Author Archives: Stephen Futterer
“The Art of Cleaning (No. 5)”
“Are We Poems?”
Are we poems? If poems are we, I’m jammed between the blackboard And the deep blue sea.
“A COVID Kiss”
“WORMS!”
“You thought you had seen it all! THE SWARM (1978) had killer bees. THEM! (1954) gave us giant post-atomic, man-eating ants. THE DEADLY MANTIS (1957) emerged from Arctic ice to sow destruction on Earth. FROGS (1972) showed mother nature fighting back against chemical pollution. And now WORMS! (2022) reveals the imminent attack of deadly nematodesContinue reading ““WORMS!””
“Holes in the System”
“Looking Up And In”
“C.H.U.D. Mask”
John Heard, one of the stars of C.H.U.D. (1984), actually graduated my high school and was an old friend of one of my uncles from their schoolboy days. I’ve seen a handful of his films besides this one, including A Trip to Bountiful (1985), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), and BIG (1988). I enjoyed hisContinue reading ““C.H.U.D. Mask””
Potent Quotables:
Pinto (Tom Hulce): “Ok, so that means that our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is nuts! That means that one tiny atom in my fingernail could be….” Professor Jennings (Donald Sutherland): “….could be one tiny little universe.” Pinto: “Can I buy someContinue reading “Potent Quotables:”
“Oh, Baltimore…”
This makes no sense to me. You would never wash these things together. The black mask is laundered in cold. The two feathers should be hand-washed. The cigarette butts are to be soaked in warm, sudsy beer for 4-6 hours and then air-dried. Toss the paper. The Tic-Tac case goes into a drawer for anContinue reading ““Oh, Baltimore…””
