Kat Von D is planning her wedding around an H.P. Lovecraft sea creature. Sara Rue looked to the skies for inspiration. Amber Tamblyn turned to nature.www.thedailybeast.com/…/kat-von-d-katy-perry-more-bizarre… Click Here to Read Google Alerts – H. P. Lovecraft by Tweet
Should we track great apes to save them or simply leave them alone? Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Ice Worms, Finnish Lapland, Arctic. Florida Everglades swamps. Tangalooma Wrecks, Australia. Abandoned quarry, New England. Bohol mounds, Philippines. Belem tower, Portugal. (My past postings of other real Lovecraftian places can all be seen here). Click Here to Read TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog by David Haden Tweet
Sorry, fellas: Size does matter, according to science. The size of a human penis is more closely correlated to sexual attractiveness than previous studies indicated, according to findings published online today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new research, which took into account other traits associated with attractiveness, also suggests that female[...]
Baby birds appear to be pretty helpless creatures, cheeping incessantly and stretching their featherless necks out of the nest to get food plopped directly in their mouths. But when hunger strikes and the nest’s cupboards are empty, what’s a baby bird to do? Certain species, like the pied babbler, have figured out a way for[...]
By Julie Sedivy Is the film industry guilty of lowballing the intelligence of its audience? It’s not hard to find bloggers, critics and movie insiders (including actor Colin Firth) who think so. A common criticism is that Hollywood seems to believe that viewers are bereft of any creative thought or imagination, and simply want to[...]
Added to the Open Lovecraft page… * Jesse Norford (2012), “Pagan Death: Lovecraftian horror and the dream of decadence”, IN: Eoghain Hamilton (Ed.), The Gothic: probing the boundaries, Inter-disciplinary Press (Critical Issues Series), 2012. * Stefano Lazzarin (2004), “Horreur, hyperbole et reticence chez Lovecraft”, Belphegor, Vol.3, No.2, April 2004. (In French. Title translates as “Horror,[...]
today's video chat at 6pm EST is with Brian Callahan; Brian and his wife Gwen are behind the HPL Film Fest in May. Plus a Joe Pulver Fund update!www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP6HtD66gU0&feature… Click Here to Read Google Alerts – S. T. Joshi by Tweet
Added to the Open Lovecraft page… * David Ellis Morgan (2003), “Pulp literature: a re-evaluation”. (Ph.D. thesis for Murdoch University in Australia). * Benjamin Noys (2008), “Horror Temporis”, Collapse, Vol.IV: “Concept Horror” (2008), pp.277-285. (Essay on Lovecraft’s conception of time). * Miguel Angel Ardila Rodriguez (2009), “El horror cosmico de H.P. Lovecraft: una corriente estetica[...]
Three new items added to the Open Lovecraft page… * Brendan Robert West (2012), Whisperer: A Study in Adaptation. (M.A. dissertation at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Examines the methodologies of adaption for H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness”) * Joakim Dahlback (2012), Cthulhu vaknar pa vita duken: en jamforande analys av H.P. Lovecraft’s[...]
Amanda Bynes is claiming sexual harassment by the cops who arrested her after she threw a bong out a 36-story window. Bynes claims one of the cops “slapped my vagina” in a rant she tweeted on Saturday. While authorities have no choice but to open an …See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com Click[...]
Dead Authors podcast, in which Nietzsche meets Lovecraft as a dramatised over-the-top comedy interview. Starts at 3:06 minutes. Warning: some distasteful bits. http://traffic.libsyn.com/thedeadauthorspodcast/Appendix_B_-_Friedrich_Nietzsche_and_H.P._Lovecraft.mp3 Click Here to Read TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog by David Haden Tweet
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a criminal court where she was charged …www.theblaze.com/…/hollywood-actress-nearly-unrecognizabl… Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by Tweet
Cassette Is Not Dead refurbs cassette tapes into handsome lamps. They operate on a barter economy — send them 40 homemade mix-tapes and they’ll send you a wallet made from one tape; send them 80 pre-recorded tapes and they’ll send you a box lamp. Alternatively, you can buy the lamps for cash. cassetteisnotdead.com (via Yanko[...]
A new study on plant reproduction finds that developing cells are very affected by altered states of gravity—a finding that has implications for our hopes for a future human society in space. In order for plants to have sex, a pollen grain first lands on a stigma (the female part of a flowering plant.) Following[...]
Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft is one of the most influential horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers of the 20th century. Stephen King cites Lovecraft as being responsible for his fascination with "weird fiction" and the greatest influence on …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – H. P. Lovecraft[...]
Despite being an evolutionary dead end, one ant species rebels against the tyranny of another. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
Chad and Chris travel down to the American southwest to kick it with Juan Romero! Show Notes The Transition of Juan Romero comic strip! Next Week: The White Ship http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_08_13_hppodcraft_ep006.mp3 Click Here to Read The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast by hppodcraft Tweet
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time: Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:[...]
Author: Mark All estselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: sheâ s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly[...]
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