Posted inWeird Sites of the Month

Happy New Year! Here’s a Snippet of the Weirdest of 2012

You already know 2012 was pretty weird. Here's a small sampler of annual roundups that reaffirm it... Weirdest Fast Food of 2012 Weirdest Science of 2012 Weirdest Baby Names of 2012 Weirdest Fashion of 2012 Weirdest Fake Stories of 2012 Weirdest New Species of 2012 Weirdest Book Titles of the Year Weirdest Apocalyptic Disaster Predictions of 2012
December 31, 2012Posted inWeird Sites of the Month1 Comment
Posted inInstigation

Twisted Prompts for Sicko Writers (31)

Begin with a Woman... + Begin with a woman...defiantly shaking a phantom (or prosthetic) arm at the heavens. + Begin with a woman...requesting plastic surgery to make her something LESS (beautiful, endowed, perfect, etc). + Begin with a woman...who reads more than she should into her 'time of the month.' + Begin with a woman...discovering something alive in the meat drawer. + Begin with a woman...in love with a man BECAUSE he survived her murder attempt. + Begin with a woman...applying mascara to a corpse. + Begin with a woman...alienated by the newborn creature in her arms. + Begin with…
December 30, 2012Posted inInstigation
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

They Stop Cthulu (sic) Eating Ye

Here's a goofy Saturday morning cartoon about "Narwhals" to get your spirits up for New Years. Sure, it's more PG than my usual choices, but its creator, Mr Weebl references Lovecraftian Horror and that deserves respect. Chances are good you've already seen it -- it only has about 30 million views on youtube. The song will stick in your head. In fact, it just might impale itself there. You should check out the beautiful National Geographic photogallery of Hunting Narwhals to see the real things.
December 29, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inData+Errata

Congratulations to the Microhorror Contest Winners

If my book, 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, left you hungry for more and more sick flash fiction, then you might want to check out microhorror.com, to get your quick fix of terror. A few weeks ago I guest-judged (along with Nathan Rosen and Oonah Joslin) a writing contest they held on the site for short-short horror stories related to the common theme of "art." It generated a huge response, and I read a lot of very sick stories that made it a difficult process to select the very best. My hat's off to the winners: Caelin Beaty (for "Chiseled"),…
December 29, 2012Posted inData+Errata1 Comment
Posted inAmbulations

“French Smilie” — Outtake from Video in Progress

Working up a video related to "The Fridge of the Damned" (which is something exciting to announce in the New Year!). This snapshot of two overlapping fridge magnets is an outtake I kind of liked and felt compelled to share here. I posted a similar one to flickr last night. [The mouths on both are from an old "Freaky Faces" magnet set we picked up in a gift shop years ago.] You'll be hearing a lot more about the Fridge of the Damned soon... hope you'll participate!
December 28, 2012Posted inAmbulations