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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.
Three words. Spontaneous. Human. Combustion.
07.08.2025 20:45 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I came here just for this answer.
07.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Patient, 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.
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 📌 0VAMPIRE 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 📌 0He’s so Dahl - as is so much of Vulgaria!
06.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0adopting the phrase “flawed lobster republic” as official nomenclature
06.08.2025 19:32 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0A goateed figure in a priest’s collar wearing stylish eyeglasses.
The choice has been made.
06.08.2025 16:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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
Hummer Films. Oh dear.
06.08.2025 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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 📌 0Looking 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?
I know. Believe me. Many of us are our own worst critics, sadly.
06.08.2025 03:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I 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 📌 0Oh - like Eel Marsh House.
05.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Goodnight
05.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Tomorrow! Still time to register.
05.08.2025 21:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Levi’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 📌 0French Bulldog standing on hind legs.
All about proportions.
05.08.2025 20:39 — 👍 35 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Patch 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 📌 0Why a duck? Why no a’ chicken?
05.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’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 📌 1There 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 📌 0Damask 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