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Vintage Photo Album: Things That Make Me Smile

Snake Charmer

Ah! Being covered with snakes. It can never last long enough. Especially when one or two of them bite. Auction Here (Ends When it Ends)

Magic Wand

Millions of Tinkerbells. Millions of them. Auction Here (Ends 1/3/12)

Spiritualist 1875

That chilling, fleeting feeling of something alien looming up behind you. Auction Here (Already ended, alas)

Inexplicable exchanges. Auction Here (Ends 1/5/12)

Vampiric potted plants on leaning furniture. Auction Here (Ends When it Ends)

Deadly ingenues worrying as they wait for their plot to bear fruit. Auction Here (Ends 1/19/12)

Drowning in vines. Auction Here (Ends When it Ends)

Contemplating the void. Auction Here (Ends 1/2/12)

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Posted January 1, 2012 at 11:11 pm in Photo Album with Tags: , , , , , , . See 0 Comments

Vintage Photo Album: Here is Your Disguise

Golden Ladies 1936

This is your disguise for an adventure on The Planet of the Deadly Golden Amazons. (Auction Here – Ends 12/7)

This is your disguise for your trip to the land of vampiric velvet furniture. (Auction Here – Ends 11/26)

Here is your disguise for the Russian leg of your race around the world in eighty days, circa 1890. (Auction Here – Ends 12/2)

Here is your disguise for infiltrating the warren of the Spoon Brides. Beware! (Auction Here – Ends 12/4)

This is your disguise and only hope for survival on the island of singing bellhops. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is your disguise for living among the polar werebears of Manchuria. Don’t forget to smear your face with seal blubber before disembarking. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is Valeska Suratt. Valeska Suratt! Please examine the furniture and don’t miss the busts and figures in the background. (Auction Here – Ends 12/4)

Posted December 1, 2011 at 7:57 pm in Photo Album with Tags: , , , , , , . See 0 Comments

Propnomicon Gear

Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with the amazing Cthulhu mythos prop site Propnomicon, and if you’re not, now is the perfect day to acquaint yourself. In the past I’ve provided information about Propnomicon’s Kickstarter projects.

Recently, Propnomicon posted photos of a frankly shocking and ghastly parasitic worm specimen in a jar that they are selling on eBay. Click here for the post on Propnomicon. For the curious, more pictures and a short back-story can be seen here on eBay. I clicked the link and discovered that along with the parasitic worm prop they are also selling some of the cool badges and gear from past projects. So if you missed getting in on any of Propnomicon’s Kickstarter projects, it’s not too late to score some gear. My favorites are the Antarctic and Australian expedition patches. This is, by the way, a great way to support sites that are doing this very important work for the benefit of humankind. Check out Propnomicon’s stuff on eBay.

P.S. All photos here are by Propnomicon, who I hope won’t mind my including them here.

Posted November 18, 2011 at 7:23 am in Art and Stuff with Tags: , , , , , , , , . See 0 Comments

F.W. Murnau’s Faust

Just a very fast and dreadfully tardy public service announcement to any readers in Portland, Oregon that tonight at the Hollywood Theater there will be a showing of F.W. Murnau’s classic silent movie Faust (1926). In addition, the film will be accompanied by a live ensemble. Details are here.

“Yes. Yes.” You may say. “But silent films are such a bore.” Let me support you, dear reader, in that statement. Your humble servant has sat through more than a few awful silent films in his unnaturally long span on this planet. I’ve never seen Faust, but I did have the opportunity to see Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) on the big screen long, long ago. I can still remember where I was when I saw it, it made such an impression on me. Let me also add that Faust is rated number 6 greatest horror film of all time on IMDB, just below John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and right above the aforementioned Nosferatu and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).

Here is a chance to see it on a big screen! With a live ensemble! I will be there.

Posted November 18, 2011 at 6:49 am in News with Tags: , , , , . See 0 Comments

Pinup of the Week: 1967 Go Go Dancers

Dear reader,

Today you find your poor servant accursed! Ever since I laid eyes on the subjects of this eBay auction, I have been unable to think of anything else. I close my eyes and see the redhead. No! No! The blonde! But wait: The redhead has such a tantalizingly askew hat and striped socks. And a golden belt with chained loops. But wait! The blonde, she is dancing in rain-slicker-yellow Go Go boots, and that thing she’s doing with her shoulder. Augh! But the redhead, she’s doing the ’60s dance that’s half dog paddle, half “flip the bun”. RRRR RRRRR RRRRR. WROW! Yes. Yes, dear reader. No damsels in distress today, of all days, the Friday before Halloween. Alas, I can’t help myself. It was as if through a fever dream that I watched my hands as they took the original photo from the auction and used GIMP to straighten out the perspective and paint in the missing frame pieces with the clone tool.

A Haiku
Oh sleep calls to me.
Her sweet sleep and Go Go boots.
My poor broken heart.

I hope to recover from this soon.

The originals:

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Posted October 28, 2011 at 7:12 am in Pin-up of the Week with Tags: , , , , . See 0 Comments
The flying monkeys let our technician out for a minute and he snuck away into the light of day. Thanks for your patience during this difficult transition.
I ated Tinkerbell.

Fhtagn Spoken Here.

... the attic, a vast raftered length lighted only by small blinking windows in the gable ends, and filled with a massed wreckage of chests, chairs, and spinning-wheels which infinite years of deposit had shrouded and festooned into monstrous and hellish shapes.
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