Day 4: Howl Commuters on a stalled train are menaced by a werewolf. Zombie film trope of conflicting personalities trapped in a single location adapts well to the werewolf genre. A few narrative surprises elevated this one beyond my expectations. 💀💀💀 out of 5. #31daysofhalloween

Day 3: The Vourdalak Royal French envoy seeks shelter with peasant family whose father might be undead. Daring at times, but its flaws undermine its ambitions. Using a life-sized puppet as the villain is inspired, but only when it works. 💀💀 out of 5. #31daysofhalloween

Day 2: Long Weekend Bickering spouses go on a beach holiday and have a terrible weekend. Slow, menacing Aussie eco/reality horror likely to disappoint those looking for a typical horror film experience. Plenty to steal for a TTRPG though. 💀💀 out of 5. #31daysofhalloween

Day 1: Neither the Sea Nor the Sand Anna’s lover dies during a tryst, but Death can’t keep a good man down. More atmospheric than horrific, with gothic touches and churning winter-swept shores. Won’t keep you up at night, but it has its moments. 💀💀out of five. #31daysofhalloween

Where my fellow crayon-eating psychopaths at?

Tomorrow is the 1st of October which means it’s again time for the nth Annual 31 Days of Halloween movie marathon at Chateau Manly Mike. I watch 31 horror flicks I’ve never seen before and post concise reviews of each before November 1st. Consider yourselves warned.

If you’ve played DCC for longer than 30 seconds, you’ve likely benefited from Purple Sorcerer Games’ website and online tools. Throw some dough to the Sorcerer to say “thanks!”

Saw Omen the Albino Fawn again this morning during the constitutional. They’re getting big! Also encountered a bunch of wild turkeys, who are technically called “a case of Wild Turkeys.” Or at least they should be.

@joeyroyale.bsky.social Have you seen this? www.endlessmode.com/tabletop/wei...

One of my career highlights was being lead writer on this line. If you’ve been on the fence about picking up any of the DCC Lankhmar products, now is the time to do so. Made by people who love Leiber’s work.

Share it loud, share it proud, if you live under the scientifically stupid regime that is currently deciding health policy here in the States. Personally, I've got a COVID and flu shot scheduled for later today and plan on taking some Tylenol for good measure.

I think people forget or never learned in the first place that you can be a fan of something without being a part of the fandom for said thing. If you enjoy a thing, that's enough. You don't need to involve yourself with everyone else who like it too.

Not going to lie: I'll take this sort of product packaging design over the slick kind any day of the week. That's my '70s childhood showing.

Tired of our current sucky dystopia? Why not try the Funnest(tm) one?!!! Tell ‘em Weird Uncle Brendan sent ya!

This was the what the 15 minutes before the trailers at my local movie theater looked like throughout my entire childhood. #oilwheel #vintagecinema

We had Session #0 of my new V:tM 1e chronicle two Sundays ago and are set for the first real game this weekend. In the meantime, I thought more about why Vampire remains important to me and how it inadvertently led to me having my day job.

I mean you might have to endure @brendanlasalle.bsky.social and I too, but we’re mostly harmless.

If you laughed as hard as I did reading this, we could be good friends. Also feel the need to tag @handiworkgames.bsky.social

*cue the theme song from “The Jeffersons”*

I’ll never stop promoting LOTRO as long as it exists. I’m on the Perregrin server these days.

Re-enchantment is resistance.

Dredged up a memory today that back in college you could go complain at the SUB that the cigarette machine ate your money and they’d refund you the $3.50 without any proof to back up your claim. The perfect crime when you were nic-fitting and broke, provided it was done sparingly.

I mentioned a while back that I wrote what I thought was a blog post only for it to turn into a journaling exercise giving myself permission to do something. That something was the old school Vampire game I'm starting this weekend. This is the post/exercise. #vampirethemasquerade #worldofdarkness

Next weekend something that I've not done for over a decade returns and I'm unnaturally excited. In times such as these, it's self-care to seek safe harbor in the places you love the most--even if those places are dark. #vampirethemasquerade1e #classicworldofdarkness #nostalgia #storytelling

"Mike, who's your favorite weird musician most people haven't heard about?" "That'd be Ramases, an HVAC installer who, according to legend, was visited by the Pharaoh Ramesses on a work call and told he was the Pharaoh's reincarnation, and he must take up the Pharaoh's message in a musical career."

Aw, man. Loved him in so many things, but his role in the Maverick film never failed to crack me up. Was happy as hell when he turned up on Reservation Dogs too.

It’s definitely been a bog screaming sort of day.

We meet 'neath the sounding rafter And the walls around are bare; As they shout to our peals of laughter It seems that the dead are there. So stand to your glasses! steady! We drink in our comrades' eyes A cup to the dead already-- Hurrah! for the next that dies.

I can’t believe I slept as long as I did on the “Interview with the Vampire” tv series. Blew through both seasons in a week and DAMN… Jacob Andersen and Sam Reid are phenomenal, and Eric Bogosian brought some Anthony Bourdain energy to the whole production.

To demonstrate my lack of automotive knowledge, I saw a post asking about something found plugged into their car’s ODB port. My brain went, “Your car has an Ol’ Dirty Bastard port?”

Naming a character “Boy Kavalier” is a writing war crime. #alienearth

I had a closer encounter with Omen the Albino Fawn and their sibling this morning while taking the morning constitutional.

I watched both the original Kolchak TV movies over the weekend. I totally get Vincenzo, Kolchak’s long-suffering editor, now. Also, Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland had great chemistry in those two respective roles.

I wrote what I thought was 1200 word blog entry today, but it turned out to be a journaling exercise wherein I gave myself permission to do something I've been hesitant to do. It still may be a stupid idea, but I'm OK with seeing where it goes now.

I'm beginning to question whether we're living in the Willennium after all.

Among the many faults of the world, I'm utterly disappointed nobody has opened a vampire theme park. The name "DRACULAND" is just sitting out there, unused.

I just signed up for a new streaming service that only shows Lovecraft-inspired films. It's called CtHulu.

I’m just going to let myself indulge in this 2/3rd-life crisis. It’s not like our current reality is offering better options.

"Sinners" exceeded all my expectations, as high as they were. Now I want a prequel about the Choctaw hunters pursuing Remmick.

Anyone have any recommendations for a good "occult investigation" game for the PC? I've played Call of Cthulhu, The Sinking City, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. I have Blair Witch, but bounced off of it after a few hours. Looking for something new to scratch that itch.

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of. Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

Best image I have seen today.

Today I woke up at 1:30 AM and couldn’t get back to sleep, got myself riled up in a conversation about AI, and realized the Shudder Mountains are 11 years old. Your boy needs a cookie and a nap.

On 28 July 1967 a legend was born: Leonard Nimoy performed The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins on the TV show "Malibu U". www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJdX... #Tolkien #BookSky

Rewatching “Millennium” after discovering the “Midnight of the Century” RPG. One episode features the word “Gehenna” as a plot point. So, of course with it being 1996, Frank Black’s web search comes up with a World of Darkness neocities’ fan site. Big nostalgia hit right there.

THE TIME LONG FORETOLD HAS COME!!! (Spotted an albino deer while out this morning. Neat to see one in the actual pale flesh.)

See anyone you recognize, @harley-stroh.bsky.social ?

Remember in the Aughts when every genre tv show had its own official magazine? That was weird, but I kinda miss the world where that was possible.

New swag for the Weird Bag. ‘70s kids saw some stuff.

Unfortunately, I won’t be at Gen Con this year, but plenty of others will be. Great chance to get your favorite GG books defaced by their writers and artists.