The legal squabbles between Matthew Inman, the Seattle based Web comic better known as The Oatmeal, and Charles Carreon, the attorney for t…See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by
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William F. Nolan's new book about the works of Ray Bradbury. Edited by Joshi, and with an Intro from Jason V Brock and an afterword by Greg Bear.
Today, the hearing – held in a room inside Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside and relayed by video to Manchester Civil Justice Centre – was given details of Brady's daily life inside the secure hospital and features of his bizarre behaviour. The tribunal …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts[...]
The 2012 Bram Stoker Award® winners: Top row (left to right): Mort Castle, L.L. Soares, Jerad Walters, Rocky Wood, Jonathan Maberry. Lower row/middle: Sam Weller, James Chambers, Lucy Snyder, Marge Simon, Robert McCammon, Caitlin R. Kiernan (seated), Charles Day, Lisa Morton (Photo by Stacy Scranton) (Not pictured: Gene O’Neill, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, Joyce[...]
Composed by Edward Elgar between 1898 and ’99, Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra (“Engima”), Op. 36, has long been my favorite piece of classical music. In addition to being beautiful music there is enough mystery packed into the Variations to keep every conspiracy theorist in the house busy for years. The work is[...]
Naturally occurring human genes cannot be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, paving the way for cheaper gene testing for patients. The decision centered on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutated versions of which can dramatically increase an individual’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, was the first to[...]
Here we are, another week, and another episode. Stanley gets some bad news as heads back with Livingstone towards the coast. In part 3 of the Innsmouth story our hero learns some uncomfortable history about the town. Download the show. . http://archive.org/download/CthulhuPodcastEpisode151/CEP151.mp3 Click Here to Read Cthulhu by
By Kenneth Miller The border guards, wary of advancing rebels, fired their guns in the air as three motorized skiffs approached along the Sangha River in the late March night. But the boats’ occupants were unarmed foreigners, fleeing a bloody insurrection that had gripped the Central African Republic (CAR). Among the refugees was elephant researcher[...]
A funded Phd in the UK, which might appeal to some readers here, looking at early and contemporary fan-cultures around … Continue reading » Click Here to Read TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog by David Haden
Smiling comes in two distinct forms: genuine and polite. The genuine kind are those that result from a friend showing you a hilarious new grumpy cat meme. These smiles are spontaneous and indicative of pleasure. Polite smiles, on the other hand, are the ones reserved for the awkward encounters with your coworker at the coffee[...]
Chris Weston’s poster for a notional “Carry On X-Men” has me wanting very badly to inhabit his alternate universe. He says of the film, “Despite the bawdy humour, ‘Carry on X-Men’ is in many ways more faithful to the source material than Bryan Singer’s films. Definitely one of the best of the later ‘Carry On’[...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV9Rh4ynBf4 It’s Father’s Day and time for my annual re-posting of Groucho Marx singing the greatest song dedicated to that occasion of all time. Happy F-day to all the dads out there — especially my own dad and my brother Neil; to Mark and Pesco and Jason, and to your own old man. This morning,[...]
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