I tried to listen to music
Sometimes online, I stumble upon posts of people born before music streaming was a thing and they explain how listening to new music back then was an experience. They would go to the shop, buy a CD…
Stay Frosty Remastered (2025)
Over-the-top, videogame-style survival horror for your theater of the mind. The post Stay Frosty Remastered (2025) appeared first on Vintage RPG.
Star Trek: Return to the Taurus Reach: Vanguard: Declassfied
After the side-step of Harm's Way , my journey through Star Trek: Vanguard finally reaches the last three volumes of the series which I (kind of) bought as they came out, but never got around to…
Cool alternative character or cool alternative timeline?
As a die-hard Doctor Who fan I suffered through the recent, dismal Disney + series that wasted the charm of Ncuti Gatwa as the first Doctor of color. I also read … The post Cool alternative…
Act One: A Century in the Making
Eric Pickersgill is in the book Act One: A Century in the Making, with an exhibition opening October 22 in Queens and a panel and book signing October 23 in Brooklyn.
#TBR Challenge – The Hunt: All-New Wolverine Vol. 1: The Four Sisters
All-New Wolverine Vol. 1: The Four Sisters by Tom Taylor, David Lopez, and David Navarrot collects the first six issues of this comic about X-23/Laura Kinney, who was cloned from Logan/Wolverine of…
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"He told me that we could / I want to I said and will we / he promised me that we would." Merwin Before the Flood
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WTF is for Whacky Tall Fellows!
These came from Peter Evans a couple of weeks ago, and are, well, whacky tall fellows . . . or fellowesses? I mean WT-very-actual-F? Clearly the Hong Kong 'old guard' in China, jumping on the Skibidy…
SSMMÜT Premiere “An Dullahan”; A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death Out Oct. 30
The sonically amorphous project spearheaded by now-Berlin-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Mirolo, SMMÜTT is set to release A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death on Oct. 30 through…
Streaming: crítica de ‘Hasta siempre, hijo mío’ (‘So Long, My Son’), de Wang Xiaoshuai (MUBI)
Este poderoso drama familiar chino que abarca medio siglo de historia de ese país es un doloroso y efectivo retrato de una pareja que atraviesa una larga serie de tragedias. En MUBI, a partir del 27…
Horror delight
The evening light has changed. After work, it shines an amber glow across spindly seedheads. Shadows stretch. Coppery leaves fall slowly to the ground. At the beginning of October, our son announced…
New Dickens exhibition looks at the smells and poverty of old London
A foul and putrid air is once again abroad in London, as the stench of cholera and death that once haunted its streets seeps into the Charles Dickens Museum.Read more ›
Chris's Moon Cat: It's Purr-fect! -
Woodsy, Here's the first thing: An original Park Moon Cat in perfect shape with box. A beloved toy from childhood. Chris W. <div style="text-align: center
Wednesday Comics: DC, January 1986 (week 4)
I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on October 24, 1985. World's Finest #323: Metropolis is engulfed in perpetual…
Gyne
A dark cabaret Gyne contains fourteen dark collages consisting of electronic, digital and acoustic ambiances which present the rise and downfall of... some undisclosed entity. Contrary to the…
Freak Valley 2027 Adds Altin Gün, Vinnum Sabbathi, Bong Voyage & More
Before this second full announcement went out, Freak Valley 2027 added Brutus as a headliner, which makes Altın Gün the second revealed lineup-topper for the three-day event. One more to go. I…
The CBS Eyemark Celebrates its 75th Birthday
On Oct. 20, 1951, television viewers saw a symbol for the first time. After seventy-five years, it's one of the world's most familiar logos. The post The CBS Eyemark Celebrates its 75th Birthday…
Did Men’s Trousers in the Regency Era Have a Waistband? + the Upcoming Release of “Lady Christiana and the Colonel,” Arriving 18 November 2026
I know this is probably a crazy idea for a post, but before I wrote the scene I needed to know if men’s trousers in the Regency era had a waistband. So here goes… Yes, men’s trousers in…
The Stone Roses: Waterfall
"Ian Brown said in an interview that this is about a girl whose fed up with everything, drops an acid and goes to Dover. What would Vera Lynn make of that?"
Recommended for Halloween
An absolute classic, of course. Obviously, anime don’t look like this nowadays, but you’ll be able to find similar plots, characters and themes easily. However, what I want to mention…
House of Horrors
Can a vampire also be a ghost? One of the great questions of our time. For my money, CE Ward’s “House of Wonders” answers it pretty well. I came late to CE Ward’s work,…
A Helen Adam Reader: The Scottish Ballad in Beat San Francisco
Helen Adam wrote rhymed Scottish ballads in the middle of the San Francisco Renaissance. A Helen Adam Reader is the 2007 collection that recovered her.
Green Lantern and Iron Man in: "Snow Bound!"
The Lanterns series ended with a thud. Some spoilers follow: Hal is still dead and the secret to his murder was unsatisfying and insulting to the character - not to mention his killer faced no…
Fragments of a disordered devotion (Preview)
Gwen John, St Thérèse of Liseux and her Sister. Photograph from Wikimedia . Following an essay on the MusikFest Berlin performance of Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre , a report-essay on the world…
The History Of "We Ready" Motivational Sports Song & Protest Marches Song (information & videos)
Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post presents the history of the motivational (hype) sports song "We Ready". That song has also been adopted as a motivational song for some protest marches in…
A-Yokai-A-Day: The Fox Who Sought Out a Surgeon and Repaid His Kindness
Readers will be happy to know that tonight’s kitsune tale is a heartwarming one, not a sad one like the previous animal stories we had. The story refers to a man named so-and-so and a place…
Fairy Tale – The Three Little Pigs
The fourth little pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message. From a Cartoon Depending on the [...]
Some Woman
Text of the day: “I might have put up with it years and years ago but I’m not putting up with it now.” The post Some Woman appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
A to Z topics & themes in North Woods by Daniel Mason
The story is mainly about North Woods and not just the humans who lived in it. Generations of humans used[...]
Universal Behaviour Profile
I did this for hexes and planets , but what if I want to use this same system for giving an NPC some specific behaviour notes? Forget how they look, how do I give this NPC some life without doing a…
EMERGING ARTIST: BRAZN Takes on Their Inner Demons with Electrifying Electro-Pop Anthem “My Final Boss”
Electro-pop addicts, your next discovery has entered the chat! ⚡ BRAZN's “My Final Boss” brings big beats and bigger feelings. The post EMERGING ARTIST: BRAZN Takes on Their Inner Demons with…
A Pair From the 50s
Here are two random 1950s photos for ya (I saved .02 seconds typing "ya" instead of "you"). Somebody stuck some Skyway gondolas up above the Pirate Ship, but you know what? It works. If we all had…
Santa Fe 1983, 1984, & 1985 Pocket Calendars
The pocket calendar of Thomas Moran’s Grand Canyon of Arizona painting is just as heavily cropped as the wall calendar. The pocket version includes more of the right side of the painting than…
2026 Reader Question 58
I’ve decided that cactus cats and splitercats are related to each other, why not.
Beethoven's Razumovsky Quartets from Quatuor Elmire
The Quatuor Elmire was part of the String Quartet finals at Geneva a few years back (see here); currently in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and the Chapelle Musicale, Reine Elisabeth…
Rewilding Novel Book Review
  This prize-winning sci-fi novel about wolf rewilding made me cry When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift somehow delivers both a determined call for more wildernesses globally – and a great…
Grasslands Cover Reveal
My new ranching novel Grasslands, coming in April 2027, has all the elements that my readers love: a strong female protagonist who encounters adventure and romance on the Canadian prairie. But this…
In Dreams I Walk With You / Wakusei Closet, volume 2 By Tsubana
Wakusei Closet, Volume 2 is the second tankōbon of Tsubana’s science-fantasy-horror manga, about which online information still appears to be scarce. Aimi has no idea why when she…
New EP: The Daniel James Gang || Ghosts Of The Past A little dirt, a little glitter, a whole lot of rock 'n' roll
The Daniel James Gang is Daniel James’ garage power pop songwriting soaked in rock ‘n’ roll romanticism and glittered with glam swagger. Here, the gang consists of Daniel James…
New album: The Lotts || Get Obsessed Greg Cartwright-produced debut LP is everything you could ask for
British rock ‘n’ roll quartet The Lotts have been shaking up stages for about eight years now (we previously wrote about 2022’s Ice Cold EP), so we’ve had quite a long wait for this…
The Mar-J's - 'Got to Find a Way'
You need something soulful that'll make you do the funky chicken? You got it.
Rebellion Releases — 21 October 2026
The first UK screening of Rogue Trooper took place at the British Film Institute (BFI) as part of the BFI London Film Festival, bringing together an incredible mix of cast, creatives and die-hard…
Fortuitously #10
1979 was the year I got into buying and studying fanzines. That had a lot to do with Maximum Speed , the main mod publication, which that year was particularly high-profile and prolific. I recall a…
Hercules - The Armor Of The Gods!
Hercules #13 is the last original issue of the run from Charlton. The comic is dated September 1969. The cover is by Sam Glanzman, the guy who has done all the covers for the series. The comic is…
Diving Deeper Into Using Neulow Games Supplement Gothic Chillers with The Amazing Adventures role playing game By Jason Vey
Integrating NUELOW Games' gothic and horror resources—such as their system-agnostic line of classic comic adaptations like Gothic Chillers—into Jason Vey’s Amazing Adventures (Troll Lord Games)…
Jeffrey Silverstein
Sitting easy at current country crossroads, Jeffrey Silverstein slips through the best shades of ambient country’s rising wave and the rippled revue of Cosmic Americana. An unflappable traveler of…
The Red Angel
(21 Mar 2019) – Season 2 Episode 10 (Serial 210)
Critters v. Nasty Mages
A spooky one for the spooky season, Through Familiar Eyes is in pre-launch over on Backerkit. It's a kind of fairytale horror piece, self-contained with pregens with their own tiny tiny system. It's…