Oct
29
2021
We love Halloween in our house, and we like to decorate for the holiday. Not as crazy as some, but we do enjoy it with some faux gravestones, some jack-o-lanterns, skeletons.
But this silly haunted pirate is by far, our...
Oct
28
2021
H.P. Lovecraft is arguably the father of the cosmic horror genre, and nothing sums it up better that his poetic cycle Fungai from Yoggoth. You can read a complete series of poems here.
For my money the best way to...
Oct
27
2021
In addition to graphic design and movies, another one of my passions is history. In particular I am very interested in the history of my city, Seattle. In the spirit of Halloween here's some pictures of the grave stones...
Oct
26
2021
This is singularly the greatest reading of Poe's classic gothic poem The Raven. Christopher Walken and Poe? It can't really get better than that!
Oct
25
2021
I'll be honest, Ghoulies is bad. Really bad, so bad it borders on good. I guess I'm just a sucker for bad monster and alien movies, and this is one of my guilty pleasures. Not that I feel much...
Oct
24
2021
Similar to yesterday's post about TSR's They've Invaded Pleasantville, another game in the same genre included Cinemaware's It Came from the Desert (1989). It is more or less a pastiche of the classic 1954 film THEM! In the...
Oct
23
2021
I am a total sucker for 1950s sci-fi alien invasion, giant monsters, and their ilk. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Them!, and The Incredible Shrinking Man are all classics. When I was in middle school the game company TSR...
Oct
22
2021
Every Halloween I feel compelled to enter the big top spaceship to rewatch one of the greatest alien invasion movies there is, Killer Klowns From Outer Space. I love this movie so much. Utterly ridiculous and wonderful.
