Apparently, the weird weather we had at Sunset this year favored tomatoes, because we had quite a few. I’ve made fried green tomatoes 3 times and will probably make more; I also have some green cherry tomatoes that I’ll be using for mincemeat if the apple trees cooperate. But we had far more ripe cherry tomatoes than we could use for salad (because I don’t eat salad), so I decided to make salsa (which is a staple in this house thanks to Grace). What you see in the picture below is two pounds of cherry tomatoes; I chopped them up pretty thoroughly in my ninja, then finely chopped half a medium-sized onion, half a bell pepper and four cloves of garlic, and sauteed them for a few minutes in two tablespoons of olive oil. I mixed that with the tomatoes and added the following: 1 small can (4 oz) of diced, roasted green chiles; two tbsp each of vinegar, cilantro, and chili powder; and 1/2 tsp each of salt, granulated garlic, extra-hot (Indian) chili powder, cayenne, and MSG. Now, I didn’t just dream up those proportions; I started with half the tomatoes and none of the spices, and Grace and I repeatedly taste-tested the salsa, adding or increasing ingredients as we went, until about two hours later we had something we were both happy with. It made enough for two pints and a bit left over, and the full jars are in the canner right now as I type this. I’ll let you know how it comes out, but I think we may have a winner!
Posts Tagged ‘recipes’
Diary #743
Posted in Diary, tagged recipes, Sunset on September 25, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Diary #733
Posted in Diary, tagged recipes, Sunset, Washington (state) on July 16, 2024| 1 Comment »
The heat wave hung on until a week ago today, and though it wasn’t as bad as some of the heat waves we’ve had in recent years, it was bad enough (especially since I still haven’t managed to shake that allergy yet). Most summer days we’re in the low 20s Celsius, with occasional surges to the high 20s and plenty of sunshine and no rain at all. It looks like it’s pretty good for my tomatoes, as long as I keep watering them every day; I also need to fill troughs for for the animals nearly every day because the evaporation rate is pretty high this time of year (in sharp contrast to the ten months of the year that aren’t named after Roman emperors). All in all the summers here are much more annoying to me due to excessive light than to excessive heat, but when we do get the occasional heat wave in a house without air conditioning, icebox cake is a lovely cooler.
Crumpets
Posted in Diary, Miscellaneous, tagged recipes, United Kingdom on July 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t made crumpets in a while, and was craving them recently so I made a batch. Several people on Twitter & BlueSky expressed interest, so I decided to share my recipe. You can’t make them without crumpet rings; when I got mine they were fairly difficult to find, but I imagine finding them on the internet would be no big deal. Since crumpets are eaten toasted anyhow, it’s best to make these earlier in the day or even the day before you actually want them. I’m assuming most of my UK readers who cook already have a recipe, so I’ll just use standard US cooking measurements here.
2 1/4 cups flour
1 packet yeast (I like the quick-rise kind)
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
3/4 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp warm water
1) Mix milk, 1 1/2 cups warm water, salt & sugar in a small saucepan and heat until warm (not hot). Mix flour and yeast; add liquid and beat with electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds, then high for 3 minutes. Cover with a towel and let stand in a warm place for 1 hour.
2) Mix baking soda into the 2 tbsp warm water; add to the batter and mix well. I usually just let my stand mixer set up during the wait time so I don’t have to dirty another beater. Let stand covered in a warm place for 10 minutes; meanwhile, grease crumpets rings, place them on a griddle or large skillet, and preheat over medium heat.
3) Ladle the batter into each ring, filling about 3/4 of the way up. Cook for 5-7 minutes or until the tops are mostly dry (the middles will usually be still wet). Remove rings with kitchen tongs and set aside; flip each crumpet with a spatula and cook for another minute. Remove to a cooling rack.
TIPS: Keep your eye on the griddle temperature; I use a cast-iron skillet so I usually need to nudge the heat down after the first batch to avoid burning the bottoms. Also, since you want to regrease the rings for each batch, I find cooking spray is the fastest & easiest way to go.
SERVING: Toast the crumpets when you’re ready to eat them; I find it’s best to do them just a notch lower than you would sliced bread (unless you’re one of those barbarians who like your toast burnt, in which case do them several notches lower). They’re great with butter, clotted cream, jam or marmalade, lemon curd, anything like that. One of my readers said he likes them with Marmite, which I have not tried but sounds interesting. This recipe will make roughly a dozen or just under, so put any you’re not going to eat that day in a sealed Tupperware-type container. Anyway, that’s all there is to it; the thing I love best about them is their texture, much more like a proper waffle or pancake than an English muffin. Enjoy!
Links #726
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, California, cops, drugs, Google, hysteria, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, internet, Italy, Japan, Never Call the Cops, pizza!, propaganda, psychology, recipes, Things We Choose To Do Together, United Kingdom, video on June 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
In…40 years…I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty by the police. – Jerry Steering
I have never understood why many of the same critics who love the Sherman Brothers’ work for Disney dislike their comparable work in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is why I feature a video from the latter every chance I get. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Jesse Walker, Popehat (x2), Mike Masnick, Kevin Wilson, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- R.I.P. Richard Sherman.
- Much obituary. Very sadness.
- Artificial stupidity in the kitchen.
- I’m sure you feel much safer now.
- The funniest thing I’ve read this year.
- The US only thinks it has immigration issues.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Laws like this have already been ruled unconstitutional by the 4th Circuit.
- Cops will never stop doing this until the state stops giving them pretexts.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional anymore.
- The hotel industry is really going to regret its collaboration with fanatics.
- It’s good to see a government hoist with its own “sex trafficking” petard.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of my career.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but these laws are wholly deranged.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at this little girl as she died.
- Denying meds to caged people is silently yelling “Stop faking!” at them.
- They make this sound like the bureaucrat was doing his victims a favor.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will grow until ruled unconstitutional.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- One would think that the title “youth pastor” would be a big red flag.
- The best way to accomplish prohibitionist goals is to buy politicians.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- The 5th Circuit sucked Louisiana politicians’ dicks on this in 2018.
- June 2nd is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”.
- “Sex predators” are mostly men with authority over their targets.
- Cops, antimatter, Tina Turner, George Maharis, and much more.
- The censors are growing bold enough to admit their real goals.
- Occasionally, cops’ lies are too outrageous even for politicians.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- If this doesn’t horrify you, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
- Letting government dictate what constitutes “disinformation”.
- The 2nd installment of a multi-part review of the Buffyverse.
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s blind submission to authority.
- Looks like the judge didn’t buy his “porn addiction” excuse.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from May 2012 and 2013.
- French law provides some defense vs religious activism.
- Indian sex workers have awaited this ruling for years.
- A collection of essays for International Whores’ Day.
- Whores’ Day is not an occasion for sanitized words.
- Cops, dentists, mutant hamsters, and much more.
- Cops, kinks, robots, Eric Carle, and much more.
- Fake client texts from an unscrupulous ad site.
- Opening up my new paddock extension.
- I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
- Instagram and TikTok users, take note.
- Fixing the wiring problems at Sunset.
- Nearly finished with the atrium roof.
- Sows hoist with their own petard.
- Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
- And it can find you just as easily.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Building a new stable.
- Stop faking!
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Patterns
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Music, tagged animals, holidays, psychology, recipes, video on May 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
One of the main manifestations of my OCD is that I have a system for nearly everything I do. My readers can see it in my blog: a new post every day, always at the same time, with certain kinds of columns appearing on certain days of the week and/or month in a strictly-managed format. There’s even a lot of deep structure in the blog that few of y’all probably even notice, but which in my mind is an integral part of the blog’s structure. And beneath that is another layer of organization completely invisible to y’all: I write certain kinds of columns on certain days, and to a lesser extent certain times of day. For example, I’m typing this on the evening of Tuesday, May 21st, because (unless life forces me to do it another time) I write Monday columns on the preceding Tuesday (after two of the news items for the next Saturday’s news column). I pore over Twitter with my breakfast, collecting news items, commenting on what I find, and promoting things I’ve already written; I’m generally done about noonish and then move on to my morning ablutions, followed by my chores. Afternoons vary by the day; I usually wash clothes on Monday and Friday, and also do my groceries on Monday. Other days are for appointments or weekly chores like vacuuming the floor or burning the garbage, and some days I actually manage to sneak in some other task I want to accomplish like baking cookies or tackling some kind of odious paperwork. I cook dinner nearly every day, and there are patterns there too: red beans & rice on Mondays, soup & sandwich on Tuesdays, pasta on Thursdays, meatless Fridays, Tex-Mex Saturdays. My cooking patterns aren’t merely daily and weekly, either; I usually make waffles on the first Friday of every month because we only eat a few, and the rest go into the fridge so Grace can rewarm them in the toaster oven for breakfast. And similar patterns apply to other day/month combinations, which are of course subject to interruption by seasonal events; on top of that the times I cook, turn the lights on, feed the animals, and other such tasks follow a set schedule which varies by season. Overwhelmed? I’m not, because that’s how my brain works. And directing my OCD toward scheduling chores and planning meals keeps me from obsessing too much about far more distracting minutiae, even though I also have the counting to 16 thing.
Yes, They’re Still Tweets
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged abortion, Alabama, animals, artificial stupidity, asset seizure, blogging, Bluesky, censorship, consensual crime, cops, drugs, fascism, Idaho, imaginative fiction, internet, language, law, lawheads, left-right myth, marriage, politicians, pragmatism, prisons, propaganda, psychology, recipes, restaurants, robots, social purity, STEM, Twitter, violence vs. sex workers, yellow journalism, yin and yang on May 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Tincture and Snakebite
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged drugs, Grace, recipes, STEM, video on March 15, 2024| 1 Comment »
One of the ways Grace and I use cannabis is by ethanol extraction of THC from resin, then using the resulting solution in either concentrated (tincture) or dilute forms. Due to Grace’s many health problems, one of which is severe arthritis, her THC intake is so high it would be cost-prohibitive to get it all from edibles; smoking doesn’t bring long-lasting relief, and doing too much of it is inadvisable anyhow due to her chronic lung damage from decades in the industrial trades. She keeps a bottle of the tincture on her desk, and adds drops of it to her tea as needed; we use the more dilute form (which I call snakebite) in her soup, and I sometimes use it (very sparingly; “dilute” is a relative term, as you’ll see) in cocktails when I really want something strong. We were introduced to both of these by a generous gent who used to make them for us, then decided to buy us the equipment and teach us to do it ourselves. And now I’m going to teach you; it isn’t that hard, and the equipment isn’t terribly expensive.
The first step is to buy “dab wax” (resin) from your local legal dispensary; I’m afraid I have no idea how to get ahold of it in places where it isn’t legal. In Washington, this is actually the cheapest ingredient; I usually get the highest-THC resin available from among the budget-priced selections, which are usually just over $10. If we’re going to make tincture, I get two packs of an indica; for snakebite, a single pack of sativa. I wouldn’t advise going any stronger until you’ve tried it at this level;
as I wrote above, “dilute” is a relative term, and the snakebite is still very strong (just not as concentrated as the tincture, which one uses by the drop rather than the tablespoon). Put the wax into a small beaker (we use an 80 ml size) and place that into a decarboxylator machine like this one; you’ll need to read the instructions carefully, but it’s fairly foolproof and has a light that turns from red to green when it’s done. The beaker will be hot, so Grace usually lets it sit in the machine for about 30 minutes or so before attempting to remove it.
Once it’s cool enough to handle with bare hands, take it out and add about 60 ml of pure ethanol; you don’t want to add it too soon lest the beaker break. You don’t need lab-grade ethanol; Everclear is 95% ethanol, and that works just fine (it’s also available at most liquor stores). Next, you need to stir it very thoroughly, over heat; Grace insists stirring it by hand is not sufficient. Here’s our magnetic stirrer in action; you can get similar units on Amazon.
You can see the settings Grace usually uses in this video. When you can’t see any more wax globules at all, either suspended in the liquid or stuck to the sides (roughly 45-60 minutes), you’re ready for the next step. For tincture, that means simply pouring it into a small bottle with a dropper top; make sure you label it! For snakebite, there’s an extra step. If you look at the package the resin comes in, there’s a little chart with the THC content broken down; the one you want is “Total THC”.
It will be expressed as a %, and since the resin we get here comes in 1-gram containers, it’s a simple matter to work out the amount of THC in your beaker (93% = 930 mg, etc). Multiply that by 0.75 to get the total # of ml of ethanol for your batch, allowing for what’s already in the beaker; in my example, the total volume of the finished snakebite should be about 698 ml, so if there’s 70 ml of solution in the beaker, I would add 628 ml. You don’t need to be exactingly precise; you just want to know how strong the resulting solution is. At these proportions, the snakebite is 60 mg of THC/45-ml shot; that works out to 20 mg per tablespoon. You could of course make it stronger if you like, but I wouldn’t go much weaker because pure ethanol is over 3x as strong as typical vodka. I keep it in a fancy decanter I bought from a garage sale when I was a teenager, and I add 8 drops of green food coloring per bottle so no guest at your house accidentally pours themselves a big old slug without asking what’s in the bottle (which may or may not have happened with one of our early batches). You could use any color you like, but I chose green in Scotty’s honor.
Anyhow, that’s all there is to it; enjoy it in good health!
Links #705
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, Words, tagged California, censorship, China, cops, disease, domestic violence, fascism, games, hysteria, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Never Call the Cops, recipes, Texas, United Kingdom, video on January 5, 2024| 1 Comment »
I will never make egg fried rice again. – Wang Gang
Though Essra Mohawk had a career which spanned decades starting in the ’60, this is probably the performance most of y’all will remember best. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Jesse Walker, Joe Lancaster, Clarissa, Mike Masnick, Popehat, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Essra Mohawk.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Laws are more important than people.
- Egg fried rice is now subversive in China.
- What the beginning of a dark age looks like.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
From the Archives
- Blaming behavior on an “addiction” is the opposite of taking responsibility.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Cops, writing, Pelé, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, and much more.
- Prosecutor begs judge to let him keep illegal porn video for personal use.
- Previous columns for New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, & Little Christmas.
- Prohibitionists can always find bogus “studies” to support their fantasies.
- In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting the victims.
- Hey, female cops; how’s collaboration with the police state working out?
- Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them.
- Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- Without your unflagging support, my blog would’ve folded years ago.
- Texas won’t be satisfied until every functionary is spying on women.
- Innocent people accused of “sex trafficking” are starting to hit back.
- Courts are losing patience with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
- As a cop and screw, he treated strangers in exactly this same way.
- Worst of all, Western governments are looking at this as a model.
- An earlier report identified only 245, until somebody dug deeper.
- How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
- This will continue until reporters stop parroting cop PR releases.
- Does anyone really believe this wasn’t a foregone conclusion?
- At last, the world is starting to pay attention to sex workers.
- The unhinged Guinasso and his pet fantasist are at it again.
- Cops, amateurs, Betty White, April Ashley, and much more.
- The word “healthy” is no longer a semantically neutral one.
- Cops, lycanthropy, Luna, Barbara Shelley, and much more.
- It’s deeply satisfying to see cops preying upon each other.
- In which the Wall Street Journal licks Xi Jinping’s arse.
- Another example of why cops are not reformable.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- Are you beginning to see the whole picture now?
- Another example of barking up the wrong tree.
- In which I build a new kitchen shelving unit.
- Where “alleged” is used to mean “endemic”.
- “Youth pastors” of a feather flock together.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- When it’s too cold to work on the annex.
- An argument I’ve often made myself.
- Literal baby-raping cop of the week.
- As I’ve been telling you since 2012.
- Being lazy (by Maggie standards).
- This is only the beginning.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Twelfth Night at Sunset.
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Links #696
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Alabama, artificial stupidity, cops, holidays, Kentucky, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, New York, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, recipes, teachers, video on November 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
You are going to die! – “Officer” Matthew McCulloch
There was no way I was not going to memorialize Richard Roundtree with this song. The links above it were provided by Mark Bennett, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, Phoenix Calida, and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.
- Computer-assisted baking.
- Recipes from Aleister Crowley.
- R.I.P. Richard Roundtree and Richard Moll.
- Cop shoots up a grade-school Halloween party.
- No, not because your neighbor is a coach, either.
- Gang murders man while attempting to steal his car.
- If only there had been some sign of what this cop was like.
From the Archives
- This paper copsucks so hard, it even puts the word “rape” in scare quotes.
- Psychedelics are being destigmatized much more quickly than I expected.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- And yet amateurs pretend that sex workers are the one who spread STIs.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth crossed with the “traffickers at stores” myth.
- Kristof is a vile excuse for a human being; naturally he went into politics.
- Apparently, I was destined to fight censors regardless of my career path.
- Unconstitutional bill failed in over a dozen states before passing in Utah.
- The government doesn’t care that its war on thought is unconstitutional.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Cops, recipes, choo-choos, Jules Bass, Jerry Lee Lewis, and much more.
- Swedish criminalization harms sexworkers by creating a climate of fear.
- Calling a bunch of unrelated raids & arrests a “human trafficking sting”.
- The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
- Bird-brains still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this.
- Nevada politicians accomplish by decree what they couldn’t do legally.
- PREA is feel-good pap while screws have absolute power over victims.
- The only “evidence” these racist sociopaths need is being Romanian.
- Nobody is giving expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
- Investigating sex workers’ disappearance is such a burden for cops.
- Sex workers need to keep suing prohibitionists whenever possible.
- “Porn addiction” is still being used as an excuse for violent crimes.
- While US cops favor VR porn games, Kazakh cops prefer LARPing.
- Brnovich does what an ethical judge would’ve done a year earlier.
- Politicians will criminalize virtually anything that can be defined.
- The “Violence Against Women Act” promotes its named subject.
- We are watching the beginning of the end of the War on Drugs.
- I could fill an entire tag with just cops who molest or rape kids.
- ACLU finally bothers to call for decriminalization, 45 years late.
- There has literally never been a case of drugged trick-or-treat.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
- “Vagina Egg” Paltrow joins noted bigot Jada Pinkett Smith.
- Vomit out the right buzzwords and you can censor at will.
- Watch what you say in front of your children, comrade.
- To cops, sex workers can only be victims or criminals.
- It wasn’t easy to get the steel for my bathhouse roof.
- Cops, horror, irony, Sean Connery, and much more.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- A firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
- Cops, scary music, Mort Sahl, and much more.
- My two previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- A permanent dumb “awareness raising” stunt.
- A fancy Halloween spread for my birthday!
- My two previous columns for Halloween.
- He wasn’t incorrect in this assumption.
- Oh look, it’s another “youth pastor”.
- Birthday presents are awesome.
- Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
- The first leaf of my annex roof.
- Much more of this, please.
- A catalog of thanatopses.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- An unfinished shower.
- Birthday presents!
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!
Trick Treatment
Posted in History, Links, Miscellaneous, tagged animals, Australia, blogging, Canada, comics, Connecticut, cops, disease, Hollywood, I can't breathe, imaginative fiction, Iowa, Maryland, Mexico, Minnesota, Poland, politicians, pregnancy, psychology, racism, recipes, teachers, United Kingdom on October 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »
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“, and “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included “Day of the Dead 2022“, “Guy Fawkes Day 2022“, “Diary #646“, “Undead Powers“, and a three-part review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #643, #658, #668, #669, #682, #692, #694, “Tweets for Long Nights” and “The First Tweets of Spring“, and a collection of seasonal links appears below. PS: Have you picked up on the pattern I’m using for the names of my “Throwback Thursday” columns?
- Pleasant dreams.
- “Invasion of the…”
- PSA for the undead.
- Ooooh, so scary, kids!
- The undead of Poland.
- Recipes from the dead.
- Nightmare of the week.
- Kinda late for Halloween.
- I’ve seen this one before.
- What scares you the most?
- Is this the face of a vampire?
- I would’ve loved this as a kid.
- BEHOLD THE GHOST COOKIE!
- The Onion, in a seasonal mood.
- A new twist on “I can’t breathe”.
- Not much of an exaggeration, really.
- Where’s Kolchak when you need him?
- Sometimes The Onion is truly inspired.
- A modern version of the “cursed room”.
- Because there’s nothing scarier than people eating.
- “The House Is the Monster”: Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle.
- Most of these look more like powerful undead or demon lords.
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