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What do we do about the terrible people in our lives? Mostly we keep loving them.

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

August 18, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

I wished someone would invent an online calculator – the user would enter the name of an artist, whereupon the calculator would assess the heinousness of the crime versus the greatness of the art and spit out a verdict. A calculator is laughable, unthinkable. Yet our moral sense must be made to come into balance with our art-love. I wanted there to be a universal balance, a universal answer. ― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma CBR16Bingo: Bananas We are living in an age where […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Annie Hall, artists, cbr16bingo, Claire Dederer, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Joni Mitchell, michael jackson, Miles Davis, musicians, Pablo Picasso, Popular Culture, Richard Wagner, Roman Polanski, Virginia Woolf, Woody Allen

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:69 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Annie Hall, artists, cbr16bingo, Claire Dederer, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Joni Mitchell, michael jackson, Miles Davis, musicians, Pablo Picasso, Popular Culture, Richard Wagner, Roman Polanski, Virginia Woolf, Woody Allen ·
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the only Scream sequel I need

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

February 21, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Take the meta-horror-commentary of Scream and dial it up to eleven; there at the top of the stairs, silhouetted in moonlight and brandishing a rusty machete, you will find The Last Final Girl. Stephen Graham Jones is leaning hard into the tropes of teen slasher movies, and if you aren’t in on the joke it will fly over your freshly-severed-by-garage-door-head. The story is presented almost as a film treatment; close ups, pans, POVS, and audience responses are all written in and used with cheeky abandon. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies ·
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