Katherine Nabity's Blog

What’s Been Happening? Ultimate Frisbee Fall League, Game 3: Floppy Disc Drivers v. Blockbuster Bids We were only down two guys with a full retinue of woman-matching players. Blockbuster Bids was in a similar situation. We took an early lead; alas, couldn’t hang on to it. Lost at universe point. Floppy Disc 0-3. I did […]

Presence Year: 2024Runtime: 1h 24mRated: R Writer: David KoeppDirector: Steven SoderberghStars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday, West Mulholland Presence is Steven Soderbergh doing Steven Soderbergh stuff. The concept is very simple. In this movie, the camera is the ghost haunting a semi-old suburban house. We see and know only what the ghost […]

Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou As a retelling and re-imagining of the story of Bluebeard, I was interested in this book. Traditionally, Bluebeard is a tale to teach obedience in women, especially in wives, but there is a great deal of ambiguity in the story (as there often is in fairy tales, especially when viewed […]

What’s Been Happening? Ultimate Frisbee Game 2 of Fall League went better than the first game, but, unfortunately, with the same result. Floppy Disc Drivers is now 0–2. Our opponent, The Yellow Pages, is pretty athletic and out-skilled us by a little bit. We were still missing our first round man-matching player, who is a […]

The Town that Dreaded Sundown Year: 1976Runtime: 1h 30mRated: R Writer: Earl E. SmithDirector: Charles B. PierceStars: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells A killer dubbed the Phantom terrorizes the city of Texarkana just after the end of World War II. Held up as an example of a pre-Halloween slasher flick, The Town that Dreaded […]

What’s Been Happening? Ultimate Frisbee Tuesday was our first night of fall ultimate league. Our team, Floppy Disc Drivers, was missing its top three man-matching players and its top two woman-matching players. Our opponent was missing similar level female players so things didn’t get too out of hand for me, but Eric had a hard […]

The Gorgon Year: 1964Runtime: 1h 23mRated: Approved Writers: John Gilling, Anthony Nelson KeysDirector: Terence FisherStars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley A gorgon stalks the village of Vandorf! Except none of the citizens know this because the flesh-to-stone murders are being covered up. By whom? And why? I always appreciate folklore and mythological […]

Issue 12, April 1981 There was a change for Fangoria in the spring/summer of 1981: the newsstand price went up from $1.95 to $2.25. That’s about $8 adjusted for inflation. A note from the editors in “The Postal Zone” warned readers that subscription prices would also be going up over the next few months. The […]

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford An ARC of Why I Love Horror was provided to me by Saga Press in exchange for an honest review. For people who are not horror fans, the genre is perplexing. Why would someone go out of their way to be afraid […]

What’s Been Happening? It’s officially autumn! On the calendar if not the thermometer. Ultimate Frisbee Appropriately, last week was the final game of summer pickup. There were some worrying lightning flashes on the horizon Thursday evening, but they never got close enough to be a factor. We also managed a Friday lunchtime game for the […]