“I’m Haunted Zippy, Who Are You?”
Cracked provides a list of questionably haunted items, including an evil Zippy the Pinhead doll. Who will have the heart to tell Zippy creator Bill Griffith?
Hear Mysteries of the Inner Sanctum!
The Internet Archive has a collection of the old time radio show, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, sure to spookify any All Hallow’s Eve.
A small moment of self-promotion…
I was a little surprised to find that the new online version of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is actually… encyclopedic! The entry on Challenging Destiny, for example, is really accurate. (Thanks Dave!)
John Carpenter’s Halloween
John Carpenter presents a series of Halloween videos on Funny or Die, from a short about a Cat-Thrower to one about Charlie Brown, Blockhead.
Good Books for Bad Days
By its very nature, a Romance is suffused with positive attitude. The characters learn who they are, what kind of lives they want, and then proceed to go out and get them. The end result is effort rewarded (which is frankly more interesting than virtue rewarded, because virtuousness […]
“This is a system gone utterly, gruesomely mad.”
Linda Holmes has some things to say about the madness of the MPAA rating “system.”
The Cultural Gutter 