Wm. Schumacher

Amanda Donohoe, in a scene from “Lair of the White Worm,” wearing an ivory and grey ensemble topped with a white tricorn hat.

But - the white tricorn ensemble is perfection itself!

Perfect thread in the run-up to Halloween!

[GIF of figure crumbling to dust]

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Kneale!

Aimee Mann? Randy Newman?

Thís is Eglantine Price Eglantine learned Witchcraft to figbt tbe Nazis Be Líke Eglantine. Hex the Fascists. Image from Bedknobs and broomsticks

Title image that reads “Quatermass.”

Title that reads “The Pit.” Over it is the scrolling title “A serial in six parts by Nigel Kneale.”

Closing credit card which reads “QUATERMASS AND THE PIT Episode 3 ‘Imps and Demons’ will be televised next Monday, 5th January at 8 p.m.”

Currently watching the 1958 BBC production of “Quatermass and The Pit.” For Americans with Roku, it’s streaming on the “Horror Classics Channel,” an off-brand App in the Roku streaming store. Free with ads.

Anthropomorphic box in a bin (looking surprised).

Ugh. It’s been a day. A day in a week in a year. Goodnight!

No, they’d end up lopsided.

Doves Type, recreated from printed examples and from over 100 pieces of original type mudlarked from the Thames.

Oh, you’re re-consigning the Doves Typeface to the Thames again?

That’s a beefy stitch there.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

She hath risen.

Pictures, obvs.

Young Buster Keaton in 1910, showing his trademark lean to one side.

Buster Keaton, in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” once again leaning to one side.

For me, it’s the trademark lean. Here (from 1910) through his cameo in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”

Book cover reading “Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report 2015 to 2019 Volume 1”

In prehistoric times, there were cave paintings of pre-teens with bad haircuts. Parents hold on to such embarrassing photos of their children and pull them out at appropriate times because, well…it’s our duty; it’s part of the job and the brief, passed down from time immemorial.

Now hosed in the collection of the Victorian and Albert museum in London, a skeleton-decorated kimono c.1840-1860.
#kimono #Japanesefashion #Japaneseclothes #Jhorror #Japanesesupernatural

Fabulous!

I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew.

Ferlinghetti: “Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves”

a man in a blue and white striped shirt is driving a car next to a woman in a blue shirt Alt: a man in a blue and white striped shirt is driving a car next to a woman in a blue shirt

(Heh heh. So many memories.)

Text of “Roses are red/florists deliver” over a film still of two men reading a poster that says “It is forbidden to dump bodies into the river” (from the 1964 Doctor Who serial, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth").

Reminder to register for the social and intellectual highlight of the year!

I am working to remedy this with my “Key to all Fish.” I’ve made it my life’s work, but am currently only on Haddock.

Elderly man wearing “UNRELIABLE NARRATOR” tee-shirt.

“Very few tee shirts have ever given me joy. In fact, I can’t recall a single one that has.”

(I’m in very liberal, blue, Democratic Illinois; it’s the conservative politicians elsewhere gumming everything up!)

Damn. I’m in the “undeliverable” tariff zone, apparently. Chicago.

Whew. Missed the sarcasm. Thanks for the pamphlet rec.