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Tim Burton once did the exact same thing to my cousin.  –  The Bog Freak

Remember that new Chopin waltz discovered back in October?  Mike Siegel found a video of That Internet Pianist with the Creepy Stare playing it.  The links above it were provided by Tracy Quan, Ryan Marino, IncarcerNation (x2), The Onion, and Asawin Suebsaeng, in that order.

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I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys.  –  Peter Yarrow

I really couldn’t have chosen a better song for this memorial.  The links above it were provided by Mike Stabile; Tim Cushing; IncarcerNation; Franklin Harris and Carol Fenton; Jesse Walker; and IncarcerNation again, in that order.

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I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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The four accused her of “interfering with the dead.”  –  Kevin Underhill

Alice Cooper and Rob Halford are featured in this video I recently happened upon; it’s not amazing or anything, but it’s certainly interesting.  The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, The Onion, C.J. Ciaramella, Phoenix Calida, Walter Olson, Nun Ya, and IncarcerNation, in that order.

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I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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The best time to ditch the idiotic 18th-century "left-right" model was in the early 19th century.2nd-best time would've been in the early 20th century.3rd-best time would've been in the postwar 20th century.4th-best time would've been before the recent election.So I don't have much hope.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-16T18:44:34.315Z

You forgot the most important one: it's the place where Bugs Bunny always made the wrong turn.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-17T04:32:49.912Z

"Leaders".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-18T08:12:33.571Z

20 million people who don't typically cook need to stop thinking there's no skill involved, and they can do it as well as someone who's been practicing every day for decades.The same could be said of those who aren't sex professionals, but that's a topic for another day.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-19T18:24:24.928Z

How long before a gang of politicians somewhere decides that, because "AI" and "safer", any collision between a robot car and one driven by a human MUST be the human's fault? reason.com/2024/11/20/t…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-20T19:28:24.430Z

If that buyer sees this, I've got a deal for him: for only $2 million (and no extra fees) I'll give him a certificate of authenticity that gives him the authority to put a croissant on any bookshelf and call it "Maggie".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-21T18:21:28.096Z

The absolute best thing about reading web pages after saving them to archive.is is seeing this across the still images that replace auto play videos:

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-24T05:16:40.978Z

Please also remember that Puritans didn't go away; they multiplied. The Puritan ethic is alive and well in dozens of modern movements (including feminism, Marxism, nutritionism, prohibitionism, evangelicalism, and Law & Order-ism) and infused throughout the entire body of US law at all levels.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-24T18:05:19.293Z

Americans who are moral imbeciles 34%have "kick me" printed on their faces 42%have the approximate wisdom of a gibbon 45%can see what's in front of them 49% are extremely stupid 55%

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-27T05:48:48.331Z

Protip: Any pundit whose rhetoric reads like Mad Libs with slots marked "wing", "buzzword", and "target group" can be safely ignored.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-27T19:03:54.481Z

So nice to mute people who "joke" about calling the cops on others for their opinions.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-28T17:17:47.899Z

Tell them to go play in the damned yard, because adults are talking inside.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-29T18:14:18.849Z

Anyone familiar with the history of empires knows that this is not "unorthodox" by any stretch of the imagination. To the contrary, it is bog-standard.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-11-30T18:33:11.880Z

This looks like something from the Fiend Folio.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-02T05:57:29.848Z

I guess some people haven't recognized yet that I view partisanism as a disturbing form of mental incapacity and moral degeneracy that I mute on sight.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-05T04:03:06.741Z

That US law and policy are solidly rooted in Puritanism is clearly visible in the fact that while it is considered "criminal" to make a person feel good for pay, it is perfectly legal to deny a person medicine or treatment he needs to feel good.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-05T18:29:49.892Z

Your regular reminder that there is no such thing as "artificial intelligence" except in marketing materials of tech companies. This does not use any kind of judgment; it is merely an algorithm which looks for certain "flags" defined by its programmers, like training a chicken to peck red things.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-06T18:33:28.520Z

Every friggin' one except Cleveland, Buffalo, and Honolulu.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-08T04:07:45.860Z

Timeline cleanse. Your eyes may also get washed a bit.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T02:37:59.541Z

Well, be fair; it would CERTAINLY damage her brand as "World's Worst Break Dancer" if there were actually *competent* dancers in a musical bearing her name.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T18:11:16.971Z

Loki would be amused.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T19:14:16.167Z

 

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Are you happy now?  –  Reid Hawley

There was really only one choice for a sendoff for Lou Donaldson, so here it is.  The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker (x2), C.J. Ciaramella, The Onion, IncarcerNation, T. Greg Doucette, and Lenore Skenazy, in that order.

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I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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Diary #748

One of my generous gentlemen sent me several DVDs for my birthday, including this Boris Karloff thriller, filmed only a year before his death in 1969.  When it arrived, I hadn’t yet decided which movies to watch on my birthday (we generally do a triple feature), but since I’ve never seen it I decided to do a Karloff triple with Frankenstein (1931) and Isle of the Dead (1945).  I also haven’t actually decided what I want to do for my birthday dinner; usually I prefer the sort of things that can easily be eaten in front of movies (finger foods and the like), and often end up doing a lot more work for my own celebration than one would expect!  Chekhov says he’s bringing a cake, though, so that will be one thing I don’t have to deal with; it’s not so much the baking as the cleanup.  So whatever I do choose to make, it’ll probably be something that doesn’t involve much more cleanup than loading the dishwasher; I don’t think taking it a little easy on my birthday is too much to ask.

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Habang natutulog ka, kinakain ko ang hininga mo.  –  Batibat

Somehow, I’ve never seen this early Tim Burton short, narrated by Vincent Price; I can’t think of a better choice for the Sunday before Halloween! The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida, Ryan Marino, The Onion, Popehat, Jesse Walker, Stephen Lemons, and C.J. Ciaramella, in that order.

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I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun.  So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween.  If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, “Tricks for the Treat“, “Tricked Out Treats“, “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“, and “Trick Treatment“.  Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included Day of the Dead 2023, Diary #697, and “Why Zombies?” There are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #695, #698, #721, #722, #739, #745, and #746, and a collection of seasonal links appears below.

 

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I had a stash in here somewhere. I don’t even know where it’s at.  –  “Officer” George Kanyuh

The Abominable Dr. Phibes and its sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, are both horror comedies from the early ’70s in which Vincent Price’s character Phibes murders many people in bizarre and grotesque ways. Both movies are set in the 1920s and anachronistically feature “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in their end credits; I especially like the way it’s done in the sequel, so I’ve decided to share that with y’all today.  The links above it were provided by Jason Kuznicki, Mike Siegel, IncarcerNation, Marc Randazza, Popehat, Jesse Walker, and IncarcerNation again, in that order.

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I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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Most of y’all have seen photos of my DVD collection, and long-time readers already know a large fraction of it consists of horror movies.  But October has only 31 nights, so every year I need to pick which of many scores of titles we’re going to watch (you can follow along below, with trailers).  Of course, I’m largely guided by impulse; I look down the shelves and pick every one that speaks to me, making sure I get at least one from all the big categories: at least one each from Universal, Hammer, and Amicus; at least one each with Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing; at least one anthology; at least one each from my ten scariest and my ten favorites; any ones I’ve bought but not yet watched; at least one Roger Corman and one William Castle; and so on.  Of course there’s a lot of overlap (Karloff/Lugosi, Price/Corman/Poe; Lee & Cushing; etc), but this isn’t an exact process.  The most important thing is to cover as much of the range of horror as I can get, from Gothic to sci-fi, from silent to modern, from funny to truly horrific, from schlock to true art, and from familiar to novel.  That, and of course to have a month of good, spooky fun!

Every night in October, we watch a horror or monster movie; the first few are usually horror-adjacent, then we move into straight horror. We're starting tonight with one of Grace's favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TV…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-02T02:28:06.461Z

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