Pic o'the Day

Been a while since I posted one of these, so here's the poster for Alejandro Jodorowsky's sacrilegious, bizarre, and profound 1973 film The Holy Mountain. One of the best films by one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. "I promised you the great secret and I will not disappoint you. Is this the end of our adventure? Nothing has an end. We came in search of the secret of immortality, to be immortal like the Gods and here we are, mortals, more human than ever. If we have not obtained immortality at least we have obtained reality. We began in a fairy tale and we came to life, but is this life reality? No, it is a film. Zoom back camera. We are images, dreams, photographs. We must not stay here prisoners. We shall break the illusion. This is Maja. Goodbye to the Holy Mountain. Real life awaits us."

Happy Wold Newton Day!

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Happy birthday, Sherlock Holmes

Hope you're having a great 158th with Watson, Mycroft, Mrs. Hudson, and all your other loved ones.

Happy Wold Newton Day!

Echo Homo (Superior)

"...[W]e know, you must remember, that homo sapiens has little more to contribute to the music of this planet, nothing in fact but vain repetition. It is time for finer instruments to take up the theme."
-John Wainwright, Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest by Olaf Stapledon (1935)

"The Earth is a bitch; we've finished our news. Homo sapiens have outgrown their use. All the strangers came today; and it looks as though they're here to stay."
-David Bowie, "Oh! You Pretty Things", Hunky Dory (1971)

"We are the future, Charles, not them. They no longer matter."
-Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer (2000)

Pics o'the Day (Kirby-style)

To celebrate the 94th birthday of the late, great Jack Kirby, here's some artwork featuring the first appearances of some of his most famous creations:

Tooting My Own Horn

My first book review for the awesome website She Never Slept is up, the subject being David Michael's groovy post-apocalyptic horror novel The Summoning Fire. Thanks to SNS' head, the incomparable Sarah L. Covert, for being kind enough to host (and provide C&C!) on my writing! Enjoy, folks!