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“Since the wholly unexpected awakening of my blasphemous...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:09:00 -0700

“Since the wholly unexpected awakening of my blasphemous creation, I have confined my scribblings to the realm of melodious birds and frolicking kittens. Indescribable kittens, perhaps. But, they do frolic.”

HP Lovecraft, “Fiction” writer (portrayed by Leeman Kessler)

hp Apology (by quantumcat42)

"Providence, which spurn’d Eddie living, now reveres him dead, and treasures every memory connected..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:43:28 -0700

“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.

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. Published in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:39:52 -0700

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. Published in 1621.

Noga Arikha describes it as “the apogee of Renaissance scholarship – at once the summa of classical learning spliced and rendered in the vernacular for the delight of its early modern audience, and a dense network of embedded quotations, a seemingly infinite set of hyperlinks.”

As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy via The Public Domain Review

from The Times-News - Jan 21, 1965. Hendersonville, NC.

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:46:00 -0700

from The Times-News - Jan 21, 1965. Hendersonville, NC.

Tales of the United Solar Systems Alliance, "New Frontier"

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:49:00 -0700

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."

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:46:10 -0700

“Vodka in a slice is everything nice. All you need is a dame.”

- 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."

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:16:36 -0700

“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

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:43:08 -0700

Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum:

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..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:46:35 -0700

“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!”

- Orville demonstrates a heroic monologue from Saturday Morning Theatre: Adventures of the Thunder Crester #103.

“Kid Cumulonimbus” is such an excellent superhero sidekick name!

A Song of Vice & Ire

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:44:51 -0700

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

"They say that if one is unlucky at cards, it follows that person must therefore be lucky in love. I..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:15:34 -0700

“They say that if one is unlucky at cards, it follows that person must therefore be lucky in love. I take issue with this truism, geared as it seems to be towards consoling a loser rather than mocking him cruelly and taking his last dollar, as is my want.”

- Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective
Black Jack Justice: Some Kinda Lucky

Trixie: It was raining yesterday. Jack: Yes, but yesterday it was just raining water. Trixie: And...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:58:37 -0700

Trixie: It was raining yesterday.

Jack: Yes, but yesterday it was just raining water.

Trixie: And today?

Jack: Human misery or as I like to call it “rent money”.

Jack theorizes that the longer people are cooped up, the more likely they’ll shoot one another.

Black Jack Justice: Justice & the Deluge

Nature-Infrared by DaraDPhotography

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:46:00 -0700

Nature-Infrared by DaraDPhotography

Black Jack Justice: The Do-Nothing Detective

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:20:00 -0700

During a lull in business, Jack teaches Trixie to play chess.

Jack: That’s an excellent move.

Trixie: Thank you.

Jack: Except knights don’t move like that.

Trixie: Says you!

Jack: They don’t move like that!

Trixie: Well, why the blazes not? What good is a knight if he can’t race across the board and kick you into the middle of next week?!

Black Jack Justice: The Do-Nothing Detective from Decoder Ring Theatre

Another great screenshot of Crabby. 2011 April Fool’s...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:56:56 -0700

Another great screenshot of Crabby.

2011 April Fool’s joke for WoW.

Awww, Crabby. You’ll be the death of me! 2011 April...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:53:00 -0700

Awww, Crabby. You’ll be the death of me!

2011 April Fool’s joke for WoW.

Mayor White: This is a matter of intergalactical security. My secretary has gone missing. Dick...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:23:06 -0700

Mayor White: This is a matter of intergalactical security. My secretary has gone missing.

Dick Dynamo: Petunia?! That blonde bombshell. She had legs like a sultry space giraffe.

Mayor White: Mmmmm… space giraffes..

Dick Dynamo, the 5th Dimensional Man. Episode 1: The Organic Nightmare

The name is Dick Dynamo, the 5th Dimensional Man. I’m a cosmic troubleshooter. I hunt down...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:17:00 -0700

The name is Dick Dynamo, the 5th Dimensional Man. I’m a cosmic troubleshooter. I hunt down trouble and I shoot it. In the face. It was a hot muggy Wednesday afternoon. The kind you want to spend inside the office making love to a….. fine Venusian bourbon straight from Neptune.

Dick Dynamo, the 5th Dimensional Man. Episode 1: The Organic Nightmare

Happy Town: In This Home on Ice

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:15:00 -0700

Sheriff Griffin Conroy: I thought that after our talk last week, we had an agreement. What are you still doing in my county?

Merritt Grieves: Oh my goodness. Did you really just utter a version of “this town ain’t big enough for the both of us”? How splendid! A man can go his entire life without hearing a sheriff say those words to him.

Sam Neill as Merritt Grieves in Happy Town: In This Home on Ice.

Wilum H. Pugmire describes his reaction to HP Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space in a Feb...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:55:48 -0700

Wilum H. Pugmire describes his reaction to HP Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space in a Feb 15 2013 interview.

And I couldn’t read Lovecraft’s fiction for a long time after I first read The Colour Out of Space. It just so affected me and tormented me. It tormented my imagination. I just went, “Wow, this is too heavy. This is so sad and tragic and terrifying.” It was terrifying! People say Lovecraft’s fiction isn’t scary. Excuse me girlfriend, YES it is! It’s very potent fiction.