Tim Curry explains why Halloween is great in “The Halloween Song” from the 1986 film adaptation of The Worst Witch.
A shriek-blob-a-boo! bop, a wop-damn-doom
r/VintageObscura is a subreddit for crate diggers. Since Halloween 2014, u/kaptain_carbon has celebrated shocktober by compiling spooky obscurities and campy exotica submitted by fellow redditors into virtual HellPs, most of which are handily located i…
“Ladies And Gentlemen, …”
If you only have room in your life for one Twitter account where an SNL host announces the musical guest,
@CraigWeekend will have Daniel Craig welcome you to the best part of the week.
If you have space for another,
@snlhostsintro will give you a near …
A Game Of Cops And Robots
Have you ever wanted to give your friend or lover a Voight-Kampff test? Then you should probably consider trying Inhuman Conditions (BGG), a free (cards, rules, thematic form) two-player RPG/Quiz in which an interrogator has five minutes to try to det…
It’s the great god bird with its altar call
Matthew Brown at the Associated Press reports that the US Fish & Wildlife Service will declare on Wednesday that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (and 22 other species on the endangered species list) have gone extinct.
Many Amen breaks, and other breaks, and arps, and other 90s things
A two hour DJ set by Four Tet, recorded at the Lost Village Festival on August 28th, 2021. (Rough set list at MixesDB)
“The room doesn’t seem to have an exit, or even a window.”
Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow is a free, online, point-and-click ’90s homage mystery game published by Vice.
It was designed by Anthony Smith, who you might recall from his earlier Google Docs Escape Room
“[A good letter] must be plausible, but it must also be ridiculous”
For Gawker, Bennett Madison writes about being a fabulist: “Help! I Couldn’t Stop Writing Fake Dear Prudence Letters That Got Published”
Writing fake letters to advice columns could not be considered a good career move; after all, it was unpaid and I w…
OverDriven?
Writing for The New Yorker, Daniel A. Gross dives into “the surprisingly big business of library e-books”: (archive.org)
[P]ublishers [mostly] do not sell their e-books or audiobooks to libraries—they sell digital distribution rights to third-party v…
TJ Eckleberg, green light, boats, current, etc. etc.
You can find plenty of free audiobooks at LibriVox (related AskMes),
and Phoebe Judge is still bringing her fine podcasting voice to Phoebe Reads A Mystery, one chapter of a book every day,
and now (hooray!) Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace has jumped o…