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Wm. Schumacher

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Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well. Former Teacher. U of I ‘91, WPGU.

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Post image 08.08.2025 02:39 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 3
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a man with a beard is holding a spoon and a bowl of food Alt: A bewhiskered Robert Carlyle eating from a dish (of what appears to be stew) with a spoon, and making a vague gesture of assent - from the film “Ravenous” (1999).

Sorry.

07.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Three words. Spontaneous. Human. Combustion.

07.08.2025 20:45 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I came here just for this answer.

07.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

07.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 9492    🔁 2405    💬 17    📌 25

As a roughly six-year-old in tow, I have a rough memory of my mortified older sister and an older woman with a yellow measuring tape. In my memory, the saleswoman is smoking while measuring, but I’m sure that’s just a mental embellishment. I was wearing a short “romper” with knee socks, FWIW.

07.08.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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VAMPIRE COLLAGE by Max Ernst (1891 – 1976), From 'Une semaine de bonté' a novel and artist's book published in 1934. The #Vampire images are created by cutting up and re-organizing found illustrations from Victorian encyclopedias and novels

06.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

He’s so Dahl - as is so much of Vulgaria!

06.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

adopting the phrase “flawed lobster republic” as official nomenclature

06.08.2025 19:32 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
A goateed figure in a priest’s collar wearing stylish eyeglasses.

A goateed figure in a priest’s collar wearing stylish eyeglasses.

The choice has been made.

06.08.2025 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Amazon.co.jp: ホラー・マニアックス第15期“ハマーホラー・コレクション” 火星人地球大襲撃 -TV吹替音声収録版- [Blu-ray] : ロイ・ウォード・ベイカー, アンドリュー・キア, ジェームズ・ドナルド, バーバラ・シェリー, ジュリアン・グローヴァー: DVD Amazon.co.jp: ホラー・マニアックス第15期“ハマーホラー・コレクション” 火星人地球大襲撃 -TV吹替音声収録版- [Blu-ray] : ロイ・ウォード・ベイカー, アンドリュー・キア, ジェームズ・ドナルド, バーバラ・シェリー, ジュリアン・グローヴァー: DVD

The English translated product description for the Japanese Blu-ray release of Quatermass and the Pit is amazing for all the wrong reasons...
shorturl.at/E6xHO

06.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Hummer Films. Oh dear.

06.08.2025 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The quality of the invasion is rather understated.

06.08.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“No matter where you go…there you are.”

06.08.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to this one! Jen’s always a great speaker and an expert on this topic.

Why not pick up her book, if you haven’t already?

06.08.2025 09:27 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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Lot 109 - A circus slide for performing parrots, Lot 109 - A circus slide for performing parrots,

How did I manage to live this long without knowing this existed?

06.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I know. Believe me. Many of us are our own worst critics, sadly.

06.08.2025 03:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel this. Don’t beat yourself up about it.

06.08.2025 03:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

[me, screaming at students filing out of the room after I've just revealed our "American Literature Survey" class meets on a doomed whaling vessel]

05.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 99    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 0

Oh - like Eel Marsh House.

05.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goodnight

05.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow! Still time to register.

05.08.2025 21:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Levi’s 568 Carpenter Jeans have a higher rise, and are even more casual due to their apparent utility.

05.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
French Bulldog standing on hind legs.

French Bulldog standing on hind legs.

All about proportions.

05.08.2025 20:39 — 👍 35    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Patch pockets vs. set-in pockets. More casual, soft finished fabrics (tweeds. Bolder patterns - like larger-scale houndstooths, windowpane checks, corduroy, linens, etc.)or bolder colors vs. traditional hard-finished solid (typically grey, black, tan, etc.) or pin/chalk striped suiting fabrics?

05.08.2025 20:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why a duck? Why no a’ chicken?

05.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s only Tuesday. Be patient, and you will be rewarded beyond your expectations.

05.08.2025 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Give a man a summary, and he’ll understand for the day. Teach a man to summarize…”

05.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

There is a place for the programme where it is hidden—They have on their webpage a writing which no man knoweth.

05.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Damask wallpaper designed by Edward Gorey as a marketing tie-in to the 1977 Broadway production of “Dracula,” showing white figures riding bats while holding interconnected garlands.

Damask wallpaper designed by Edward Gorey as a marketing tie-in to the 1977 Broadway production of “Dracula,” showing white figures riding bats while holding interconnected garlands.

Reminds me a little of the Edward Gorey “Dracula” wallpaper. www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...

04.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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