This is what happens back at home when I travel
The inmates run the asylum (and my Last.fm account, apparently).
The inmates run the asylum (and my Last.fm account, apparently).
Recently this blog (and my Flickr account) turned 20 years old, forever in Internet years. I went back through it all, retracing digital footprints made on what feels like a different planet. Here are some highlights.
How I hauled myself, two teens, an 80 lb dog, and a whole load of crap 4000+ miles across six states in twenty days using an electric vehicle. And survived to tell the tale.
A roughly monthly exploration of places in horror fiction — real or imagined, geographical or psychological — culled from The Heavy Leather Horror Show.
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Stuff I’ve found interesting from around the web lately.
Prefer to listen to this post? This week our journey isn’t about where we’re going, my tireless travel companions, it’s how. I’m a train nerd, not quite what is somewhat derisively called a “foamer” (that is, someone who foams at the mouth at the sight of unique rolling stock) more like a casual trainspotter. My […]
Continue ReadingPrefer to listen to this post? My traveling compatriots, I know it has been a wearying year of sites and topics, but we can’t let up now. We’re gonna get super lost today. Maps won’t work. Itineraries will be an illogical mess. Today we’re gonna talk about non-linear horror in a segment called The Garden […]
Continue ReadingPrefer to listen to this post? There is no more important location in horror fiction than the house. The geometry of surfaces that creates an inside where only outside once was, subject to the decay of time like a human body, able to be loved, often to be feared: the haunted house. Tourists, as I […]
Continue ReadingYou're reading Ascent Stage, by John Tolva.
1) Baby Einstein is tagged as “satanically black bastard death metal from hell”
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