Quote for Today: Mike Kelley
Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, …
Quote for Today: Robert Louis Stevenson
There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual …
Quote for Today: M.R. Laver
Most attribute the domain of night to evil because they can’t see. People fear the shadows of the night because shadows represent the unknown, and the unknown is frightening. They …
Quote for Today: Robert E. Dunn
There is a little furnace within every heart that burns pain. It is formed by a masonry of scars as tick by tick the tireless mechanics of life strip the …
A Suspicious Glow: Light by Sunday Paper
Darkness is usually portrayed as evil and light as good. What happens when light takes on ominous and threatening overtones? This delightfully eerie and atmospheric short film, Light, is the work …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers …
Quote for Today: Tom Reiss
The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of …
Redecorating an Aging Villain: Thoughts on Project Vader
Darth Vader has been the personification of evil for several generations. Is the archetype he represents aging gracefully or not? My first movie theater experience was The Empire Strikes Back …
Quote for Today: Derek Landy
“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the …
Quote for Today: Jim Butcher
No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. …