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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
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Dark Promptings: For the Bible Tells Me So with Lee Allen Howard

"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…
August 30, 2011Posted inInstigation6 Comments
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Dark Promptings: Don’t Mind the Knife with Natalie 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…
August 24, 2011Posted inInstigation6 Comments