Today was once known in parts of New England as Mischief Night, or by similar names. My mother grew up in Dedham, MA, in the forties and fifties, and she has an odd story about the tradition she saw in her childhood for October 30th. She grew up in a neighborhood which is now a genteel suburb but was then a commercial intersection full of urban ( Read more... )

Liveblogging as I watch The Crow, because I am catching up on my heritage as a '90s kid, DUUUUUUDE.

I just realized this is Robocop with Goths. This is not a bad thing, but I'm surprised I didn't notice till now, given the parallels. Wide-eyed boy gets killed in the wretched hive of Detroit, Michigan, under horrifying circumstances, at the hands ( Read more... )