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What Raiders of the Lost Ark Got Right About the Ark of the Covenant
Indiana Jones and the Nazis both believed the same thing about the Ark of the Covenant: whoever holds it holds the power. 1 Samuel 4-6 is the block of chapters written to take that idea apart. Here is what the movie got right, what it inverted, and what would actually have happened in that canyon.
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The King in Yellow — The Eye and the Line (2 of 4)
The eye that sees the whole web is also the eye that flattens. Web-cognition, the 2 AM line, and why Rust doesn’t fade into Carcosa when he’s tired. He fades in when he stops. Section 2 of 4 in The King in Yellow series.
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Every Strength, Every Weakness, Nobody in the Room
Grading it nine to ten, not one to ten. Christopher Nolan shot the Odyssey on IMAX film and called it an event, so it’s fair to ask whether he reached the epic he promised. He didn’t, and the gap is worth understanding.
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The King in Yellow (1 of 4)
Pizzolatto didn’t invent Carcosa or the Yellow King. He borrowed them from Robert Chambers, 1895. Reading the source changed what I saw in the show, and what I think the horror actually is.
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How Fight Club Helped My Fear of Flying
A bumpy flight to Phoenix triggered five years of crippling fear of flying. Then Tyler Durden’s brutal honesty and a couple meditation apps helped me break the cycle. Sometimes the best medicine comes from the last place you’d expect.
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What Is a King? The Return of the King (3 of 6)
The *imago Dei* still knows what kingship looks like, even after the world has stripped every reference for it from daily life. There is one scene in cinema that proves it every time.