Hollywoodland
Film review by: Witney Seibold
George Reeves, famous for playing Superman on the classic television series, may have killed himself on June 16th 1959. There is some ambiguity as to what happened the night he was found dead. Was he killed by a jealous fiancée? Was he accidentally shot? Or did the pressure of being pigeonholed into a role he didn’t really like playing finally take its toll? Read more »
Deliver Us from Evil
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Oliver O’Grady is a kindly Catholic priest who worked among several parishes in Northern California back in the 1970s. He was polite, trustworthy, cared personally for many of his congregants, and would even come to their houses to perform housework, babysit, and give general spiritual advice. Read more »
When Witney Seibold was about 10 years old, he got in trouble for spitting on a new car. Witney wants his teachers and classmates to know that he was not a mean-spirited or unhappy child, and only did this to make his fellow classmates laugh. His classmates were, you see all merely pretending to spit on the line of new cars they were walking by, and Witney thought he could do them one better by actually doing it.
When thinking back on it, he realizes that some poor schmo working at the new car lot would have had to clean his spit off of the car. He apologizes to his classmates (who probably were more shocked than amused), his teacher (who was certainly not at all amused), and especially the unseen car lot attendant, armed with the Windex and paper towels, who was probably cursing his job as he had to lean over and touch a stranger’s saliva. I’m very sorry.
