I wonder what Stefan Helmreich could do with these as samples.

I hope they're not in trouble, but --- seriously, reality? This cheap imitation of eighty-year-old fiction is the best you can do?

"The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains are the least understood tectonic feature on Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Their high elevation and youthful Alpine topography, combined with their location on the East Antarctic craton, creates a paradox that has puzzled researchers since the mountains were discovered in 1958..." --- Do I need to draw you guys a picture (from which you will run in screaming mind-blasted madness)?

Why did no one tell me about this before? "A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill-ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway combines two great flavors of weird: the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H.P. Lovecraft Horror legend Brian Keene and cult storytelling master Nick Matamas dredge up a tale of drug-fueled eldritch madness from the blackest depths of the American Nightmare. On a freaked-out bus journey to Arkham, Massachusetts and the 1972 Presidential primary, evidence mounts that sinister forces are on the rise, led by the Cult of Cthulhu and its most prominent member - Richard M. Nixon."

Later: They do a good job of capturing Thompson's style, not just the verbal tics but also the concerns, and the Mythos fits in... surprisingly well.

"21st century networked society vs. Lovecraft's commonplace book".

Specifically via http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2011_04.php#017506

This fills me with disquieting thoughts about _why_ "all these worlds are yours, except Europa".

Have I really not bookmarked this before?

May I say how much I love this, especially the _At the Mountains of Madness_ one?

"But, of course, the H.P. Lovecraftian overtones of this story—a monstrous skull in a church wall—are too obvious not to mention: an easy scenario for imagining whole plots and storylines in which the ancient forms of an unknown species are discovered hidden in cathedral masonry, opening previously unimagined horizons of time and radically revising theories of the history of life on earth." My question: what is the most recent fossilized human ancestor to be part of any place of worship?

Hmmm, this seemed more amusing last night.

WANT

I approve, and just sent him some money.

“I would have given a lot to be at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding last night, where Elton John (his fee a reported I million bucks) performed for America’s leading homophobe, and not only because I would have enjoyed that moral dichotomy. I imagine the event to have been more rite than celebration, a frog on a throne, something darker than blood flowing from the champagne fountain, some tincture of BP spill mingled with something more Lovecraftian, a conjunction of Bacchanalian and Bactrian purposes and flavors. I’m certain it was just the usual bad taste scenario, overweight men flirting with women half their age, a toga party for grown ups, as we’ve seen before with certain corporate entertainments; but you can’t completely disassociate the idea of ancient evil from Limbaugh’s buffoonish act. He’s the clown at the party of the damned, dressed in a froggy zipskin suit and playing with a string of mummified human hearts, flicking out his whiplike tongue to snag Viagra from a crystal bowl.”

"Right now there are two ebook versions of my novel The Mall of Cthulhu available. One is the kindle edition, the other is the version on webscription.net. Though it's priced higher, I know some folks may want to buy the webscription version because of concerns about Amazon's DRM. Here's the problem, though-- the webscription.net version is an unauthorized edition. Nobody connected with that edition has the right to sell an electronic version of my book, and at this point, it's not at all clear that I will ever get paid for what amounts to the theft of my intellectual property. Nobody's returning my emails, and let's be honest--we're not talking about big money here, so it's not worth anybody's while to involve attorneys or anything." Therefore, Cooper has made the PDF of the advance reading copy free online, which is certainly one way to undermine the competition! (I paid for my paper copy and recommend it.)

"If that isn’t Victorian tentacle porn, I don’t know what is."

Reprint of a classic. (What _is_ at those coordinates? Google Earth says: it's just north of east-west running oceanic ridge in the south Pacific, about mid-way between New Zealand and Chile.)

Innsmouth, Mass., now _has_ a newspaper, unlike Denver, Colo., which says a lot about the early 21st century USA.

"the Gamburtsev mountains are probably older than 34 million years and were the main centre for ice-sheet growth. Moreover, the landscape has most probably been preserved beneath the present ice sheet for around 14 million years." The Lovecraft jokes are growing less funny all the time.

"Immediately before the vote on his motion, which was defeated eight to one, West gave his final remarks, arguing that the children are our future and that it's the school board's obligation to make sure they are fully versed in the unspeakable horrors still to come."

What will be funny after the Great Old Ones return?

1936 illustrations of Lovecraft's _At the Mountains of Madness_ and "Shadows out of Time".

If I ever have kids, they are _so_ going to have this read to them...

Lovecraft, summarized in the form of a Jack Chick comic-book tract.

Brief appreciation of the architectural aspect to Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time"

Oooh, pictures. "They had fins in various places, they had funny dangly bits around their mouths."

It is strange to hear Lovecraft speak, and a little disappointing that the voice does not come from a shiny metallic cylinder.

Snort.

The Antares neutrino detector in the Mediterranean is detecting --- sea-life. This leads to a riff on Lovecraft; I wonder if I should tell him about AMANDA?

Nice one.

or, a child's primer of yog-sothothery.

Album covers that should not be