Isaac Land

The Craft of Historical Research This textbook demystifies the task of historical research and writing for both undergraduates and graduate students with a wide range of engaging examples.

You can get my book, The Craft of Historical Research, for $17.99 (either eBook or paperback) right now. Very much the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out. 🗃️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Gillette wasn’t too sure what to do about the post apocalyptic wasteland, but they were very proud of their final product, the touchless laser razor #horrorwatch

Is he…. gonna read off instructions from his tattoos like the guy in Memento?! #horrorwatch

Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th-16th centuries) Historical and Art Historical Perspectives Petr Balcárek EAST CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, 450-1450 BRILL

Saw this book on my feed and thought it was pizza.

Me in front of the world’s widest tree. Late afternoon sun gives the scene a nice glow. It is composed of many smaller trunks but genetically it is the same individual

Close up of the texture of just some of the trunk

New to #ThickTrunkTuesday but as it happens, I have a contender. Visited the ancient cypress at Tule, Oaxaca two days ago.

I love how that actress read every single line they gave her as either “I am giving this place the WORST Yelp review” or “I was fourth runner up for Miss Iowa and I can’t believe my career has turned out like this” #horrorwatch

I was thinking of a young René Auberjonois #horrorwatch

The monster read somewhere that the beneficial antioxidants are mostly contained in the peel #horrorwatch

It’s a weird vibe, like they are characters in a Thomas Ligotti story and they want to be hurt and killed #horrorwatch

The beige color scheme earlier was preparing us for the sublime purple in these later scenes #horrorwatch

This crew has a Deanna Troi who’s weirdly lacking in people skills #horrorwatch

Actor: “Captain… those were PRE-SETS.”
Director: “No, no. We’ve got to feel the true intensity of that line. Try it again!”
#horrorwatch

The space stewardess didn’t make the announcement to stow the canisters securely under the seat in front of you #horrorwatch

I watched the original Battlestar Galactica TV series when it first aired. They made do with similar props and special effects #horrorwatch

The fantasy film would be called “The Littlest Dragon” and it would be tender and moving #horrorwatch

Immediately struck by the font for the opening credits, more suitable for a fantasy film #horrorwatch

You’ll be missed!

I may have had more hair too 😂

a cartoon drawing of a robot holding a piece of paper on skis ALT: a cartoon drawing of a robot holding a piece of paper on skis

Actual footage of a mad glad moon monster (courtesy of Wallace and Gromit)

A brief defense of cliché A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché.

This is a great short piece. We ought to have more of these conversations when we teach writing (in absolutely any discipline). #composition 🗃️ #amwriting #writing

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If you search for Cesare Lombroso criminal atavism, you’ll get one of the closest matches for Altered States. Idk, maybe some of today’s internet billionaires are on par with Victorian visionaries and madmen. Maybe we should encourage Elon to spend his time in a sensory deprivation tank 😆

I know what you mean about movies that seem like they were concocted in a lab. And not a fun, weird lab, either

I’m intrigued! Looks like I can maybe stream that on Plex

Alas, I’m not sure we found a solution. But you’re welcome to scroll through the replies, they’re all visible here.

It hasn’t aged well, but it had the absolute serene confidence of its own stupidity 😆 Thats a kind of weird integrity, in the end. #horrorwatch

I have a lot of admiration for Ken Russell’s visuals, but the basic error here was assuming that what was really needed was a director with visual flair. I’m fond of Mike Flanagan’s work (like Midnight Mass) and I’d love to see him re-envision this novel and its characters #horrorwatch

The anxiety that we’d unlock the violent ape just under the surface. There was a whole early school of criminology that proposed that this was the underlying problem with murderers, etc. There was even a fear that in cities, humans were regressing and not advancing #horrorwatch

I seem to remember an early Nic Cage movie where he just seems to *believe* he is a vampire and things just go to pieces gradually #horrorwatch

The preoccupation with de-evolution and degeneracy, taking this form, is very late Victorian. #horrorwatch

Would love to see the divorce papers. “My husband has been de-evolving for some time now.” #horrorwatch