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Fight fascism!
Writer, science-y person, dad, caregiver, wants to be an artist when he grows up.
SFF & moody existential horror. Dada, deco, noir, philosophy. Yunnan tea & long walks on the beach.
Monsters, John, monsters from the Id.
He/him
Writer, science-y person, dad, caregiver, wants to be an artist when he grows up.
SFF & moody existential horror. Dada, deco, noir, philosophy. Yunnan tea & long walks on the beach.
Monsters, John, monsters from the Id.
He/him
A 'mag well' is apparently a flared base attached to the bottom of the grip, which makes reloading faster and easier under high-stress conditions (like when Black Widow has to go up against the Winter Soldier or, y'know, antifa).
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A 'mag well' is apparently a flared base attached to the bottom of the grip, which makes reloading faster and easier under high-stress conditions (like when Black Widow has to go up against the Winter Soldier or, y'know, antifa).
Here's the angle that inspired me to think of that spectacular Martian formation on the right as 'Kong Ridge'.
(Lined up like this, it resembles a small roaring Kong-head statue that the steamship crew in Peter Jackson's remake encounter among the rocks offshore, as they approach Skull Island.)
(Lined up like this, it resembles a small roaring Kong-head statue that the steamship crew in Peter Jackson's remake encounter among the rocks offshore, as they approach Skull Island.)
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Here's the angle that inspired me to think of that spectacular Martian formation on the right as 'Kong Ridge'.
(Lined up like this, it resembles a small roaring Kong-head statue that the steamship crew in Peter Jackson's remake encounter among the rocks offshore, as they approach Skull Island.)
(Lined up like this, it resembles a small roaring Kong-head statue that the steamship crew in Peter Jackson's remake encounter among the rocks offshore, as they approach Skull Island.)
Well, we had a pretty good run.
I wonder if the spiders have seen Phase IV.
I wonder if the spiders have seen Phase IV.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Well, we had a pretty good run.
I wonder if the spiders have seen Phase IV.
I wonder if the spiders have seen Phase IV.
Is that the fancy-ish one google thinks it is?—not what I first picture when I read 'residential hotel'!
It def sounds like a nice place to watch a front move in, though.
It def sounds like a nice place to watch a front move in, though.
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Is that the fancy-ish one google thinks it is?—not what I first picture when I read 'residential hotel'!
It def sounds like a nice place to watch a front move in, though.
It def sounds like a nice place to watch a front move in, though.
People talk about tardigrades, which are fantastic, but rotifers ("wheel animalcules") also rule.
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
People talk about tardigrades, which are fantastic, but rotifers ("wheel animalcules") also rule.
Killer Noirvember/Christmas crossover list—
includes
Eyes Wide Shut,
Night of the Hunter,
The Thin Man,
& the fantastic
The Silent Partner 1978
(Any movie with Christopher Plummer playing the villain is a must see. Also Susannah York, John Candy, & some guy named Elliott Gould.)
includes
Eyes Wide Shut,
Night of the Hunter,
The Thin Man,
& the fantastic
The Silent Partner 1978
(Any movie with Christopher Plummer playing the villain is a must see. Also Susannah York, John Candy, & some guy named Elliott Gould.)
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Killer Noirvember/Christmas crossover list—
includes
Eyes Wide Shut,
Night of the Hunter,
The Thin Man,
& the fantastic
The Silent Partner 1978
(Any movie with Christopher Plummer playing the villain is a must see. Also Susannah York, John Candy, & some guy named Elliott Gould.)
includes
Eyes Wide Shut,
Night of the Hunter,
The Thin Man,
& the fantastic
The Silent Partner 1978
(Any movie with Christopher Plummer playing the villain is a must see. Also Susannah York, John Candy, & some guy named Elliott Gould.)
Appreciating the late Thomas Disch, versatile writer of dystopian science fiction, existential nightmares, poetry, and The Brave Little Toaster—among other things.
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Appreciating the late Thomas Disch, versatile writer of dystopian science fiction, existential nightmares, poetry, and The Brave Little Toaster—among other things.
And then there's...I Drink Your Blood.
(They're going to flag this pic, but it's just an entertainingly-bad severed hand.)
I actually recommend the film! Lolol. It's got scattered moments of really good filmmaking amidst the shlock, and that weird 70s intensity.
(They're going to flag this pic, but it's just an entertainingly-bad severed hand.)
I actually recommend the film! Lolol. It's got scattered moments of really good filmmaking amidst the shlock, and that weird 70s intensity.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
And then there's...I Drink Your Blood.
(They're going to flag this pic, but it's just an entertainingly-bad severed hand.)
I actually recommend the film! Lolol. It's got scattered moments of really good filmmaking amidst the shlock, and that weird 70s intensity.
(They're going to flag this pic, but it's just an entertainingly-bad severed hand.)
I actually recommend the film! Lolol. It's got scattered moments of really good filmmaking amidst the shlock, and that weird 70s intensity.
The Sovereign of Halloween is dropping by to tell you that you're enough, and that even if you don't think you are.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Sovereign of Halloween is dropping by to tell you that you're enough, and that even if you don't think you are.
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Dan O'Bannon, of Alien fame, did a more faithful & gooey version in 1991, called The Resurrected.
Studio buried it & the script does have issues, but Chris Sarandon has a grand time chewing scenery as the evil Curwen. And the flashback/catacombs scenes are fantastic.
Obscure but worth looking up.
Studio buried it & the script does have issues, but Chris Sarandon has a grand time chewing scenery as the evil Curwen. And the flashback/catacombs scenes are fantastic.
Obscure but worth looking up.
October 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Dan O'Bannon, of Alien fame, did a more faithful & gooey version in 1991, called The Resurrected.
Studio buried it & the script does have issues, but Chris Sarandon has a grand time chewing scenery as the evil Curwen. And the flashback/catacombs scenes are fantastic.
Obscure but worth looking up.
Studio buried it & the script does have issues, but Chris Sarandon has a grand time chewing scenery as the evil Curwen. And the flashback/catacombs scenes are fantastic.
Obscure but worth looking up.
Back then only a few would get excited to hear "from a story by HP Lovecraft", so they shoehorned it into their Poe series.
It's a loose adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a great HPL yarn (& one ripe for a prestige/revisionist adaptation). Curwen is a crackerjack evil villain.
Dan O'
It's a loose adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a great HPL yarn (& one ripe for a prestige/revisionist adaptation). Curwen is a crackerjack evil villain.
Dan O'
October 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Back then only a few would get excited to hear "from a story by HP Lovecraft", so they shoehorned it into their Poe series.
It's a loose adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a great HPL yarn (& one ripe for a prestige/revisionist adaptation). Curwen is a crackerjack evil villain.
Dan O'
It's a loose adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a great HPL yarn (& one ripe for a prestige/revisionist adaptation). Curwen is a crackerjack evil villain.
Dan O'
Trippy
The Endless
Messiah of Evil
MADS (wild French zombie flick)
The Last Wave
The Iron Rose (extreme slow burn, weird af, 99% mood)
Lifeforce (sexy space vampires+Tobe Hooper with a blank check oh yes)
Oldies
The Invisible Man (Claude Raines!)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both)
Them
The Birds
The Endless
Messiah of Evil
MADS (wild French zombie flick)
The Last Wave
The Iron Rose (extreme slow burn, weird af, 99% mood)
Lifeforce (sexy space vampires+Tobe Hooper with a blank check oh yes)
Oldies
The Invisible Man (Claude Raines!)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both)
Them
The Birds
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Trippy
The Endless
Messiah of Evil
MADS (wild French zombie flick)
The Last Wave
The Iron Rose (extreme slow burn, weird af, 99% mood)
Lifeforce (sexy space vampires+Tobe Hooper with a blank check oh yes)
Oldies
The Invisible Man (Claude Raines!)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both)
Them
The Birds
The Endless
Messiah of Evil
MADS (wild French zombie flick)
The Last Wave
The Iron Rose (extreme slow burn, weird af, 99% mood)
Lifeforce (sexy space vampires+Tobe Hooper with a blank check oh yes)
Oldies
The Invisible Man (Claude Raines!)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both)
Them
The Birds
Unparalleled mood. Enjoy!
And watch out for The Fates.
And watch out for The Fates.
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Unparalleled mood. Enjoy!
And watch out for The Fates.
And watch out for The Fates.
Good morning, Cap!
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Good morning, Cap!
PSYCHO
THE BIRDS
NOTORIOUS
THE BIRDS
NOTORIOUS
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
PSYCHO
THE BIRDS
NOTORIOUS
THE BIRDS
NOTORIOUS
Late to the party but,
The '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just superb. ('56 is also great.)
The Endless—perfect think-y/scary cosmic horror.
A Dark Song—the best occult movie ever made? Slow burn fires on all cylinders.
MADS—the French hallucinogenic zombie flick - is great/immersive.
The '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just superb. ('56 is also great.)
The Endless—perfect think-y/scary cosmic horror.
A Dark Song—the best occult movie ever made? Slow burn fires on all cylinders.
MADS—the French hallucinogenic zombie flick - is great/immersive.
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Late to the party but,
The '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just superb. ('56 is also great.)
The Endless—perfect think-y/scary cosmic horror.
A Dark Song—the best occult movie ever made? Slow burn fires on all cylinders.
MADS—the French hallucinogenic zombie flick - is great/immersive.
The '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just superb. ('56 is also great.)
The Endless—perfect think-y/scary cosmic horror.
A Dark Song—the best occult movie ever made? Slow burn fires on all cylinders.
MADS—the French hallucinogenic zombie flick - is great/immersive.
etc for the audition & Leone goes NO! I want everyone in the theater to say Holy Shit That's Henry Fonda!
All have epic Morricone scores. OUATITW is one of my favorite films.
All have epic Morricone scores. OUATITW is one of my favorite films.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
etc for the audition & Leone goes NO! I want everyone in the theater to say Holy Shit That's Henry Fonda!
All have epic Morricone scores. OUATITW is one of my favorite films.
All have epic Morricone scores. OUATITW is one of my favorite films.
I love Veronica Cartwright's performance more and more as I rewatch this favorite . Intense, comic, heartbreaking; she's just superb.
"Of course. Why do we always expect *metal ships*?"
"Of course. Why do we always expect *metal ships*?"
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I love Veronica Cartwright's performance more and more as I rewatch this favorite . Intense, comic, heartbreaking; she's just superb.
"Of course. Why do we always expect *metal ships*?"
"Of course. Why do we always expect *metal ships*?"
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
The Bellicecs!
The Bellicecs!
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
The Bellicecs!
The Bellicecs!
No matter how you slice it, the universe is EXTREMELY strange.
Still ~ a string theory skeptic, but I suppose I do believe in dark matter, even though it makes my tummy hurt sometimes.
Remember:
"you must look at all seven acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background, not just the first two"
Still ~ a string theory skeptic, but I suppose I do believe in dark matter, even though it makes my tummy hurt sometimes.
Remember:
"you must look at all seven acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background, not just the first two"
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
No matter how you slice it, the universe is EXTREMELY strange.
Still ~ a string theory skeptic, but I suppose I do believe in dark matter, even though it makes my tummy hurt sometimes.
Remember:
"you must look at all seven acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background, not just the first two"
Still ~ a string theory skeptic, but I suppose I do believe in dark matter, even though it makes my tummy hurt sometimes.
Remember:
"you must look at all seven acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background, not just the first two"
One of the scariest-looking monsters ever, that ol' "of Piedras Blancas."
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
One of the scariest-looking monsters ever, that ol' "of Piedras Blancas."
So, an O0oh Jail for Mother—jail for 1000 years! kinda thing?
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So, an O0oh Jail for Mother—jail for 1000 years! kinda thing?
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
New Gary Larson!
"The Chase"
"The Chase"
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
New Gary Larson!
"The Chase"
"The Chase"