This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 28, 2009). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Sometime between October 27th and October 28th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
- Lovecraft 101: Get to Know the Master of Scifi-Horror: "You've heard about Cthulhu, and you've probably heard about the man who created this tentacled horror, H.P. Lovecraft. Now you want to try delving into the world of Lovecraft, but where to start? Let us help you."
- Couple Alive After Car Pins Them to Bed for Almost an Hour – CNN.com: "With motor fluid spraying their faces and the weight of a car numbing their bodies, two Nevada college students struggled to stay calm after a drunk driver allegedly tore into their home, ripping them from their slumber. Kristin Palmer and Trent Wood were asleep in their home last week when a motorist allegedly drove into their bedroom around 4 a.m., mistakenly believing it was his ex-girlfriend's home. The University of Nevada students spent almost an hour pinned between the car and their bed while emergency workers battled furiously to free them. Somehow, the two left the scene with relatively minor scrapes and burns — and a new lease on life, Wood said."
- Stephen King Brings an "American Vampire" Tale to Vertigo: "The idea behind 'American Vampire' is that vampires can evolve, and because King's vampire was turned in the Old West, he thrives in the sunlight of the desert and has powers that are distinctly American. 'As the vampire bloodline, over the last couple thousand years, has hit different populations at different times, it occasionally mutates into a new species of vampires,' Snyder explained. 'And so there's this whole secret family tree of different species besides the dominant one that we're aware of — the one that is the classic, nocturnal, blood-drinking, burned-by-the-sunlight species that came to dominate Europe."
- tron.fm: "Tron 1.5: Rise of the Virals" (Soundtrack): "'Rise Of The Virals' was a fantastic, but much darker storyline from the original — different from the 'Into The Machine' pitch made to Disney by another party. It involved updating the ENCOM universe to a networked system (thanks to the Internet), but also created a darker world — full of programs abandoned as buggy systems (or 'mutants') and abused by corrupt users as viral systems. Furthermore, the story included the death of Flynn and presented questions about the digital life of programs lasting beyond the mortality of their creators — the users."
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