If you have an hour and a half to spare, enjoy a meat-free Friday! If not, I’m sure some other time would be a good time to go vegetarian.
Via @essrose
Via Boing Boing, a stop-motion music video starring G.I. Joes, set to Zombie Zombie, and inspired by John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Via VideoSift, a mashup of one of my favorite classic rock songs (I prefer the super extended versions) and classic Hammer horror:
If this doesn’t get you in the mood for Halloween, I don’t know what will!
Via Rue Morgue, a stop-motion silent film and bloodbath.
And, via jwz, another good installment in the series:
Via VideoSift, an examination of childhood psychosis and the transient nature of friendship:
Via Neatorama, the most awesomest training video EVAR. Seriously.
“One doesn’t even need to be handy in order to fix this.”
Oh, yeah!!! Shit just got real!!!!
I find it amazing that there exist places in the world where media like this is considered valid instructional technique.
I wish I lived in such a place.
This video is full of win: art, horror, animation, and cats. <3
Via The Presurfer
Previously, The Great Pumpkin cometh. Now, via ectomo, witness an even more maddeningly wonderful eldritch tale of childhood wholesome holiday specials gone horrific: The Great Old Pumpkin.
This quest led me into mouldering libraries, cramped basement antiquaries, far-flung correspondences, and, on one occasion, frightening and persistent telephone conversations with a lunatic in Boston. The last raised alarms in my family. I promised them I would turn away from my studies, all the while resolving to continue them in secret. I committed everything I knew to memory, burned all my papers, and embroidered my most unfathomable and precious secrets in near-invisible thread on my security blanket, which as you can see, I carry still.
My continued investigations led me to certain grim texts detailing eldritch and macabre sincerities—chants, autosacrifice, sinister configurations of pumpkins—which would bait the Great Old Pumpkin to my patch. On the Hallowmas Eve of two years ago, my investigations bore fruit, so to speak. I believe that I saw him—orange, flaming, and magnificent, hovering above me for an instant and then vanishing skyward into the constellations.
I can’t believe this has been around for years, and I’m just discovering it now.
You will almost certainly enjoy this more if you are cool enough to have previously read some Lovecraft, specifically, the Call of Cthulhu. Since it’s available for free online, why don’t you do that now?
I suppose that it’s equally important to have seen this at some point in the last decade. I suppose.
I really should start watching some TV, at least for stuff like Robot Chicken.
Via YesButNoButYes: