If there’s one thing Watching Wyrd  does exceptionally well, it’s lovingly tearing apart the movies that shaped us—while admitting we’d absolutely watch them again. Last night’s episode delivered that energy in spades as we tackled three pillars of 80s bar mythology: Cocktail , Road House , and Urban Cowboy . From the jump, Rich came in hot —armed with peak snark and zero mercy. No movie was safe. Not the bartenders. Not the bouncers. Not the wildly irresponsible life choices

If I trace the thread back far enough, I know exactly where this began. I was ten years old when my parents took me to see The Last Unicorn  in the theater. At the time, I thought I loved horses. I thought that was the whole story. But that film slipped something older and stranger into my bones. It wasn’t just a movie—it was an initiation. A door cracked open onto a deeper world of myth, loss, beauty, and things that refuse to be owned. I didn’t have the language for it then

Some writers imagine the end of the world. Scott M. Baker prepares for it. Scott was born and raised in Everett, Massachusetts, and spent twenty-three years in Northern Virginia working for the Central Intelligence Agency—a life built on analysis, investigation, and asking the questions most people would rather not know the answers to. Retirement didn’t soften that instinct. It just gave it a new direction. These days, instead of classified briefings, Scott dissects monsters.

Writing in Mississippi often feels like living inside a long memory. The literary world here isn’t sprawling—it’s intimate, familiar, and rooted in place. Last summer, while organizing a silent auction fundraiser, I reached out to Greg Iles  to ask if he might be willing to donate a few books. I knew his name the way you know rivers and old houses—permanent, unavoidable, woven into the cultural spine of the state. A titan, yes. But still, at that point, a distant one. He pass

The Abhartach doesn't arrive as strangers. They are familiar. They speak the language of home. They sing old songs. They claim shared struggle. And by the time you realize what they are, they’ve already sunk their roots deep into the land—and into your neck. I’ll admit it right out of the gate: I love vampires—but not the seductive kind. I’m drawn to the old ones. The kind that don’t bother with charm because they don’t need it. They don’t whisper promises from velvet shadows

Blondes, Books & Campfire Tales  is currently on hiatus from the Wyrd Realities Network. This pause is an intentional choice as one of the hosts prepares for and recovers from an upcoming surgery and takes the time needed for rest and healing. Stepping away allows space to focus on health, recovery, and care—things that always come first. While the campfire is quiet for now, the stories, laughter, and community Blondes  has created remain an important part of the Wyrd Realiti

Wyrd Realities has always been about stories—the kind that linger, unsettle, and invite you to look closer. The site has grown and shifted, and now it’s stepping into a clearer shape: a home for film, writing, and the art of storytelling. At the heart of it all is Watching Wyrd , our author-led movie review show where we watch films like storytellers. Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cult classics—we pull them apart for structure, theme, myth, and meaning. We argue (kindly), chase r

This Halloween the Watching Wyrd crew dove into a dark double feature with The Crow and, Salem’s Lot. 

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Our tale begins in the year 1884, on an autumn evening in the small town of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Jim Bob Duncan, a young man, was...

In life, we often find ourselves caught up in the whirlwind of responsibilities, expectations, and deadlines...

Have you ever felt a deep connection to nature or a yearning for a more spiritual way of life? Shamanism, an ancient tradition focused on...

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