promoted by BooMan
Bwhahaha…good evening.
Tonight’s Chiller Theater features ghosts, evil madmen, and horrors previously unimaginable except by the most demented of minds.
Tonight I could not steal Bill in Portland Maine’s “swoosh” machine (like I do his Cheers & Jeers idea) for my favorite gargoyle refused to cross the picketline. The C&J Cafe snark union is definitely one you do not want to cross.
So instead I bring you a coffin recently acquired after a night of moonlit digging at the local cemetery…a coffin so new it is still occupied by a mouldering corpse.
I shall open it for you. <crrrrrreeeeaaaakkkkk>. WAIT A MINUTE. That’s not a decaying corpse! That’s conservative commentator Phyllis Schafly!
Join me on the jump.
Ah, forgive me. It was a gruesome corpse after all. It only resembled Schafly.
Let us resume our topic at hand. It is time for Chills & Thrills.
Thrills to Howard Peirce and his must read post on his car troubles and the wondrous people who helped him at a Volkswagon shop worthy of a Twilight Zone episode.
Thrills also to HP for his work at unifying the horror blog community. His post here
sparked a growing number of horror bloggers to find each other and link up: examples here; here; and here in Portugese.
Chills to Friday the 13th.
Chills to a Lawrence, Kansas hotel’s work on the elevators possibly driving out the ghosts. The ghosts asked for too many fresh sheets.
Thrills to witches dancing naked in the forests of Germany.
Chills to Salem, Mass., officials for turning up their noses at a statue of a witch known for having a very pretty nose.
Thrills to haunted real estate for sale.
Thrills to King Tut getting a new look. All bow to his royal highness.
Chills to world leaders giving us cause to wonder about what they do in the wood.
Thrills to this haunting portrait of the Vietnam War.
And, as always, saving the best for last
Thrills to Dracula Blogged.
From the about section:
This blog will publish Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the next six months. Individual pieces of the novel will appear on the calendar dates indicated in the text, starting with Jonathan Harker’s May 3rd Bistriz journal entry, and finishing up with November 6 and the final Note.
So what Chills & Thrills you tonight?
I voted Thrilling.
how come everyone says King Tut looks like Barbra Streisand?
They’re like the same age, right?
Hey Carnacki u know its funny to see/read Stoker’s old book again because now all those towns he mentions I KNOW them or where they are. And he uses all the old German names too..
For example “Bistriz” in your segment above is now “Bistrit(s)a”. There is a city named Bistrita, which is the capital of the judet (region/state) Bistrita-Nasaud.
I’m thrilling to a free concert down by the park today which was very nice 😉
Pax
You should join us in posting at the Dracula Blogged. There’s some great stuff in the comment threads. One of the world’s most foremost Dracula experts, Professor Elisabeth Miller, is posting in the comments.
witches dancing naked in the forests of say, West Virginia, go down?
I love the idea of the woods being alive with the sound of haunting melodies and naked women in the moonlight.
Ah, King Tut, you chinless wonder, how I wonder what killed ye.
Great, great VW story.
to being on call and sleep deprived all weekend…:(
With my new favorite summer (mid-May is close enough) cocktail:
the mango mojito
2 lime wedges
5 fresh mint leaves
1/4 c club soda
3 Tbsp (1.5 oz) rum
2 Tbsp simple syrup
1 Tbsp mango nectar
Squeeze limes in glass; add mint and squish with back of a spoon. Add simple syrup, let sit for a minute or two before adding the rum, club soda and mango nectar and ice. Yum!
Simple syrup = 1 c sugar + 1/2 c water; heat in saucepan until sugar dissolves. can store extra for next week!
Thrills to another lacrosse game this weekend, and hopefully being able to squeeze in an afternoon of kayaking this weekend (the weather be damned)!
Mmmm. Delicious
We mustn’t forget today’s premiere of “Monster-In-Law.”
J. Lo vs. J. Fo
Divas collide in Monster-in-Law.
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005, at 12:05 PM PT
Slate
I forgot that today was Friday the 13th, so when I saw your first graf
I figured you were talking about people like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.
“Jacob’s Ladder” with Tim Robbins
It is a series of nightmares within nightmares
and real life horror.
Based on the true story of the US military
testing the drug BZ on GI’s during the Vietnam
war. The rest is imaginary and very scary.