Two for sale in my Etsy shop… …and five directly from my sketchbook:
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Florida’s Resign-to-Run law.
This is something that I had originally spelled in a Twitter thread, as it was too much to explain completely in 280 characters. (No, I’m not paying for Twitter Blue, which allows you to compose tweets of up to 4,000 characters. I’m cheap, that’s why.) But as I still truncated my comments for space, here’s…
Movies Seen Recently: Voodoo Island, Hidden Figures, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Voodoo Island (1957) – A wealthy developer owns an island which would make a great resort, except the survey team he sent disappeared, and the only one who made it back alive is catatonic. He turns to professional debunker Boris Karloff, who smirks as he puts together a team to go poke holes in any…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
I’ve filled another sketchbook, so the Sketch of the Day is back on Instagram and Twitter!
Movies Seen Recently: Thirst, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Beyond the Reach
Thirst (2015) – An alien space capsule bearing a ravenous beastie crash-lands right where one of those wilderness survival hikes for wayward youth is trekking. Munching ensues. I started out with high(ish) hopes for this one as, despite the hokey B-movie premise, the acting and general production values seemed higher than the SyFy Original/The Asylum…
Movies Seen Recently: Trench 11, Tombstone, Freddy vs. Jason
Trench 11 (2017) – I don’t know if anyone expected “bunker horror” to be a full-on horror subgenre, but here we are. At least this one moves a little from the peak of the bell curve by having it set in World War I rather than II. (So the German bad guys are not Nazis!…
Movies Seen Recently: Freddy’s Dead, New Nightmare, War-Gods of the Deep
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) – If Elm Street 5 was the last attempt to photocopy Elm Street 3, Freddy’s Dead is full-scale bad fanfic put on screen. In a full break from any other character we’ve seen (except Freddy himself, of course), we begin with an amnesiac teenager — the last child in…
Movies Seen Recently: Father Christmas is Back, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5
Father Christmas is Back (2021)- The story of the Christmas family — four grown daughters and a mother — who’ve been trying to have a proper British Christmas for decades since their father, James Christmas, walked out on Christmas long ago. Now, suddenly, he shows up at the ancestral manse one daughter has married into…
Movies Seen Recently: The Haunted Palace, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
The Haunted Palace (1963) – The cuckoo in Roger Corman’s nest of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, this one is named for a Poe poem, but draws most of its inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, transplanted into a vaguely pre-now semi-European, semi-New England milieu. Vincent Price is the old sorcerer Joseph…
Passed on in 2022.
Of course, millions of people left this world in this year, and the names which aren’t famous (or at least familiar to me) are, to other people in their direct circle, much more impactful. And there were at least as many born during the same year — but there’s no way to tell at present…