PickleGlitch

I'm not a violent person. The closest I've ever come to a real fight was a minor scuffle in high school. My recollection of that...

What follows is a piece I wrote for a flash fiction contest several years back. It didn't win, but it got good feedback and, in...

Sylvester Stallone was 73 years old when Rambo: Last Blood was released. By this time the future Special Ambassador to Hollywood for President Trump had...

"Nothing personal, it's just business." We've all heard some variation of this apocryphal quote from the 1930s mob accountant Otto Berman. Very often we hear...

In this post I'm going to be talking about sexual violence, specifically its place in pop culture. If you are not comfortable reading about that...

Before I get started here, I think you should know that I'm going to get into what might be considered spoiler territory pretty much right...

In 2004 a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean caused a tsunami that killed more than 200k people. Among the victims were more than 800...

It was raining the day I began writing this. That meant I had a 70-pound American Bulldog curled up next to me on the couch...

When I first learned about McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare in high school, our history teacher showed us the 1956 sci-fi horror classic Invasion...

I was recently diagnosed with a serious medical condition called Chronic Superhero Fatigue Syndrome. This illness was only discovered about two years ago and so...