Daniel Gower

I have that book on a shelf not six feet away from me. Fun stuff.

We know what it is and how it gets defeated. What's the point?

"The Haunting" remake is an obscenity. Everything it could do wrong it did wrong. Remaking a masterpiece is pure arrogance.

A Lovecraftian creature with tentacles and thorns and many eyes, its amorphous mass black in color. A rectangular space inside it contains a poem, which reads: I should not have written this card/But resisting the urge proved too hard/Something wanted to speak through me/A vast dark mind, an eldritch entity/If you read this it's now in your head/Soon you'll start to feel a creeping dread/It will invade your sleep through nightmare/This horror you'll feel compelled to share!

Here is my Halloween card for this year:

A Lovecraftian creature with tentacles and thorns and many eyes, its amorphous mass black in color. A rectangular space inside it contains a poem, which reads: I should not have written this card/But resisting the urge proved too hard/Something wanted to speak through me/A vast dark mind, an eldritch entity/If you read this it's now in your head/Soon you'll start to feel a creeping dread/It will invade your sleep through nightmare/This horror you'll feel compelled to share!

Here is my Halloween card for this year:

Maybe their opinions aren't for you.

But you have to ask, is such a story a pleasure to read?

A woman in a long flowing gown with a friendly pet dragon.

DRAGON POUND

I decided I wanted to take on
The care and feeding of a dragon
To the local pound I went and shopped
Picked out a young drake to adopt

Soon however my temper was seething
It turned out to be fire-breathing
To refuse its return the pound chose
Said to line my house with asbestos

A woman in a long flowing gown with a friendly pet dragon.

DRAGON POUND

I decided I wanted to take on
The care and feeding of a dragon
To the local pound I went and shopped
Picked out a young drake to adopt

Soon however my temper was seething
It turned out to be fire-breathing
To refuse its return the pound chose
Said to line my house with asbestos

They will just teach you to be a bad writer.

A reminder that military personnel are under no obligation to obey un-Constitutional orders. In fact, they can be held responsible for committing such acts. "I was just following orders" is not a defense.

It's a little creepy.

A human figure floating in space surrounded by a swirling pattern of multicolored light.

INFINITAL

A new kind of drug was invented
Its dangers were well-documented
Taking it there's a chance you might
Lose yourself forever in the infinite

Your mind adrift in space endless
Alone in all the cosmic vastness
The one thing you don't want to do
Is have everything become clear to you

A human figure floating in space surrounded by a swirling pattern of multicolored light.

INFINITAL

A new kind of drug was invented
Its dangers were well-documented
Taking it there's a chance you might
Lose yourself forever in the infinite

Your mind adrift in space endless
Alone in all the cosmic vastness
The one thing you don't want to do
Is have everything become clear to you

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

One of the great women of the age.

Scientist and science writer Willy Ley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ley_wi... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, [couldn't identify], John Polgreen and John Polgreen) 4th from his book "Space Travel":

An angry jack-o'-lantern with arms, which are raised in a threatening manner.

WHOM GOURDS DESTROY

It was Dr. Beck's experiment
Carried out without bad intent
To make pumpkins intelligent
Render them capable of movement

Too late he realized his mistake
In his shoes he did quake
The orange monsters him did take
And impaled him upon a stake

An angry jack-o'-lantern with arms, which are raised in a threatening manner.

WHOM GOURDS DESTROY

It was Dr. Beck's experiment
Carried out without bad intent
To make pumpkins intelligent
Render them capable of movement

Too late he realized his mistake
In his shoes he did quake
The orange monsters him did take
And impaled him upon a stake

You said real witches. I assumed you meant the kind that could perform magic.

Part of that is easily answered. There were no witches in Salem because there is no such thing as witches.

I've tried to read that book twice. Just can't get into it.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing outside, facing each other; one is wearing an orange tshirt and one is wearing a green tshirt and a pair of binoculars. The first person says "I heard there's going to be a Red-breasted Nuthatch eruption. Should I be worried?" In panel 2, the second person says "No, it's an irruption - an unusual movement of birds into areas where they aren't usually found. It's great for birders." The first person says "No, I think they said-" In panel 3, both people look alarmed as the ground beneath them begins to rumble. in panel 4, the ground erupts and hundreds of Red-breasted Nuthatches shoot into the sky, lifting the two people into the air.

Irruption.

Thank you 😇 all right go ahead😌

Yeah, I would say your assessment is dead on.

Clancy Brown as the character Sgt. Zim in the movie "Starship Troopers," wearing a gray uniform and looking characteristically gruff.

The movie STARSHIP TROOPERS has some problems, but I really like Clancy Brown's performance as the callous drill sergeant Zim. He plays it very matter-of-factly, which makes it simultaneously hilarious, horrifying, and realistic. The actor fully understood the assignment.

I don't think they believe in evolution. Or any other science.

Why would you use that despicable tyrant and war criminal in an ad? You are trivializing despotism, mass murder, and atrocity.

He's better than Churchill. He doesn't have a history of imperialism and atrocity behind him.