There is something pulling me into the scenario: when I first traveled heads on toward the continental divide, some years back, the West became by definition my part of the US, and some portion of me stayed out there, waiting and advancing memories at regular intervals.
[taken on the way from Los Alamos down on the [...]
August 26, 2007
Categories: Apocalypse, Lovecraft, New Mexico, The West, Uncategorized . . Author: DJG . Comments: 4 Comments
As an update to Cthulhu’s Chariot – that was first posted by sigsegv (some rights reserved) – via The Limbonaut.
The insinuation of it is malicious, in a malicious kind of way.
Cthulhu is supposed to be the eater of the world and of humankind, of course, so his name, grouped in that way, is rudely ambiguous. [...]
August 23, 2007
Categories: Cthulhu, Literature, Lovecraft, Lovecraftiana . . Author: DJG . Comments: 1 Comment
While I have the second part of my inquiry into the apocalyptic frontier – the program says Lovecraft! Lovecraft! Lovecraft!; and it thinks, Lovecraft! Lovecraft! Lovecraft!, but it slides another name in, of course, and blurs the I am Providence-man into the background, there to load all the depth of information on him that is [...]
August 23, 2007
Categories: Brando, Indonesia, Lovecraft, Necronomicon, Uncategorized . . Author: DJG . Comments: Leave a Comment
via Boy in the Machine -
he’s finally entering the curriculum, if in a…well…mythological manner.
And at his place, Cruel Angel presents a written script for the event, Lovecraft 101.
August 20, 2007
Categories: Literature, Lovecraft . . Author: DJG . Comments: Leave a Comment
All the best -
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
[first posted by StrangeInterlude, some rights reserved]
August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937
The greatest jerk writer whose birthday party I never had the opportunity to ditch.
August 20, 2007
Categories: Lovecraft, Uncategorized . . Author: DJG . Comments: Leave a Comment
[first posted by Chili bob, some rights reserved]
Yeah, that’s exactly what Volkswagen automobiles are known as over here in Germany – chariots of the Gods, even multi-tentacled ones like Cthulhu. Just so as not to create confusion – Miskatonic University is in Massachussetts, and enrollment is extremely competitive.
August 18, 2007
Categories: Apocalypse, Chrome, Cthulhu, Cthulhu in Germany, Literature, Lovecraft, Lovecraftiana, Volkswagen, auto, automobile, cars, chariot of the gods, grand wagon of the apocalypse . . Author: DJG . Comments: 2 Comments
[huh!]
[English translation of the video captions provided - here - by psychomachia]
And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say [...]
August 16, 2007
Categories: Literary Monsters, Literature, Lovecraft, call of cthulhu . . Author: DJG . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Worcester Telegram has an article – here – on the stone heritage of Petersham, MA., – a reference to, well, the place’s stone buildings and sites: mainly to what appears to be an archaic system of stone walls.
[first posted by mortmer, some rights reserved]
Then, and I quote here (and the emphases are also mine) [...]
August 15, 2007
Categories: Antarctica, At the Mountains of Madness, Horror of History, Lovecraft, Rats, Rats in the Wall, Rodents, cannibalism . . Author: DJG . Comments: 2 Comments
This blog here is quickly drawing toward its six month anniversary. My mission objective has survived. The objective was to offer a place for the academic/scholarly scrutiny of Lovecraft’s works, and the scrutiny would be included.
I also realize, – I’ve been a sloth. What would I see this evening, at last and I don’t [...]
August 8, 2007
Categories: Apocalypse, Lovecraft, Lovecraftiana . . Author: DJG . Comments: 1 Comment
Drawing mention to JJ Abrams‘ upcoming film project, trailerishly excerpted above, damien at blather.net asks -
Anyway, here at Blather we’re curious to see what hardcore Lovecraft fans make of all this. Interesting and timely new slant on the Ancient Ones story? Or a cynical bastardisation of Lovecraft’s great opus?
Well, I’m not [...]
August 7, 2007
Categories: Abrams, Apocalypse, Lovecraft, Viral . . Author: DJG . Comments: Leave a Comment