“A Common Nomenclature for LEGO Pieces”
Giles Turnball charts the names 4 children, British and American, use for various Lego pieces. (He also includes the Lego company’s names for them). (via Neatorama).
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
Klenginem
Klenginem lays down Eminem’s “Without Me” in the original Klingon, “Suvwl’pu’ qan tu’lu’be.”
Supernatural Collective Nouns
Everybody knows what you call a group of crows (hint: a murder) and other species of wildlife, but what about supernatural entities?
O.C.D.
Itchy for your Fewdio fix? The horror film collective has just released, “O.C.D.”: “Obsession. Compulsion. Internet Dating.”
Halloween Valu-Pak
Dread Central has pulled together a bunch of Halloween fun from “Attack of the Show” including an interview with Robert Englund and the animated Slasher School series, written by Fresh Ink’s Blair Butler.
The Eternal Game Backlog
Tales of the Rampant Coyote extols the virtues of waiting to buy a game: “Them’s that wait long enough years get the ‘Platinum Pack’ with all the expansions fully integrated in and patched to the latest level for a big discount.”
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