Moe Lane

I would buy this.  Seriously. Call it a ‘parody’ and everything’s jake… no, wait, the text is probably still under copyright.  Still, straighten it all out and I’ll buy it.

Via io9, via AoSHQ.

Except: Florida.

(pause)

Oh, you lucky so-and-sos: the GIF is too big for me to upload in all of it SAN-destroying glory.  So your fragile human minds are all spared… unless you click the link.

The shiny link.

Click it.

CLLLLLLLLIIIIIIICCCCCKKKKKK IIIIIIITTTTTTTTT…..

(Via @kennethhite) Unfortunately, I already spent my gaming allowance for this month, or I’d be helping to fund this one now: the Miskatonic School for Girls Deck-Building Game.

I don’t know what I’d do with it, except go through the cards and laugh at the jokes, but it’s the sort of thing that ends up on my gaming shelves.

I am drawing a blank that is downright frightening, in fact.  I can’t even think of a good movie trailer.

Talk amongst yourselves?

Moe Lane

[UPDATE]: Ah, the HPL Historical Society.  They never fail me.

As it happens, one of my readers knows Sandy Petersen, who is one of the executive producers for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society‘s The Whisperer in Darkness movie (and for the RPG buffs out there: yes, that Sandy Petersen). Sandy was happy to answer some of my questions about the movie.  The interview’s after the fold: we conducted it by email, so at least you won’t have to listen to me for once.

I have to say: it’s not the primary focus of my online activities these days, more’s the pity – but it’s nice to just have some unambiguously game-related material for a change.  Especially since it involves the chance to talk to somebody who created the game which currently takes up half a shelf of my gaming bookshelf.  The movie is currently being shown abroad; hopefully, they’ll be showing it in the States this summer/fall somewhere that’s close to DC.

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(Via Nodwick) And it will not be a light romantic comedy set in modern Nebraska.  Do you think that I jest?  Go look at what they did to Exit To Eden if you want to see what Hollywood can do to a book.  Not going to be a problem here:

The main issues that financiers have had is that del Toro needed his movie to be a period film, and he needed it to be R-rated. Movies like that are really hard to market, and so studios, such as Universal in this case, haven’t wanted to pay for it.

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So why would Universal decide that they were finally ready to take the risk? One name: James Cameron. According to the reports, the Avatar director has decided to back del Toro’s vision and come on as a producer. Not only that, but the movie will be in 3D, and there’s no one else on the planet right now that you want in your corner when it comes to 3D more than James Cameron. They even plan to start pre-production immediately with hopes of filming some time next summer.

Cameron’s a bit of a… wonderful person who is going to help put one of Lovecraft’s most epic vistas on the screen… but he knows how to do big, and big is what you need when you’re doing a horror/adventure story about a lost, pre-human Antarctic city.  There’s been a real dearth of big-screen Mythos movies that have been mainstream successes – I count three, in fact, and none of them are officially Lovecraft films* – so I’m kind of hoping that this one takes off.

Moe Lane (more…)

I would like to note for the record that I am so stoked for this:

“This” being the movie adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Whisperer In Darkness. The same people who did The Call of Cthulhu a couple of years ago; you may remember that I watched and enjoyed that one a good deal. I expect that I will enjoy this one possibly a bit more, if only because I prefer talkies to silent pictures.

There would be, in fact, a market for a Cthulhu-themed animated program. I think that it was Gahan Wilson that suggested “Cthulhu Kiddies?”

…What? You’ve seen some of my Books of the Week, haven’t you?

…because they have this annoying habit of making stuff that works; unlike, say, English majors who can never quite turn the ingenious ideas in our their heads into some sort of objective reality (I’m saying this to her as I’m pulling our firstborn around on the sled that my wife improvised out of an Amazon.com shipping box and some ribbon*).

So she looks at me and says “Three words.  Tacoma. Narrows. Bridge.”

I wittily go “Huh?”

She says “Get thee hence to Google.”

Concrete shouldn’t do that.

Moe Lane

*As you probably have gathered, my wife is an engineer.

You would have think that I would have posted this one. It’s how I roll.

Via Liber Ex Machina.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.

Bud Light… Honey Wheat.

It’s real.  I’ve seen it.  I’ve tasted it.  Thankfully, my taste buds shut down in self defense after the first sip.  Even the guy giving away samples didn’t try to push it too hard.

OTOH, the Michelob Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale was… not bad.  Enough so that I picked up a six-pack, in spite of the name.

As my wife emailed me to note, they’re perfect compliments to Tiberius cologne: perfumes inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.

SHOGGOTH
It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congerie of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

An amorphous, radiant, incandescent scent. Ever changing, protoplasmic and primordial: white amber, green coconut meat, iris, palmarosa, Chinese peony, lime, water lily, snowdrop, muguet, lemongrass, osmanthus, wisteria, glassy musk, and hinoki.

Provided that ‘perfect’ includes ‘geeky.’