June 2013
9 posts
“They came to me in midnight rain, during an hour of wondrous lunacy. I had read too deeply into the book, had spoken aloud the unmentionable words. For many days, for countless nights, I sat there, within the darkling chamber, the wavering flame of candle casting shadows within my fevered eyes, I watched the awful alphabet with which the words had been secretly formed by the Arab, that mad arcanist.”
—“The Saprophytic Fungi” from the collection, The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams by W.H. Pugmire.
“Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh’s crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.”
—Excellent advice from Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
“The most disturbing images that I found, however, were caught on the three rolls of film that showed my old relation twitching before the unwholesome tree on which he had ended his life. On one spool of celluloid he is shown wrapping the tree’s weird pale vines around his arms and ankles and then pirouetting like some deranged puppet; and it was so disturbing to see how the withered old tree, in the uncanny light of my uncle’s source of illumination, took on the imagined semblance of a gigantic bestial claw that curled its grotesque distended digits in night air.”
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Gathered Dust by Wilum Pugmire.
You Suck At Photoshop →
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I didn’t realize they’d created a third season.
Learn more than you ever wanted about Donnie Hoyle’s personal tragedies via his photoshop tutorials. We’ll start with an image of a vanagon that belongs to his wife’s “friend”.
Let’s just say for hypothetical that you really wanna to do some shit to this vanagon. I mean the real vanagon. But let’s also say that there’s uh… a restraining order that prevents you from getting close enough to do that kinda shit to it. So let’s have photoshop do the dirty work for us.
This is an excellent time to roll low on initiative.
Nut job scientist: It’s not loaded, is it?
Lackey: I don’t know. Try shooting something!
Nut job scientist:
YOU! Ignorant air breathing human!
Demons of the Deep from Crazy Dog Audio Theatre – Diabolic Playhouse
May 2013
10 posts
“Providence, which spurn’d Eddie living, now reveres him dead, and treasures every memory connected with him. The hotel where he stopt, the churchyard where he wander’d, the house and garden where he courted his inamorata, the Athenaeum where he us’d to dream and ramble thro’ the corridors—all are still with us, and as by a miracle absolutely unchang’d even to the least detail.”
—HP Lovecraft on Edgar Allan Poe in a letter to Frank Belknap Long. Feb 1924. Via the Necronomicon Providence newsletter.
from The Times-News - Jan 21, 1965. Hendersonville, NC.
Tales of the United Solar Systems Alliance, "New Frontier"
Cadet Stallwark: I learned that the only way to fight against the system is to be a part of it.
Captain Peeples: Yes, a philosophic outlook, cadet.
Cadet Stallwark: Yeah, if you go inside… that’s where it’s vulnerable— and gut it from there!
Tales of the United Solar Systems Alliance, “New Frontier” from the Thrilling Adventure Hour
“Vodka in a slice is everything nice. All you need is a dame.”
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Catchy slogan of one of QICE’s sponsors, Pizza Booze. From QICE: Radio North featured on Icebox Radio Theater.
“Maybe if you didn’t make your babies so delicious, Dracula wouldn’t have to eat them.”
—Dracula in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum →
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With the help of The Oatmeal and a bunch of people via Indiegogo, the non-profit Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe will be able to purchase Nikola Tesla’s old lab and turn it into a museum.
The tower isn’t there anymore, but there may be tunnels! According to The Oatmeal, “There are rumors of a huge underground resonance chamber, and although I don’t know what an underground resonance chamber is exactly I’m fairly certain it’s both terrifying and awesome.”
What it used to look like:
photo via wikipedia
“Evil, there is nowhere you can hide. There is nowhere you can cower. For I promise until my last breath is taken, I will give every ounce of my being to root you out and squash you like a grape on the supermarket floor of life or I’m not Kid Cumulonimbus, sidekick to the mighty Thundercrester!”
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Orville demonstrates a heroic monologue from Saturday Morning Theatre: Adventures of the Thunder Crester #103.
“Kid Cumulonimbus” is such an excellent superhero sidekick name!
April 2013
13 posts
A Song of Vice & Ire
Against my better judgment, I traveled half the world to be here today. I have battled automatons, outwitted supernatural beasties and suffered the company of Americans to see you!
Little Dickie. Tales of the Extraordinary: A Song of Vice & Ire
