Comments on: Lovecraft Epilogue: The Parodies http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/ Conservatism for punks. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11473 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11473 Ah, yes! To this day, the only play I've seen in which an actor's mouth was wide with horror for so long that drool poured out of it. Good times. Ah, yes! To this day, the only play I’ve seen in which an actor’s mouth was wide with horror for so long that drool poured out of it. Good times.

]]> by: Laura http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11472 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:48:58 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11472 One mustn't forget the unintentionally parodic theatrical adaptation of Lovecraft that we saw in NYC a few years ago -- it was so overwrought that it prompted one of us to quip on the way out, "I've never heard anyone talk so much about the unspeakable!" One mustn’t forget the unintentionally parodic theatrical adaptation of Lovecraft that we saw in NYC a few years ago — it was so overwrought that it prompted one of us to quip on the way out, “I’ve never heard anyone talk so much about the unspeakable!”

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11470 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:18:24 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11470 That's very good -- and on a more serious note, comic books bring us this monthly series starting next month, as it happens: http://comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12966 That’s very good — and on a more serious note, comic books bring us this monthly series starting next month, as it happens:

http://comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12966

]]> by: Dan G http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11469 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:01:25 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11469 Actually, *this* is the best Cthulhu parody: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/Jan/cthulhu.html Actually, *this* is the best Cthulhu parody:

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/Jan/cthulhu.html

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11462 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:46:04 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11462 Breitbart News, where I learned of the goats, also notes a controversy over a taxpayer-funded state field trip for sexual deviants to a child-filled circus, so the world-gone-mad quotient is high today. Breitbart News, where I learned of the goats, also notes a controversy over a taxpayer-funded state field trip for sexual deviants to a child-filled circus, so the world-gone-mad quotient is high today.

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11461 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:43:09 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11461 Aaaiiieeee! I have long said that a giant crab climbing up a tree to get coconuts in David Attenborough's _Life on Earth_ series was one of the most unsettling things I've ever seen, and then you inflict that on me. And I only just learned today that there was literally a mad slasher on my block last night (killed a psychotherapist one corner north who may well have been his, given how often victims know their attackers) -- and saw a news item about Florida cops being baffled by recent goat decapitations (I'm going to go out on a limb and guess immigrants from the Caribbean on that one). Add one giant squid sighting to this list or tell me that Huckabee has begun showing a visible halo, and I'm stocking up on non-Euclidean protractors. Aaaiiieeee!

I have long said that a giant crab climbing up a tree to get coconuts in David Attenborough’s _Life on Earth_ series was one of the most unsettling things I’ve ever seen, and then you inflict that on me.

And I only just learned today that there was literally a mad slasher on my block last night (killed a psychotherapist one corner north who may well have been his, given how often victims know their attackers) — and saw a news item about Florida cops being baffled by recent goat decapitations (I’m going to go out on a limb and guess immigrants from the Caribbean on that one).

Add one giant squid sighting to this list or tell me that Huckabee has begun showing a visible halo, and I’m stocking up on non-Euclidean protractors.

]]> by: Scott Nybakken http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11460 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:33:37 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11460 Speaking of things you can eat which are surely Cthulian in nature, I give you the coconut crab of the Indian and western Pacific: http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg This is not photoshopped! More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab Speaking of things you can eat which are surely Cthulian in nature, I give you the coconut crab of the Indian and western Pacific:

http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg

This is not photoshopped! More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab

]]> by: Dan G http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11449 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:06:26 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2008/02/13/lovecraft-epilogue-the-parodies/#comment-11449 I would not actually call the third link a parody -- I would suggest that it's a perfectly realized minor classic of SF/horror- fantasy short stories, almost up there with, e.g., Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon," Dan Simmons's "The River Styx Runs Upstream," William Tenn's (Klass) "The Liberation of Earth," and Lewis Padgett's (Kuttner & Moore) "Mimsy Were The Borogoves." (Digressing, the latter was recently adapted into the movie "The Last Mimzy," which I have not seen.) I would not actually call the third link a parody — I would suggest that it’s a perfectly realized minor classic of SF/horror- fantasy short stories, almost up there with, e.g., Cordwainer Smith’s “The Game of Rat and Dragon,” Dan Simmons’s “The River Styx Runs Upstream,” William Tenn’s (Klass) “The Liberation of Earth,” and Lewis Padgett’s (Kuttner & Moore) “Mimsy Were The Borogoves.” (Digressing, the latter was recently adapted into the movie “The Last Mimzy,” which I have not seen.)

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