Tag: 1970s

Just One More Thing… Or Two or Three: Some Thoughts on The Residence, Elsbeth, and Poker Face

Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]

Playing Broken Telephone With Dracula

My experience is that the result of trying to replicate or revisit something you felt nostalgic about often ranges from puzzling to truly regrettable. Unless you know exactly what about it made you feel the way you want to feel again it’s likely it will be missing that […]

Nazis infiltrating the Counter-Culture

At The Quietus, Spencer Sunshine shares his research on neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and fascist inroads into Amok Press and Feral House presses and countercultural music and art in the 1980s,1990s, and 2000s. Yes, it includes Adam Parfrey and Boyd Rice. “This terrifying global network can have its intellectual […]