Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Jim Henson and Monstrosity

Liked today's google doodle for Jim Henson's 75th Birthday. It made me start thinking about just how bizarre Sesame Street (let alone The Muppet Show) really was. Also reminded me that I once wrote an alternative muppet piece in a (way) back issue of The Goreletter: if you missed it, check out "Grim Henzen Productions". p.s. The interactive logos are the best. I learned you can make the word 'google' eat itself in today's doodle... I also made the bald man's glasses spin off, but I have no idea how I did that.
September 24, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inInstigation

Dark Promptings: Love Wrestling with Matt Duvall

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…
September 24, 2011Posted inInstigation3 Comments
Posted inBlather

Peter Venkman, Ph.D. — Busted

I spotted this trove of Halloween dolls inside a crane toy at a restaurant the other day and had to take a photo.  That's Peter Venkman (aka Bill Murray) from Ghostbusters, right in the middle.  His sarcastic smile has been flattened by the cartoonery of it all...and this disturbed me a little, so I took a photo. But then I looked over the photo again and realized why it really struck me as so creepy.  It is downright odd for the hero of Ghostbusters to be trapped inside a glass cage, surrounded by monsters and ghosts and skulls... he should…
September 22, 2011Posted inBlather