Jasonisms

My mom is visiting her sister just outside of St. Louis. My aunt has Stage IV lung cancer and is going through intense chemo.  This is while I'm in Florida visiting family and staying at my mom's house (taking care of her cat, watering plants etc.).  She called about an hour ago and asked me to find a certain pair of shoes my brother can bring to her while his family goes up this weekend to visit my aunt. I went up to see my aunt previously. While on the phone my mom mentioned she was tired of sleeping on the couch. My aunt no longer able to use the stairs, isn't using her master bedroom on the second floor, leaving it empty. I asked my mom why she didn't just use the bedroom upstairs and she replied that she didn't get good feelings from that room - that she's sensitive to the paranormal and the room scares her. It always has. My aunt moved I to this house which was built in the 1940s, in 1974, and had lived there ever since. I remember going ip there once whe...

I saw a movie. Well, let's face it, I've seen a lot of movies, but this is the most recent movie I've seen (in the theater anyway). And let's also face it, I find the supernatural fascinating. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because the supernatural is sort of like proto-science. And using modern understanding of physics and psychology can explain away a vast majority of the supernatural but then what's left? What do we have when something can't be explained? That's the real terror -- no knowing.  Science explains. Science brings us comfort in a world we work to understand. In my opinion, one of the worst things a "spooky" movie can do is explain what's spooky. By creating an explanation the story tellers are taking the terror of the unknown right out of the story. The Conjuring does that. The movie starts off with a, well, a prelude -- a very creepy prelude about a doll that haunts two girls. This prel...