I'm not really familiar with Gogol Bordello's work, but this cover of theirs of “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison that I know from David Lynch's 1986 movie "Blue Velvet" is rather great.

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself." William Blake

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen. ___ (This whole album. Mind you, it's still important, and no, I wasn't nineteen when it was released.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0tQ...

Thanks to having randomly stumbled upon this, today I have also learned the below about Rod Serling of #TwilightZone fame www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...

Earthdawn, the awesome #ttrpg could be described as Fallout meets D&D. Earthdawn used to share its in-game timeline with that of Shadowrun, until licensing made them go their separate ways. It was first published in 1993. Your people survived a magical apocalypse in "dungeons". Now you emerge.

Fuck yeah. Hurry up rest of the planet.

How come this video, this brilliant -- imo strangely Lynchian -- music by Noveller (aka Sarah Lipstate) has only 8 (eight!) likes? :-o www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Vt...

"Shadowrunners in Innsmouth" (or just "Shadowrun in Innsmouth" etc) An as yet afaik nonexistent fan mashup of #callofcthulhu and #shadowrun. (Yeah, the horrors of Earthdawn #ttrpg ported to SR were practically this, though. And yes, this would of course be kinda similar to CthulhuPunk.)

As an aside to the below piece of intriguing folklore, it's mind-blowing, and not in a good way, imo, that the image used in the post is considered "Adult Content". I understand why an algorithm may think so, but even so it is kinda ridiculous. YMMV, of course.

The most common dream in every country. Hungary: The Dead No, I am not surprised. (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social )

Leslie Nielsen would be 100 years old today. Yeah, he was born on 11 February 1926. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_...

In case you missed it, you can still listen to the audiobook version of Ghostwoods Books' "Cthulhu Lives!" cosmic horror anthology, feat. an intro by Leeman Kessler, an afterword by S.T. Joshi, and stories by Tim Dedopulos, Greg Stolze, John Reppion etc. ghostwoodsbooks.bandcamp.com/album/cthulh...

Age verification? Load "$",8 List (via @tamlynrogers.bsky.social)

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Post a banger that is not in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1V2... "Katarsis" by She Past Away No idea what they're singing about (it's in Turkish, they're a Turkish post-punk darkwave band), but if you like Type O Negative, Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy and the like, give this a try.

Wrydlings! Connect with your fellow wyrdlings using our official #WyrdWednesday Starter Pack 👻 go.bsky.app/VbnjwPS

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover. (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social)

Nice. I did something similar as a DM back in the day when I was stil running D&D 5e, only I introduced a group pool of Inspiration available to any member of the PC party, instead of shared HP. But I like this too, maybe even better!

"What’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?" From my current playlist it's "The Black Dog Runs at Night" by Thought Gang (aka David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti) www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6CY... (via @komavary.bsky.social)

David Bowie's "Earthling" album was released today 29 years ago. 👴🏻🤘🏻😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DPo...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: (as if I remembered exact titles, lol…) * Something About Emic & Etic Field Research in Cultural Anthropology * This & That About W. Blake's Works * A Bit of Comparative Religion * Phrasal Syntax * Faeries, Occult, and WB Yeats

Monday

TIL the origin of the Dunning-Kruger effect www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHkR...

A third temp post: My overall bsky experience is rather disappointing, I'm afraid. That's social media these days, yeah. And that's me these days too, yeah.

I unfollowed a bunch of accounts but added a number of them to lists, so that I can check back time to time.

Considering the response (practically nothing) I'm getting from some "mutuals" here, I think it's time to unmutual some accounts. Feel free to do the same. I felt like announcing this because I have no idea why. 🤪

Pondered submitting a #flashfiction piece or a short story, but finally decided to wait for the next submission period. If you have something ready, you still have a few hours to submit to Nightmare, tho. (My eye keeps returning to that flash fic length specification. Zero words!? I love that! :D)

RIP Catherine O'Hara 😢

With #WyrdWednesday being neck deep in strange stuff about headless bodies and bodiless heads… has anyone mentioned Highlander (the classic original from 1986) yet? There can be… more than one post about that excellent movie! (Remember the Queen soundtrack?! 🤘🏻) www.youtube.com/watch?v=omOZ...

What's your sign?

so my brain just notified me that "snowflake" vs "flowsnake" sounds like a nice spoonerism

Two of the more toxic TTRPG fans are 1- The Grognard who belittles any edition, mechanic, or playstyle developed after they finished high school 2- The Newer is Best hipster who insists anything but the latest micro-genre indie game is outdated shit for dinosaurs They're 2 sides of the same asshole

They Live! plot wist remix

Speaks for itself… 🙃 www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

Happy Birthday, Geena Davis! (Yeah I know she's not reading this, obviously. Doesn't matter. :D)

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "This was a Dracula indeed." (Guess the book I quoted, haha.) (via @simonguy.bsky.social )

Reposting this because today it's David Lynch's birthday. (It's kind of Lynchian how close these two dates are.)

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If you want to be a good writer, you have to know a few people (the more influce they have the better) who are willing to say you're a good writer. Maybe give you an award or two to prove it too. (I'm just joking. Right...?) (via @cwreeve.bsky.social )

The Doom Scrolling the past few weeks has been especially grim. So take a brief moment to forget the despair and appreciate the queen.

#DavidLynch has left us a year ago today. RIP. 🙁 I have a tribute to his probably best known work: a short story I wrote for a semi-official fan fic contest that was ran by Welcome to #TwinPeaks. In case you missed it, give it a try—it's free to read over at gaborcsigas.medium.com/johnny-come-...

cultural misanthropologist

Dragon Riddler v0.4 • Demo on Steam now.

The Stranger Things finale should have had Mike and Co. leave the basement as Holly and her friends pull out Second Edition AD&D. The whole series ends with a rage-fueled edition war. Even better, they pull out Shadowrun.

Stumbled upon this shot of mine from 2014. My single frame movie -- possibly titled "The Lighter Side" -- about life and all. Keep looking at it for an hour or so to get the full art film experience. 🙄🤪🤔 (Subtitles: "Nincs ajándék" means "no gift". "Promóció" is just "promotion", yes.)

David Bowie was born on this day And this song of his is from 1997 (yes, you see that right, that's Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, in case you missed it somehow.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3c...

Cover illustration and chapter one illustration for THE GUNSLINGER by Stephen King (Donald M Grant) 4/4 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/gu...