Really excellent reading of Fritz Leiber's spooky *The Black Gondolier*, set in Venice *Beach*, and reminding me of the X-Files seasons with black oil. Death Panel: A Death Panel #halloween (10/31/24) Episode webpage: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a-death-panel-halloween-113124 Media file: […]

#blackjoy is beautiful! Fun listening to The Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (from August) Episode webpage: https://www.stitcher.com Media file […]

#blackjoy is beautiful! Fun listening to The Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (from August) Episode webpage: https://www.stitcher.com Media file […]

used the #waybackmachine at work today, to find the download link for an outdated software version that the vendor still had available, but had hidden by removing the links. it's the little things

From Facebook ..... I just learned the professional way to say "I told you so": "This was identified early on as a likely outcome."

#tusky app isn't letting me post my fall foliage or pie pictures tonight, on my Android Samsung phone, updated the other night. Restart and off for 5 minutes then back on didn't fix. 1-3MB photos. Anyone else having similar (500 error) problems?

Episode about a great Vietnam War(and beyod) reporter who paid a high price for her service. B&H Photography Podcast: Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy Episode webpage: https://bhphotopodcast.libsyn.com/pioneering-photojournalist-catherine-leroy Media file […]

One of my favorite things about subtitles is seeing how they describe the music and sound effects, and what they choose to describe. So this starts with some good "(ominous music)". #Monsterdon

anyway have basically the last of the fall foliage, it was pretty #photography #foliage #leaves #autumn #autumnleaves #clouds

"My" crows may be the sweetest crows in town, but I must admit that their neighbors, the "crows by the sea" steal the show as far as pictures go. (it's funny, now, every time I go for a walk by the sea, I see them flying toward me from wherever they were […] [Original post on setouchi.social]

Death Panel podcast episode: New York (Times) War Crimes w/ Members of WAWOG (10/24/24) Episode webpage: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/new-york-war-crimes-w-members-of-wawog-101724 Media file […]

This seems like a good place to re-up an academic job at Georgetown that will be a great opportunity for someone. We've got an open position for a Professor of Computer Science, Ethics, and Society. This will be a senior appointment (with a named chair) in CS, with a joint research appointment […]

#them feels like it could've been the first movie in the Pronoun Horror series, followed by: - They (2002) - It (2017) - Us (2019) #monsterdon

Your friendly neighborhood poll worker would like to remind you: It's against the law in most states to wear items that promote one specific campaign into a polling place. Many states have expanded this to coded language such as "Let's Go Brandon" gear, "Childless cat lady" clothes, etc. We […]

A judge rules that Rudy Giuliani must fork over his luxurious NYC apartment and other valuables to two Georgia election workers he defamed. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-apartment-ruby-freeman-shaye-moss-georgia-election-workers/

woah it's overstock sale day at Dracula City! look at these values! (from https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113401098971715641) #Monsterdon #draculacity

I like this battle-hardened cat on the logo of the FBI's Cyber Action Team (CAT), with a computer tech background: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/842806517742570561/ #caturday

Who you gonna call if you try to vote in person on Tue and face denial, intimidation, misinformation, other problems? To report in English, call or text 866-OUR-VOTE. Have this number ready on a piece of paper or your phone. The same service (different phone numbers) is available in Spanish […]

Rideshare2Vote is proving rides to the polls in GA, TX, and a 17 other states. It's staffed by volunteers and offers wheelchair vans too. https://rideshare2voteaware.org/request-a-ride/ Rides are also available from Lyft and the New Georgia Project (who pays for lyft and Uber rides, I think) […]

I’m delighted to be leading a special #Halloween-themed seminar tonight for undergraduate students on the brilliant “Usher II” by #raybradbury. “Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other […]

Just in time for #halloween, here is my talk for the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville on “Why You Should Read #Frankenstein”! #maryshelley #gothic #horror #sciencefiction https://youtu.be/19gOThR5dZw

#Halloween Countdown, Day 17 Today's text is the short story “The Invisible Girl” (1833) by #MaryShelley. Quote: "Some say it is burnt by witches, some say by smugglers; but this I know, two parties have been to search, and found nothing but the bare […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

New "'Funny,' Not Funny" episode now out: I discuss my favorite #Halloween book and my favorite #RogerZelazny book, #ANightInTheLonesomeOctober, on @jiminfantino and Lionel Cassin's #podcast#anightinthelonesomeoctober#rogerzelazny#halloweenth them and other guest Julia Tenney. Listen & enjoy! […]

This month, I've enjoyed listening to some back episodes of this relaxed* spooky Latin American #podcast hosted by twin sisters. This one from 2021 has a funny bit about #mothman#podcastnear the start, then gets a little more serious. Espooky Tales: El Hombre Polilla (Mothman) Episode webpage […]

This soothing #podcast episode discusses the Rider–Waite–Smith #tarot#podcastdeck, and I'm pleased that it mentions illustrator Pamela Colman Smith by her full name. Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories: Scorpio’s Dreamy Day on Earth Episode webpage: https://getsleepy.com Media file […]

This comparison of extractive data collection (*Data Grab*) to the resource stealing (Land Grab) that primarily drove the evils of *colonialism* makes for a very effective framework. #TechWontSaveUs podcast episode: The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry Episode […]

Dracula city! DRACULA CITY! This weekend only, take advantage of our special liquidation sale! Buy nine Draculas, get the 10th one for just one penny! #draculacity #weselldraculas #andthatsall #Monsterdon #dracula

The dominant narrative is that electric vehicles are heavily subsidised. In fact, it's fossil fuel cars that are still heavily subsidised in key European markets. Removing fossil fuel subsidies also means less spending on electric vehicles to compensate for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A little #silentsunday walk this morning in #connecticut

👍🏼Via #harris WI comms Derrick Honeyman: Breaking: Republican Sen. Rob Cowles of Green Bay, currently the longest-serving member of the #wisconsin State Senate, just announced he is voting for Harris Cowles: “I really think this is one of the most important things I’ve done."

In publishing, the people who work behind the scenes rarely get their due. But on Oct. 1, 2024, at least, one industry pioneer got the limelight. On that day, PBS aired “Judy-Lynn del Rey: The Galaxy Gal,” the first episode of its new documentary series “Renegades,” which highlights […]

Chilling 2023 episode about gendered looks-policing ("you should fix that") and violence against women in South Korea, although at the end of the interview, the author claims it's a fun book and she loves getting facials. This Condé Nast podcast has a lot of cognitive dissonance, glamorizing […]

I've been reading #victorlavalle's horror novel *The Devil In Silver* for October, involving involuntary psychiatric commitment and (maybe) a more traditional monster. Death Panel podcast episodes on the carceral care industry make this even more chilling. This new episode discusses new […]

yeah, now is definitely the time for art critique #Monsterdon #dracula1974

"Have you ever heard of Nosferatu?" "That's the ship from ALIEN, isn't it?" #Monsterdon #dracula1974

at the farmer's market earlier #biking #seattle #northshore #lakeforestpark

🎶 dracula city we sell draculas 🎵! and that's all! 🎶 #Monsterdon

I don't see one of these every day! From my errands this morning, near a small coffee shop. I don't think my photo does it justice. I couldn't figure out the best angle to show its lines off, but it was very pleasant to come across. #classiccars

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

Interesting dive into entanglements and aspects of Iran-Contra that I had not realized in the 1980s. The Lawfare Podcast: Leon Neyfakh on Iran–Contra and Other Scandals Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/lawfare/episodes/60518a63bd84d92f9a7e5688 Media file […]

A spooky, swampy, Southern tale as we approach Hallowe'en! EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast: "Fish Head" by Irvin S. Cobb Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/encryptedpod/episodes/Fish-Head-by-Irvin-S--Cobb-e2p0gvh Media file […]

From Rick Wilson “Don’t drink the poison. In the next 20+ days, you’ll be offered poison many, many times. It will come from the Trump campaign, the mainstream media, fellow Democrats, and friends. The poison, in this case, will be that of electoral despair. The purpose of negative […]

#Halloween Countdown, Day 6 A second #AnnRadcliffe novel read and savored by women working in the 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). Quote: “… I am not so much afraid of faeries, as of ghosts, and they say […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

#Halloween Countdown, Day 11 Some of the Gothic works deemed “horrid” by #JaneAusten in 1818’s Northanger Abbey (“are you sure they are all horrid?”) are available online, so let’s shift this countdown to those dark and delicious novels. (One is The […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

#Halloween Countdown, Day Today’s creepy #Gothic novel, also mentioned as “horrid” in Northanger Abbey, is The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) written by Carl Friedrich Kahlert (under pseudonym) and translated by Peter Teuthold. Quote […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

For the spookiest month of the year, I'm leading a library Zoom discussion on Jane Austen's #NorthangerAbbey at 6:30 pm on October 17. Join us for Gothic novel geeking, gaslighting analysis, and gowns! https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/11142216 I'll also quote from some #gothic#NorthangerAbbeynovels mentioned in […]

“I took Jack his slippers this evening and lay at his feet before a roaring fire while he smoked his pipe, sipped sherry, and read the newspaper. He read aloud everything involving killings, arsons, mutilations, grave robberies, church desecrations, and unusual thefts. It is very pleasant just […]