QTP with a red-head girl!

With Cthulhu coming, time to re-up this... "True crime podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher of 2019’s “The Lovecraft Investigations” and the newly appointed archivist Jonathan Sims of 2016’s “The Magnus Archives” are among the gold standard creations of contemporary horror podcasting."

Someone comment on this post. Because I don't need the last word.

1. One of the genuinely justifiable reasons Colbert was canceled: it wasn't as virally successful as its rivals. It was beautifully curated in its totality, combining awkward cringe with thoughtful long form interviews (i.e., Christopher Nolan at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.)

Without saying your age, post a favorite film from the year of your birth. This is unfair. The Midnight Cowboy, Butch and Sundance, Captain America and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch. I was born in a year of outlaws.

Here's the plot of 90% of found footage horror. Everyone dies, the last one when they run into some kind of cul-de-sac, the camera is dropped, and it continues to run until something awful stops it. Film ends.

"Diminished feels kin to hopelessness. You feel smaller than you were before, and therefore, you feel unable to reach the things to which you aspire. But writing is hope, and the act of simply writing about my hopelessness has made me feel a bit bigger than I did when I began this musing."

And here is the latest episode...

A few thoughts on the origin of author/adventurer Peter Stark and my podcast "Last Empty Places."

I keep saying this is all a desperate attempt by people whose glory days are the land of high interest rates, stagflation, and malaise to create a temporal fissure and hold us all in stasis.

Sounds like a job for "The Sons of B***ches of Liberty!"

I have tentatively jumped back into writing. Wish me luck.

Here's the nephew. Here's how smart he is: He sees Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay. At the end of the movie, "British school, blonde haired jerk, good guy teacher who is really bad, and a lonely kid with glasses!" "JK Rowling stole from Chris Columbus! What a jerk." He's 9, folks. 9.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

After almost a decade of reporting transportation news and working to provide opportunities for military veterans searching for a purpose driven life, I have made the decision to return to writing full time. I'm doing it, because my nine-year-old nephew told me to do it.

Irwin Allen's A Room With A View

I really want your opinion. After tumultuous weather this coming weekend, the New Orleans area is supposed to be spectacular by Monday. 80 high and 65 low with clear sky. Should bike through the city or hike just outside it? I finally have the time.

Sad #StarWars thought for today. Can you imagine the receptions Obi Wan would have gotten on Alderan and Yavin?

Both sides of my very liberal, very Irish, very Catholic family experienced cognitive dissonance with such simultaneity that a space/time continuum tear occurred.

The very first thing the Russo Brothers want you to do with AI is violate Marilyn Monroe. “Rom com” my ass. We all know what they’re actually talking about. They could have come up with any example, but chose that. Not “you could be Captain America!” First thought is poor MM in AI porn.

I have dropped off the last of the books I am parting with as I continue to scale back my life. The last round of giveaways to the library hurt. But I have read them. And now someone else will.

And here it is for folks who hate TikTok. A little nostalgia for staying up late on Sunday nights.

How I have been screwing around while figuring out what to do with the rest of my life.

1. Reposting one more time. Look to me as a cautionary tale. Before I began full-time time on #trucking #radio, I finished 3 plays in a year and a half. I didn't have time to think, obsess over, or make perfect. All were commissions. They got fixed in dramaturgy, rewrites, and rehearsal.

Get the goddamm thing done!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Odd thought. What if Colin Farrell and Kelly Reilly had been swapped out for Owen Wilson and Ilsa Fisher in True Detective Season 2? And then I thought someone should remake Race With The Devil with the cast of The Wedding Crashers.

It's not time out. It's not time's up. It's past time to go. Just go. Leave. Be gone. The Mar-a-Lago of The Mind awaits.

A Kennedy is blaming immigration for the weakening of the nation's health. For a moment in time, I was friends with the family of Edward Said. Over lunch in New York, his daughter told me the only requirement in being #Irish was a willingness to stand up for the little people of the earth.

These morons realize that cutting interest rates with prices this high is a recipe for Nixonian levels of stagflation... It's like they want to take us back to the 70's... Oh, wait.

The 80's were the AIDS crisis, lives ruined by a crack epidemic, rampant crime caused by lead poisoning, and Reaganomics. But I do miss not having FOX, Newsmax, and right-wing talk radio in every barbershop, gyms, and local pubs. Read news in the morning. Watch in evening. Live your life.

Poor fascist bastards join the church, and their first two popes are a Jesuit and an Augustinian. An intellectual elite followed by a social justice warrior.

Jesus, @juliansimpson.bsky.social. This is the last one I am giving to. And I mean it. (Future historians: he didn't really mean it.)

He who hoots with The Owls at Night asks questions The Eagles never thought of. Or at least schemes with The Court to provide The Riddler a real stumper for The Batman.

I support this effort. #PastaPopo

Had a piece of apple gooey butter cake with ice cream tonight at a restaurant I like very much. They were debuting it this week. They were looking for a name. I gave it. It will officially be known as "The Misery Assassin." Miserable? This cake assassinates misery! Apple gooey butter cake!

This is me having fun with The Magnus Archives, but more importantly, showing how talented my friend @theartofgemmarae.bsky.social is.

Listened to Mythos last night. Caught up with old friends and watch them cross bridges into existing worlds. Since it was technically Easter when I finished, I was able to say, "they are risen!" Well done, @juliansimpson.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social. and @thesounddesigner.bsky.social.

Now that #baseball season has begun. I continue to believe that the #Yankees defeating the #Dodgers 4 to 2 in the World Series is one of the events that can take us out of this dark timeline. That is not an emotional preference. It just seems that we've been wrong ever since the #Cubs won the WS.

I'm quite pleased, in honor of Simon the Mystic from "Lord of the Flies," that we've released our latest episode on Easter Sunday. Being lost isn't just losing your sense of direction on a trail. It is often a profound existential crisis.

I think it's a "flooded zone" issue. There is so much to choose from, it's always evolving, and has the promise of more to come. But taken all together, it becomes a brown noise of, "Oh yeah, that guy sucks." And we move on. He is a "boor." And also the other two spellings.

New Orleans! 3 dudes boiling crawfish while two eat Jambalaya and the third enjoys a smoke!

Is there anything better than the solution hitting you on a brisk walk, the quick trip to the kitchen, or sometimes just pulling something from something else?

Fun fact. I'll be going to the community and swamp where Call of #Cthulhu's second part takes place. #UnholySaturday

Spent my sobriety anniversary in the park listening to The Lovecraft Investigations' "Crowley." Nice to hear Matthew and Kennedy just doing their job. Not sucked into a gaping maw. Well done, @juliansimpson.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social, and @thesounddesigner.bsky.social.

Listened to Lovecraft Investigation's "Crowley" for the second time yesterday. I also included my view in the thread.

He's right. Now, imagine that entire subplot done in the style of #Andor.

Is it just me, or is Train's "Drops of Jupiter" about Jodie Whittaker's Dr. Who?

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Here's the home page for the podcast!