily mimics the Protestants in America. Some powerful analogs to explore

God's Precinct: Why American Politics Is Actually a Denominational Dispute

Our politics look an awful lot like the messiness of the main branches of religion in this country, are there solid parallels? Start of a series

You Loved to Hate It Until You Needed It (Spirit Air)

The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write

Sunday Grab Bag: Riot Women, Star Wars, & Patrick Boyle

A mixed bag of topics, something lighter for the weekend.

The Man Who Made Everything: Roger Corman and American International Pictures

More on the trash cinema ecosystem: The man that is the epicenter of the phenomena and the AIP studio that defined the genre