The Magnificent One

First weekend of spring, and someone in my neighborhood STILL has their 12’ high Home Depot Halloween skeleton out on their lawn. 10/10. No notes.

Project Hail Mary is glorious filmmaking that celebrates intelligence, curiosity, patience, and courage. True Sci-Fi with a heart of gold--a xenon.

Thanks!

My story, “Spoils of War,” about guilt, racism, and personally curated films that should not exist—has dropped in the anthology: “Experimental Files: An anthology of tales inspired by Gemma Files' "Experimental Film.” It’s one of the best things I’ve written. a.co/d/a0Cjgkb

Right? The score was incredible.

I remember the emotion of reading Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams” more than story specifics, but damn, does the movie adaptation on Netflix capture those same feelings to the note. It’s a simple but moving, elegiac tone poem.

My thoughts exactly as I watched: how would this disaster of an administration handle a similar scenario? I decided the "well done" option was preferable than experiencing that.

Alien: Earth is off to a killer start. The dread is solid but with a Blade-Runneresque theme underscoring it all. And capping the first two episodes with metal tracks is, well, metal.

When I bought my first CD player in 1987, I had money left over for just one CD, and I chose Ozzy’s live Tribute album to Randy Rhoads. It was the perfect 1st disc, which I still have. Sleep well, Mad Man.

That’s when you do a few laps around the block.

Things can always be worse, so here’s a family of geese I had to slow down for just now.

My novella "Bitter Breed" gets a solid write-up over at horroraddicts.net. Give it a look here: horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/b...

A soulless, vile creep.

Wow!

I saw Wild at Heart for the first time in a film class. Blew my mind.

Same. And he absolutely was a treasure.

As a kid, I couldn't believe the same man that made the impressionistic The Elephant man also made the bombastic Dune. That the same filmmaker could make such vastly varied work. I was quickly hooked. What a loss to art.

HWA members: this is the last day to recommend works for Bram Stoker consideration. If you've read & liked my novella BITTER BREED (Long Fiction), or my short stories TITHING (Frontiers of Fright) and SHADOW KIDS (Writer’s Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness), give them a kind nod. Many thanks!

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75-year-old mahogany that comprised the bar-top & backsplash of a mansion's parlor, saved from the dumpster! Now to strip it, and then, what to build with it?

Seriously!

AKA Four dudes telling us they have zero creative talent without saying they have zero creative talent.

THIS right here.

I love Hysteria, but it’s Pyromania for me.

You're doing great!

I read her "Age of American Unreason," and loved it. I'll have to pick this up.

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Neither do I! I hope it’s OK to piggyback on this thread.