Endless Blasphemy
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Fun loving misanthrope and occasional freelance subversive sifting through our collective cultural entrails looking for a good time.
Any SOI adaptation that doesn't go hard on the government raid of Innsmouth (can anyone see the parallels with contemporary events in the US?), is going to be lesser for it. Probably my favorite adaptations include Breccia's and Tanabe's.
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Any SOI adaptation that doesn't go hard on the government raid of Innsmouth (can anyone see the parallels with contemporary events in the US?), is going to be lesser for it. Probably my favorite adaptations include Breccia's and Tanabe's.
I rewatched Stuart Gordon's Dagon last night & continue to think that it's one of the mid-tier Lovecraft adaptations. Most of the changes he made to Shadow Over Innsmouth story did not benefit his film, with the exception of the inclusion of Uxía.We should have gotten a creepy bus ride to Innsmouth!
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I rewatched Stuart Gordon's Dagon last night & continue to think that it's one of the mid-tier Lovecraft adaptations. Most of the changes he made to Shadow Over Innsmouth story did not benefit his film, with the exception of the inclusion of Uxía.We should have gotten a creepy bus ride to Innsmouth!
4 Lovecraftian Horror Movies
September 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
4 Lovecraftian Horror Movies
I love the original Legend of Zelda. No towns, little dialogue, few npcs... a focus on gameplay and scenario over narrative. It's the absolute perfect game.
September 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I love the original Legend of Zelda. No towns, little dialogue, few npcs... a focus on gameplay and scenario over narrative. It's the absolute perfect game.
Ok, Hear Me Out... A Lord of the Rings remake, but with These Two taking the One Ring to Mordor
August 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ok, Hear Me Out... A Lord of the Rings remake, but with These Two taking the One Ring to Mordor
It manifests...
July 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
It manifests...
Targets (1968) is Boris Karloff's Unforgiven (1992). When faced with horror in real life, Karloff's character, a retiring actor, stands up and takes matters into his own hands. Such a great flick.
July 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Targets (1968) is Boris Karloff's Unforgiven (1992). When faced with horror in real life, Karloff's character, a retiring actor, stands up and takes matters into his own hands. Such a great flick.
Sterling Lanier's The Unforsaken Hiero doesn't live up to the first book and was never followed up by an intended third novel. Still, I’m glad to have gotten another glimpse of this post-apocalyptic world. In particular, I enjoyed the ancient snail and the vicious cat people whom Hiero recruited.
July 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sterling Lanier's The Unforsaken Hiero doesn't live up to the first book and was never followed up by an intended third novel. Still, I’m glad to have gotten another glimpse of this post-apocalyptic world. In particular, I enjoyed the ancient snail and the vicious cat people whom Hiero recruited.
Randolph Carter's Dream-Quest by nobody
July 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Randolph Carter's Dream-Quest by nobody
*me and my book project
July 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
*me and my book project
Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey is a perfect blend of fantasy and scifi set in a post-apocalyptic world.The protagonist Hiero has the ability to read and control minds and is on a quest through previously nuked areas of Canada.His companions include a telepathic bear and mutant moose. Good stuff.
June 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey is a perfect blend of fantasy and scifi set in a post-apocalyptic world.The protagonist Hiero has the ability to read and control minds and is on a quest through previously nuked areas of Canada.His companions include a telepathic bear and mutant moose. Good stuff.
Inferno is peak Doctor Who. It's one of the absolute best stories in the show's history.
June 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Inferno is peak Doctor Who. It's one of the absolute best stories in the show's history.
It's awesome that Paul Darrow has such a big role in Doctor Who and the Silurians. There's a few scenes where it's just him and he even gets a pretty intense death scene in the final episode.
June 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's awesome that Paul Darrow has such a big role in Doctor Who and the Silurians. There's a few scenes where it's just him and he even gets a pretty intense death scene in the final episode.
Completing my journey through Isaac Asimov's Baley and Olivaw novels, I immensely enjoyed The Robots of Dawn.Key returning characters, such as Dr. Fastolfe and Gladia, have prominent roles in the story, and the short story Liar! is a significant foil as well as a source of mythology within the text.
May 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Completing my journey through Isaac Asimov's Baley and Olivaw novels, I immensely enjoyed The Robots of Dawn.Key returning characters, such as Dr. Fastolfe and Gladia, have prominent roles in the story, and the short story Liar! is a significant foil as well as a source of mythology within the text.
Totally agree. The Final Wars version of Gigan is pretty cool too....
May 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Totally agree. The Final Wars version of Gigan is pretty cool too....
By the way, there was a 1969 BBC adaptation of this story on Out of the Unknown tv series that unfortunately was wiped like those early Doctor Who episodes. Feel free to cry with me as you look at the existing stills from it.... Those costumes and set look incredible!
May 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
By the way, there was a 1969 BBC adaptation of this story on Out of the Unknown tv series that unfortunately was wiped like those early Doctor Who episodes. Feel free to cry with me as you look at the existing stills from it.... Those costumes and set look incredible!
Reread Asimov's The Naked Sun and ended up enjoying it much more than The Caves of Steel, though there are way too many instances of Jehoshaphat! The minimizing of R. Daneel Olivaw role is questionable, but the story flows much better and the novel is much more coherent than the subsequent entry.
May 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reread Asimov's The Naked Sun and ended up enjoying it much more than The Caves of Steel, though there are way too many instances of Jehoshaphat! The minimizing of R. Daneel Olivaw role is questionable, but the story flows much better and the novel is much more coherent than the subsequent entry.
After reading Asimov's Robot short stories, I decided to revisit Caves of Steel. Though I found it clunky in places and the protagonist Baley to be fairly one note (his defining trait is to constantly say Jehoshaphat), I definitely enjoyed Asimov's more fully realized story based on The Three Laws.
May 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
After reading Asimov's Robot short stories, I decided to revisit Caves of Steel. Though I found it clunky in places and the protagonist Baley to be fairly one note (his defining trait is to constantly say Jehoshaphat), I definitely enjoyed Asimov's more fully realized story based on The Three Laws.
The Damned show at the Bluestone....
May 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Damned show at the Bluestone....
Poverty is often not a focus in horror but in The Auctioneeer Joan Samson details the desperation of a small New England family as they're leveraged by a stranger imposing a series of auctions onto the community. As circumstances deteriorate, they begin to question their ability to survive.
April 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Poverty is often not a focus in horror but in The Auctioneeer Joan Samson details the desperation of a small New England family as they're leveraged by a stranger imposing a series of auctions onto the community. As circumstances deteriorate, they begin to question their ability to survive.