Call Little Mac

Is he in IT? Just noticing the cat 9 tails he’s got there.

Robert Jordan spent a lot of time writing about women dominating other women.

Yet another reason why I don’t wear pants.

I really want a law that requires clothing sizes to include actual measurements. And it’s insane that I would have to specify that these measurements must be accurate, but the clothing industry has made lying about sizes the norm.

There shouldn’t be anything preventing me from figuring out women’s bra sizes with a tape measure aside from the fact that I don’t know them and they probably don’t want a stranger obsessively measuring their boobs.

Duckman, though that was not for kids.

Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life both had stuff that was bizarre and only allowed in a kid’s show because it was over their heads.

Batman TAS and Gargoyles both had some heavy shit. The latter also had a guy die by having fire erupt from behind his eyeballs, and a scene where a surgeon explains a gunshot wound in visceral detail. God I love that show.

The Lion King is an experiment being run by the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The music is diegetic and is used to modify behavior.

We know they can implant images and subconscious commands, and that this is perceived through music. That’s why they can coordinate musical numbers on the spot, and why sudden changes in behavior and attitude are accompanied by music.

In particular, the most critical character change comes when Simba wanders off to be alone, sees a vision in the sky, and the soundtrack kicks in with an extended version of the alien music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Suddenly he’s doing a 180 and running back towards his assigned role in the story.

Ground News because I want to see what’s going on in news across the media spectrum and they make it a lot easier.

Discord nitro classic because I don’t have a better alternative and I get the features I actually need at half the price I’d pay for the normal subscription.

A VPN because none of your goddamn business.

I love The Thing, specifically because it’s smart and has great atmosphere. And as with Tremors, I like seeing people behave intelligently and adapt to try to overcome the threat, rather than just having people be idiots so we can watch them die.

That said, it goes way past the line for my SO, who makes less of a distinction between gross creature effects and violent gore effects. Plus, it’s not like there isn’t some fairly extreme violence as well. The defibrillator scene for example.

Can’t have Shia LeBeouf without the video.

We both liked What We Do in the Shadows, but neither of us loved it. I’ve been suggesting giving the show a try but my SO is always a bit resistant to starting a new show, and the prospect of trying to squeeze a season into a limited time frame only has only made that worse. But it’ll probably happen sooner or later.

Oddly enough I have seen that one. But my preferred version will always be The Shinning.

The mix of Lovecraft and Nicholas Cage has me both excited and terrified. Also, a short story about an otherworldly color that no human has seen before is an interesting choice for a visual medium that, you know, only has existing colors to work with. My TV has vibrant reds, yellows and blues, but it’s octarines are a bit muted.

Hmm… Haven’t seen them since they first came out, my memory of them is vague, but might be worth a watch.

Can’t argue with that logic.

We recently threw the Fog on the list but know nothing about it beyond it being early John Carpenter. Didn’t even realize it was Stephen King.

Salem’s Lot is something I keep remembering exists and then forget to add to the list. Neither of us have seen it but I have a vague awareness of it.

I know my SO hated Carrie, so probably not something we’re watching together. I’ve never seen it, I’ve just seen the ten million things parodying it.

I completely forgot about Firestarter. I never saw the original, I think I saw the sequel that people hated, though all I remember is Dennis Hopper playing a guy who they establish sees the future with perfect clarity, and then immediately gets his predictions wrong.

I don’t completely object to family entertainment, as the good stuff is usually fun for adults too. But there’s also a big difference between the really good stuff and well, everything else. I mostly just wanted to avoid the Hocus Pocus, Hotel Transylvania, and “some random Disney channel crap from the 90s/2000s” that tend to pad out lists of non-horror Halloween movies.

My SO loves Coraline, I thought it was enjoyable enough. Although we watched it not long after watching They Live, which also has Keith David, which lead to a lot of joking about a scene mirroring the famous alley fight, but with buttons instead of sunglasses.

We watched Over the Garden Wall, liked the spooky parts, but wished the little brother would have been MIA for the entire series.

I know of Paranorman, I’ve had it on the list for a while, added when we felt like we were running out of options. Neither of us have seen it and we don’t know much about it, so it’s been a lower priority, but not ruled out.

Still have to watch The Shining first. It’s been sitting on the list for years but keeps getting bumped for something else at the last minute.

I love Army of Darkness. I’ve had Evil Dead II on the to watch list, but it has to wait for my SO to be in an adventurous enough mood since they’re more squeamish than I am.

From looks interesting. I’m curious how satisfying it is as a story. The premise seems like the kind of thing that would work best with a more stand alone story structure, so the fact that it has multiple seasons makes me worry about it either dragging on until it gets bad or getting cancelled without wrapping things up.

I have to ask, have you read Orconomics? It’s a parody of fantasy, gaming, and economics. I recommend it to anyone who likes Pratchett, and especially if you’re into the extremely specific niche of financial fantasy satire.