This is just to say that:

I GOT MY QUESTION ANSWERED ON ASK LOVECRAFT

RIGHT HERE: "EmploymentSENPAI NOTICED MEEEEEEEE ( Read more... )

Oh, and speaking of Providence: the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's performing wing, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, is offering a free download of their radio play of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." It'll be free only till the end of August 21, so if you happen to see this post before midnight, and like weird radio theater, jump on board ( Read more... )

"The Old Astronomer to his Pupil," by Sarah Williams. I've only heard the last two lines before; I like them even more in context.

Margaret MacArthur, folklorist, singer, teacher, performer. We didn't know one another very well, but I enjoyed every conversation I had with her in the first years of the aughts. I once had ice cream in Manhattan with her and the Kossoy Sisters and two other friends after a folk festival. Seeing her there, with her lace and flowery old-fashioned ( Read more... )

It has been a long day for a lot of people, I realize, so here is a short scene from Sesame Street where Count Von Count teaches Liam Neeson to count like a vampire. I don't know whether my favorite part is the Count Von Count wearing a beret and discovering his inner diva director, or Liam Neeson trying to keep the monocle on his face ( Read more... )

Via handful_ofdust on Twitter. I found it to be an unusually sad and wistful zombie story.

Most of the time I think the Toast is overrated. Every so often it hits me where I live.

Please go over there and read Mallory Ortberg's "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would In Fact Have Been Among The Witch-BurnersI feel a little bit less embarrassed ( Read more... )

I'm in SFO awaiting my flight out. Made it through security with only the loss of a jar of caramel. I really want to post something while in an airport, like my more worldly friends often do, so while I'm thinking of it:

The Museum of Jurassic Technology was exactly, exactly my sort of thing. rushthatspeaks, rezendi, you were 100% right that I needed to see it and I'm ( Read more... )

News o' the morning: I wake up to find that folks at Salem State think they've identified the site of the executions in the Salem Witch Trials. It's called "Proctor's Ledge."

Also, manatees are no longer an endangered species. Endearing manatee photos at link.

Speaking of Jason Thompson, I just revisited his sketch for "The Outsider," where the protagonist is a mock man. I think this is my favorite illustration I've seen for that story ( Read more... )