Gregory Crosby

Seeing an apocalyptic tidal wave surging toward my location, snapping a pic, posting with the text “am I cooked chat,” and feeling a little endorphin boost when it gets three likes.

Bernie Wrightson

And so to bed.

Great fun to guest on the Decades of Horror: The 1980s podcast again, this time with Tobe Hooper's Spontaneous Combustion (1989). It's Brad Dourif-ic!

So sick of that “mercury in retrograde” nonsense. Don’t the planets ever do anything positive? Like “Venus in hot strut” or something?

No one pronounces the word “evil” like Donald Pleasance.

Not hope nor dread but a secret third thing.

Might be a good week to mute every word except “Halloween.”

Fuck absolutely everyone involved in generating this AI flood that is materially damaging real creative laborers. Here's hoping this work helps win more lawsuits, though. Anything that might help pop the bubble is a delight to me.

Emily Dickinson #smallpoemsunday

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it. www.divasofverse.com/2020/05/my-r...

youtu.be/h7IMcuWx5jM?... Still wonderfully terrifying

And so to bed.

The only consolation is that it’s always very old (and no doubt very tired) artists who have, fortunately, already created the work by which they will be remembered. Still.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Brussel sprouts

One week to Halloween.

Same (a plane to jump from, I mean).

“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes." ~ Margaret Atwood

And so to bed.

This was very interesting; the Andrew Alden Ensemble performed an excellent score. They treated it as if it were a silent film (which in many ways it is).

Wikipedia

“We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.”

What has it come to? Marie Howe

Oh, did Matty Yglesias say something dumb? Was Megyn Kelly mean? Did you see a bad take from Will Stancil? Was Tucker Carlson a hypocrite? I have great news, none of these people are real. They don’t matter. Update your muted words and free yourself of their rusted, brittle shackles.

I just want Trump to go away so we can get back to the regular ways of impossible love and eternal heartbreak.

More than 200 students at SUNY Geneseo recently received a marketing email from an AI company, which has partnered with their university, that set off faculty alarms about academic freedom. The provost said she had not approved or known about the email before it was sent. https://chroni.cl/4dQu8tx

Kaethe Butcher www.kaethebutcher.com

I have descended from “sexy sick” voice into plain old “sick” voice. So it goes.

And so to bed.

Bebe Daniels wonders why Thriftbooks ruins perfectly good dust jackets on old books with their big ugly sticker.

One of my favorite horror films.

RIP Tom Skerritt.

Stop scrolling and have a snack

Listening to my young coworkers talking recently about how the best time to grow up would have been the 1980s was a trip. "There was NO social media! You could just enjoy your life!"

It's so annoying how the old world is dying and the new world can barely manage to get off its ass and struggle to be born.