Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Awesome Bill Murray Art Exhibit – ‘Please Post Bills’ at Gallery1988
My long-standing adoration of comedic actor Bill Murray is probably no secret [see my earlier entry/photo: "Peter Venkman, Ph.D. -- Busted" ]. So you can imagine how enthralled I am by the new exhibit of Bill Murray-inspired artwork at Gallery1988 in California, called "Please Post Bills -- An Art Tribute to a Comic Legend." Nearly all of Murray's major film characters are represented and I was pleased to see that some were not overlooked amidst all the Ghostbusters and Steve Zissou images (especially "Big Ern McKracken" from Kingpin). I was impressed by the numerous horror interpretations, especially the zombie versions…
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
My Zombie Haiku: All Halloween Day and Night Long
Happy official Halloween day. I have a lot of work to do this afternoon. But I'm going to personally challenge myself to write at least one horror haiku poem an hour (at minimum) and post it on my twitter page all day long...till midnight. I'm giving them all a zombie theme, partially inspired by the recent release of the sequel to Ryan Mecum's great Zombie Haiku book from a few years ago: Dawn of Zombie Haiku and all the great #zombiehaiku he's been publishing on twitter himself over the past few days. To read the zombie haiku, you can…
Posted inWeblog Exclusive
Skullrise: Halloween Wallpaper
Happy Halloween! Here's the next annual Halloween graphic treat: "Skullrise": a new original widescreen desktop wallpaper art available at the Arnzen Flickr Gallery, or click on the image above and then save the result to your computer.
Posted inInstigation
Dark Promptings: Personal Horrors with Tim Waggoner
"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…