...they seemed to have a glee for somehow stitching a laugh to darkness.
I think we are all aware of the meme of Die Hard as a Christmas film. The arbiters of coolness decided there was something a bit cringe about the people who claimed it as their favorite holiday film. Like, Hey, forget It s a Wonderful Life normies, I m the freaky sort of dude who thinks Die [ ]
So, did everyone s great-grandmother keep scrapbooks where she pasted clippings from news stories about all the military personnel from her general area? Or was it just mine? My maternal grandfather s mother spent untold hours of her life pasting newspaper clippings about military members into these now-crumbling scrapbooks. I am unsure how many of these she [ ]
Book: Sinful Cinema Series 7: The Stendhal Syndrome (say this five times in a row as fast as you can) Author: Doug Brunell Type of Book: Non-fiction, film criticism Why Do I Consider This Book Odd: Well, it s not that odd, strictly speaking, but discussing Doug Brunell s Sinful Cinema series has become as close to [ ]
Told you I would revisit Catsploitation if I could. After discussing the first Catsploitation during ‘Zine September, I was eager to get my hands on more of these ‘zines for Oddtober but was worried I wouldn’t get them in time. Bast smiled upon me, and here it is, a look at Catsploitation Zine Part 3: [ ]
Rotary phones. This whole entry came about because of the black rotary phone on Laurie s chest of drawers in John Carpenter s Halloween. Lately I ve found myself focusing on phones in older horror movies. The black rotary phone in Black Christmas that delivers deranged phone calls from a psycho killer to the helpless sorority girls. The [ ]
ETA: Last night, after completing this entry, I had a fourth black shuck. I m reading a short story collection called Dark Blood Comes From the Feet by Emma J. Gibbon. One of the stories is called The Black Shuck. To paraphrase James Bond, Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Third time is enemy action. The [ ]
This is a repeat of an older entry that I ran during Oddtober 2017. It s one of my favorite creepy Austin locations, and reading back over it makes me realize it s been entirely too long since I took off on a weird places jaunt. Enjoy! Ben Thompson doesn’t have the level of posthumous fame as [ ]
I ve dwelt in the true crime cave for far too long, though it seems I will never grow out of my fascination with the worst people can do and those willing to do it. Over the last ten years, I ll go a good while without falling down a true crime rabbit hole and it takes [ ]
What do you know? Another APac mini zine is shaping another OTC entry. I ve over-relied on these little zines because my will to write came back so late in the game that I had very little time to create any sort of theme for Oddtober. I didn t even have enough time to just read some [ ]
I really want to know and I am being completely serious here, this is not a rhetorical question do you know anyone whose faith was changed or otherwise influenced by unsolicited religious cartoons? Because it s hard for me to fill in the dots between this interesting piece of mail we got during the [ ]