OOH CRIKEY YA GAVE ME A SMASH ON THE NOGGIN LAST YEAR

The Lexington Leader Lexington Kentucky Tuesday,November 18,1919

Ho ho ho

Why

Saw this meme's still doing the rounds, decided to fix it

Out today! And I'm in it too...

14 Nov 2025

Of all the wonderful creations of Paula Rego I saw this morning at Norwich Castle, this masterpiece has really stayed with me. Her ability to find inspiration in nursery rhymes - here, “Hey Diddle Diddle” - just amazes me.

lmao

Does anyone have a solidly-referenced resource on the NaNoWriMo forum grooming scandal from a couple of years back? Asking because it's come to my attention that the accused moderator may have been the same person who ran an anime forum I posted at when I was 13.

Beano #1679, September 21, 1974

People keep trotting out that CS Lewis quotation when they could just post this

Here's an absolutely deranged marketing campaign for the 1949 rerelease of The Wizard of Oz

GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.

My latest Splatterpunk Awards review is now up: dorisvsutherland.com/2025/11/11/d...

Wooooooww my feed's basically all James Bond now. I thought I was reading a single, very long Bond thread, but no, it's my feed.

Whaaaaaaa?

Watching an episode of a 1940s Superman serial, which begins with the amazing line "Lois is captured by the Spider Lady Men"

Back in 2003, Coca-Cola hired Aleksandr Petrov, one of the most accomplished animators alive, to make a Christmas advert using oil paints. Just saying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5r8...

More than once, I've stumbled into a transphobe who seems to have sincerely expected us, and our allies, to all fade away over the course of 2025. It warms the cockles of my heart to see them spluttering "b-b-but Trump 2! But UK Supreme Court! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?!?"

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

All of them tbh

This remains the greatest comment my blog has ever received.

On this week's #WerewolfWednesday, I'm meeting the werewolves of Preston! (Which turn out to be the result of a Facebook joke getting into national news) dorisvsutherland.com/2025/11/05/w...

Go me, I suppose I scored 100% on Have I Got Phobia For You. Test yourself here www.higpfy.co.uk

"My kids... ... ... know me as this ape."

the information crisis: as 'information about what's going on' has become essentially free, previously somewhat sober newspapers now sell themselves increasingly as penny dreadfuls filled with the thrills and spills of terror, drama and salacious details of crimes.

I'd be genuinely interested to see hard stats on how many people *say* they'll leave their city/state/country if a contentious candidate comes to power, vs how many people actually do it.

I see that the BBC Archive YouTube channel sneaked this out a couple of days ago:

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh. These illustrations are from “Machinalia.” #historyofillustration

He's stickin' it to the man

#31daysofhorror day 31 Read Mai Doon Izahn by Gary A. Braunbeck Watched Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)

From the 1924 Bogie Book

#31daysofhorror day 30 Read Our Bones Shall Rise Again by Nuzo Onoh Watched The Signalman (1976)

You know that Halloween game, where you pass around food that's meant to be various body parts from a murder victim or a dead witch? The one that has a bunch of names, like "Withered Corpse" and "Dead Man's Game?" I was curious enough to dig into its history: dorisvsutherland.com/2025/10/30/t...

Emma Bernard, 35, left the house in what she thought was normal seasonal attire, but everyone she has encountered so far has praised her on the accuracy of her costume – which is believed to be an homage to either Jay or Silent Bob.

To put it simply: A good script is a script to which Robert Redford will commit himself. A bad script is a script which Redford has turned down. A script that “needs work” is a script about which Redford has yet to make up his mind. (1980)

#31daysofhorror day 29 Watched I Walked with a Zombie Read The Pig-Men's Mud Motel by Patrick Barb

This week's #WerewolfWednesday: horniness! Hippies! Malaysian werecrocodiles! Evopsych! It's all here. dorisvsutherland.com/2025/10/29/w...

He deserves better.

Ooohhh wooohh blimey

"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded" Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍 #zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart

#31daysofhorror day 28 Watched War of the Worlds (1953) Read Dead Lions by Richard Christian Matheson

On my blog, I've got another post in my monthly essay series examining Alice in Wonderland remixes. This time I'm looking at After Alice, and finding out that Gregory Maguire's take on Wonderland is very different to his take on Oz... dorisvsutherland.com/2025/10/28/a...

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RIP. He was also a huge influence on early shojo and shonen ai manga, including Ryoko Ikeda, who modeled Oscar in Rose of Versailles after him

#31daysofhorror day 27 Watched Wendell and Wild Read The Four Magi of Motakwa County by Max D. Stanton