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The Chair
The Chair is a 24-minute NSFW short horror film with a strong sense of the uncanny which begins when a man picks up a chair from the street.
Movie: Blackout
A troubled painter deals with small-town corruption and a spate of seeming werewolf attacks in the latest movie from prolific indie horror actor/writer/director Larry Fessenden.
Helen Vendler, 1933 - 2024
Helen Vendler, perhaps the preeminent contemporary American poetry critic, has passed away at 90.
Book: Our Share of Night
Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez's first novel to be translated into English, Our Share of Night, is an epic horror story that traces a dangerous secret society of occultists across several generations from Argentina's 1970s dictatorship to the present day.
Servant: Final Season
M. Night Shyamalan's Apple TV series about grief and creepy baby dolls comes to an end in its fourth season.
Rest in Peace Kevin O'Neill
Comic book illustrator Kevin O'Neill, best known for his work on Marshal Law, 2000 AD, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, has passed away of cancer at 69.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Viewing
In 1979, a wealthy man (Peter Weller) invites a select group of experts to a mysterious viewing at his elaborate compound.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Dreams in the Witch House
Rupert Grint stars as Walter Gilman in this adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Outside
An awkward woman tries a new skin-care routine in order to better fit in with her co-workers.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Autopsy
In the anthology show's third episode, a forensic pathologist is called in to perform autopsies after a mysterious disaster in a coal mine.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Graveyard Rats
A cemetery caretaker with a gruesome side gig must contend with a rodent problem.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Lot 36
In the first episode of Guillermo del Toro's new anthology horror show on Netflix, an unscrupulous man gets more than he bargained for when he buys an abandoned storage unit.
Feria: The Darkest Light: Season One
Two sisters try to untangle their parents' involvement in a tragic event in this Spanish Netflix show, which features Gnostic sex cults, a small town hiding a secret, seeming demonic possession, light body horror, and copious nudity.
Them: Season 1
In the first season of Little Marvin's new Amazon horror anthology show Them, which follows 10 days in the lives of a Black family moving to Compton in 1953 during the course of the Great Migration, the horror arises as much from the racism endured by our protagonists as from the spooky occurrences happening in their new house.
Movie: Synchronic
The best time-travel movie theatrically released in 2020 features Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan as two grizzled New Orleans paramedics who run across a designer drug linked to a series of spooky deaths.
Movie: Sputnik
In 1983, a cosmonaut is involved in an incident in space and crash-lands back to the Soviet Union. A nervy psychiatrist (Oksana Akinshina, Lilya 4-ever) is recruited to help him recover from his amnesia about the incident in this sci-fi horror movie.
Good websites for reviews and criticism of literary horror fiction?
I've long been interested in the horror genre, but there are tons of novels and short stories out there and most of them, in my experience, are terribly written. I'm looking for websites, podcasts, newspaper reviewers, etc that will provide me with recommendations and discussions about horror fiction with an eye towards well-written, interesting stuff that's on the literary side of the spectrum.
Movie: You Should Have Left
Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried rent a spooky Airbnb in this Blumhouse production directed by David Keopp (Stir of Echoes).
Homecoming: Season 2
The podcast turned Amazon streaming show returns for a second season, following directly from the events of season one and featuring many of the same characters.
SMBC to the rescue
The SMBC Covid-19 Book Pack is a series of PDF books by the author of webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (previously). Highlights include Shakespeare's sonnets and the Holy Bible, "abridged beyond the point of usefulness."
Me... Metafilter has spoiler tags now?
What sorcery is this?
Hark! from those shadowy depths thy voice / Mournfully echoes, "AUTH".
Fair is the Lake, and bright the wood,Poems written by the GPT-2 neural network, with copious notes on methodology.
With many a flower-full glamour hung:
Fair are the banks; and soft the flood
With golden laughter of our tongue
Dark: Season 2 (complete)
Netflix's most deeply German show returns for a second season, following directly on the events of last season.
We've really got to get back to writing about Back To The Future
Signs Of A Creepy Government Conspiracy At Standing Rock is a bit of investigative journalism from, er, Cracked, covering various cybersecurity attacks that have been launched against the protest camp at Standing Rock.
Tana French novels (The Trespasser etc) - any interest?
I don't read tons of crime fiction, but I just finished Tana French's new novel The Trespassers and thought it would be fun to talk about it or the previous books, anyone else interested?
Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison
This candid 2011 talk about the history of OpenSolaris fork Illumos doubles as a history of the late Silicon Valley giant Sun, its engineering and corporate culture, its disastrous acquisition by Oracle, and the rise of open source in the 2000's.
Books and/or games?
I'm pretty sure that discussions of books, at least, were in the vague long-term plans for FanFare, and I was just curious if there are any updates on that from the mods.
NYC boat rental recommendations for private birthday party?
My partner is turning 40, and since our plans for a European vacation aren't panning out we're hoping to spend a similar chunk of change on a boat rental for a booze cruise, sailing around New York harbor for several hours. I'm looking for tips and recommendations.
Looking for a Kindle Paperwhite cover that works as a stand in bed
I like to read in bed, and I'd like a recommendation for a Kindle Paperwhite cover that will prop up the Kindle in landscape mode so I can read in bed without holding it up.
The ethics of Prison Architect
Is it possible to create a prison management game without trivializing or misrepresenting the issue of mass incarceration? So begins a critique by Paolo Pedercini, developer of "games addressing issues of social and environmental justice," of Introversion Software's upcoming game Prison Architect, currently in still in development but available as an early access beta. Prison Architect's producer, Mark Morris, and its designer, Chris Delay, respond in a lengthy youtube video.
Help me understand the electronics in my doorbell
I'd like to hook up a small raspberry pi project to my apartment's doorbell. I've taken the case off to take a look at the wiring and it looks pretty simple, but I have some questions about it; apart from some breadboard experiments I'm an complete newbie to electronics.
Monster's Den Chronicles
Monster's Den Chronicles is a turn-based Flash dungeon-crawler RPG with combat mechanics reminiscent of turn-based strategy game stalwart Disciples II.
Broken Angel: architectural outsider art
"Broken Angel isn’t architecture - it’s outsider art." A profile of Arthur Wood, whose lack of formal training did not prevent him from adding six stories of wild additions to the two-story Brooklyn tenement building he bought for $2,000 in 1971.
Good ISP in NYC
I need a recommendation for a good ISP in NYC.
Why they don't trust Devil Mountain Software
ZDNet(!) reports on a strange case of technology journalism malfeasance. It turns out that journalist Randall C. Kennedy has been posing as the CTO of Devil Mountain Software, purveyor of Windows performance data.
What are the least interesting landmarks in NYC?
More or less as a joke, I'm looking for some landmarks in NYC that are well-known to New Yorkers and yet incredibly dull and prosaic.
Tane
Tane. Happy friday!
How can I use my PC's DVD drive from my netbook?
Does software exist which will allow me to use my PC's DVD drive as an external USB drive for my netbook?
What 70's or 80's serial killer movie is this?
Help me identify this 70s / 80s serial killer movie featuring a scene where a barber gives the detective a shave.
Search me. Ezra liked foreign titles.
Des Imagistes is an online version of Ezra Pound's influential 1914 anthology of Imagist poetry, which includes work by Pound, James Joyce, H. D., and William Carlos Williams.
Rapidly-moving short stories?
What are some good short stories in which time passes extremely quickly?
You may ask yourself, how do I work this? David Byrne on robots
David Byrne writes three thoughtful essays on robots, song, and the uncanny valley on the occasion of the creation of a robot which sings in his voice at a Madrid museum: Visiting the robot factory in Texas, regarding the uncanny valley, on machines and souls.
San Francisco exercise/fitness courses?
Where can I find an outdoor fitness course in San Francisco?
Chuck Taylor durability techniques?
What can I do to keep my Chuck Taylors from completely disintegrating within a few months of purchase?
Sitting With Fire
Sitting With Fire is a blog running from Tassajara, one of the oldest Zen monasteries in the US. It provides information on the status of Tassajara's residents who have stayed behind to combat the Basin Complex fire.
"No fixed pushers, and no magnet skateboards."
These "track boards," or "fix push" boards, were initially developed to be raced in the velodrome, and differ from traditional skateboards in one major way: the rider can never coast.
A brief documentary on the increasingly popular fix-push skateboard culture and its roots in San Francisco's Mission district.
Daily photos from the SF Bay Area
So you'd like to see daily photographs taken in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area? You can start with What I'm Seeing and supplement your viewing with the following sites.
TV Pirate Tells All
Christopher Tarnovsky, smartcard programmer, gives a fascinating insider account of his years in the cloak-and-dagger world of satellite TV piracy. Tarnovsky began as a satellite pirate himself before being hired by a DirecTV contractor to develop anti-piracy electronic countermeasures; he was allegedly responsible for the "Black Sunday" attack on DirecTV pirates.
6 Differences
6 Differences is an extremely simple and oddly soothing Flash game with nice background music.
A Friend in Weed Is a Friend Indeed
"Try Legal Weed" is the slogan printed on bottle caps made by Weed, California brewer Mount Shasta Brewing Company's latest microbrewed lager. The ATF has ordered the brewer not to use the caps, as they may "mislead consumers about the characteristics of the alcoholic beverage."
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