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Wittgenstein & Wordplay: How Mitch Hedberg & George Carlin Used Language Games
Mitch Hedberg is probably my favorite comedian. He’s dead now (he died young from a drug overdose combined with a pre-existing heart condition) but had an active career in the 90s to the 2000s. He was famous for acerbic, single-line gags like, “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat 2000 of…
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Review: Watcher
This is a good one. I came to watch “Watcher” by way of another movie. I happened across the serial killer short “Slut” on youtube and was impressed with its tense riff on the Red Riding Hood story set in what I took to be 1980s Texas. So impressed was I that I looked for…
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Book review: Three-Fingered Willy by Neal McLaughlin
More comedy than horror, Three Fingered Willy draws inspiration from classic ’80s campground slashers—Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, etc.—while adding its own comic twists.If you like your horror bloody, you’ll be pleased that amid the campy dialogue and teen soap opera angst are some genuinely brutal kills. The author clearly did some deep thinking about…
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Review: Sputnik
Have you ever psychoanalyzed an alien? That’s the premise behind the Russian film “Sputnik” which was released in 2020. How does this situation come about? Two Russian cosmonauts are floating in space in the 1980s when their ship encounters… something. It’s never really clear what, and not really necessary to understand. Later, when they crash…