Xmas ghosts are stirring

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anthologist of Victorian Christmas ghost stories local historian and gravestone conservationist H. C. Dodge & shape poem collector

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Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· 21d

Odd detail from fiery explosion in Carrie trailer, unidentifiable text above a red arch at a doorway.

Bizarre tall skinny orange statue with lampshade hat praying over what might be bike racks.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· 29d

I saw this in North Kingston, Rhode Island. A whole wall!

AI slop wallpaper depicting a soda fountain/ice cream shop, with glass jars labeled with gibberish, ginormous sundaes with a multitude of odd sticks stuck into them and one that might be a bowl of organ meat.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Jul 7

Sheet music covers for "I'm a Dandy But I'm No Dude" and "I
t's Dudish, You Know."

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Jul 3

"Ten Little Fingers," 1880s, might have originally appeared in the Detroit Free Press:

Ten Little Fingers

Ten little fingers toying with a mine—
Bang! went the powder, and then there were nine.

Nine little fingers fixing rockets straight—
Zip! a kick backward, and then there were eight.

Eight little fingers pointing up to heaven—
Roman candle "busted," and then there were seven.

Seven little fingers, punk and powder mix—
Punk was ignited, and then there were six.

Six little fingers for a "sizzer" strive—
One went off with it, and then there were five.

Five little fingers loading for a roar—
Boom! went the cannon, and then there were four.

Four little fingers with a pack made free—
Crash! went a cracker, and then there were three.

Three little fingers found the fuse burned blue—
Bombshell too previous, and then there were two.

Two little fingers having lots of fun—
Pistol exploded, and then was one.

One little finger, fooling with a gun—
Didn't know 'twas loaded, and then there was none.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· May 16

Not my meme but funny

"X change my mind" sign at table in park, figure sitting behind it hand raised, mug and papers on table. Reads "I've never been to Marienbad CHANGE MY MIND" with b&w Delphine Seyrig head photoshopped onto figure.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· May 13

"This is my body," he said, "and this is how many servings you may have, along with such other facts as you may need."

Cropped version of a painting of Christ flanked by disciples, wine before him, holding bread, Nutrition Facts photoshopped into his upright hand.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· May 11

Awful digital collage in Apple Preview. #oliveart

Photograph of round green watermelon, cropped photo of canned cranberry sauce shrunken and put on the watermelon, black lines around canned cranberry sauce to suggest it was placed in a hole in the watermelon.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· May 10

These ones not directed by women. Old e-mail I'd sent to a friend: "gendery scifi TV episodes and films" February 17, 2012 at 12:13 AM

"Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Outcast (#5.17)" (1992)
While aiding an androgynous race who lost a couple of members in an unmapped region of space, Riker falls for one of them, which can lead to trouble if detected, since the alien race does not endorse gender specificity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708815/

I Hate My Body (1974)
The brain of a man... the body of a woman... the sexual horror story of our time!
The brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female's body. He soon finds it very frustrating to cope with the daily sexist discrimination most women deal with. For example, he is surprised when no one will hire a female engineer. When he is faced with dealing with female sexuality, he quickly begins exhibiting lesbian tendencies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070467/

Taking Tiger Mountain (1983)
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and the USA has been invaded.
It is noted that after the thermonuclear war, a degree shift in the earth's axis has caused environmental breakdowns, and there is even a dilution of human gene pools due to the fact that the balance of the sexes has tipped, so much so that men are easily grafted (by choice or under duress, depending on situations) into women, and vice versa.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086409/

TTM, an adult movie written by William S. Burroughs, shot in Morocco and Wales, starring Bill Paxton?! Bwaaaa…!?

Interview with TTM director: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBp41fvsOA&

Willis, Donald C. Horror and Science Fiction Films III. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1984:
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http://books.google.com/books?id=HqzC5HaCupYC&pg=PA268

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· May 1

Jeepers. kingstonecomics.com/cdn/shop/fil...

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· May 1

It's not alone.

Cover of The Declaration America250 Comic book, bunch of guys in 18th century clothing casting their shadows on a giant Constitution they're looking at, an odd giant American flag above them.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 30

And yet I'm not sure that's dialog from any movie. Possibly he's remembering his casino days, when someone might get 86'd from a table, & his own mob ties from those days, & he's getting things all mixed up. There's maybe one book with the murder meaning but it's an outlier w/unsourced entries.

screencap:
eighty-six. To murder someone or put an end to something, as in "Eighty-six him. I don't want to see him again."
Hendrickson, Robert. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins. 2008.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 29

Doonesbury comic strip cigarette character (face and Mickey Mouse gloves) against purple and red background saying "Hi, There! Mr. Butts here!"

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 29

ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/zip-code...

postal zone numbers brooklyn, 2 digit codes

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 27

Odds seem good that he needed to have it explained to him first that she & his Macdonald triad offspring were not actually there. Should probably also mention that this man who often appeared on British and American television is not actually a military official charged with policing silliness.

Graham Chapman as The Colonel from Monty Python's Flying Circus

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 23

Using other people's lists (that one's not mine) is handy. It shows you the percentage you've watched on others' lists, can fade out ones you've watched if you want, etc.

1000 Women in Horror Companion List by Wiccaburr on Letterboxd, showing some movies faded out (user has seen) and percentage of the total list watched.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 23

Sailors famously on the lookout for troublesome witches.

Gold Key comic cover, Popeye the Sailor. He's punching out a giant, long-necked bird, as the Sea Hag standing on a beach looks frustrated in the background. Captioned "The Sea Hag creates a spinach shortage to get Popeye in her power!"

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 22

Chris and Bezoar the cat

Closeup of cat's face on throw on top of bearded man

cat on side on carpet, looking somewhat up, tail high across floor, paws all spread, one toe hooked on carpet

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 13

Book will be one that I'll be buying! Do love Curse of the Blair Witch, Shadow of the Blair Witch, Burkittsville 7, Sticks and Stones: Investigating the Blair Witch and yes the soundtrack too (and Book of Shadows). Funnily enough never could get into BWP itself.

Cover for The Blair Witch Project Josh's Blair Witch Mix: An Absent Soundtrack Found book by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, white text on red, b&w closeup of stickman and Heather's face, from Channel Academic a BearManor imprint.

Small collection of soundtracks for horror movies directed by women from American Psycho to Trouble Every Day, Teiji Ito's Music for Maya, and (because of the fictional woman director of a horror documentary in the film) The Blair Witch Project: Josh's Blair Witch Mix, and Greetings from Burkittsville by Sisyphus.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 10

They have NO CARDS! No cards except ONE: controlling the Strait of Hormuz! And also being better at handling the media! TWO cards, they have TWO cards! Controlling the Strait of Hormuz, handling media, and PR. THREE cards, only three cards!

Michael Palin as Cardinal Ximénez in Monty Python’s Flying Circus' "Spanish Inquisition" sketch

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Apr 1

People who don't belong to that church really seem to like the building and its location.

Church at sunset image from https://www.venedocia.org/salem/churcpic.html

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 25

Soylent Green thanatorium, a large screen, a reclined bed in front of it, the top of the back of a head seen on the bed that is facing the screen

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 21

"Epigraphs" by John Robert Colombo, 1977. Claudian: He who terrifies another is himself in continual fear.

EPIGRAPHS

Edmund Burke:
Things which are terrible are always great.

Claudian:
He who terrifies another
is himself in continual fear.

Miguel de Cervantes:
Fear has many eyes.

Virgil:
Horror everywhere alarms the soul,
and the very stillness is terrifying also.

Spanish Proverb:
What is evil lives forever.

English Proverb:
Every monster hath its multitudes

J.B.S. Haldane:
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine;
it is stranger than we can imagine.

Nathanael West:
Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
Colombo, John Robert. Mostly Monsters. Hounslow Press, 1977.
https://archive.org/details/mostlymonsters0000colo/page/n13/mode/2up

François de la Rochefoucauld:
There are heroes of evil
no less than of good.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
Only the fantastic
is likely to be true
at the cosmic level.

James H. Nicholson:
Each time our monster
got his deserts,
we had actually enacted
a modern version
of the medieval morality play.
We had filmed Everyman.

Madame du Deffand:
Do I believe in ghosts?
No, but I am afraid of them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Do I believe in ghosts?
I have seen too many to believe in them.

Edgar Allan Poe:
Terror is not of Germany,
but of the soul.

Kenneth Tynan:
Assume the miracle:
assume the advent of a masterpiece.
There it crouches, a pink-eyed,
many-muscled, salivating monster.
Who shall harness it?

Jean Cocteau:
Astonish me!

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 21

Alive... and killing it! Appreciated the 1000 Women in Horror documentary by @horrornonna.com very much - hoping now for physical media and a sequel!

1000 Women in Horror 1895-2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas paperback book spine, horizontal (ex-library: shame on the county library for parting with it!)
above it A-B movies directed by women on blu-ray, DVD, and VHS: ABCs of Death Volume 2, Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Amazing Transplant, Amer, up to Banshee and Beauty Queen Butcher. Also seen: Deadly Advice, Deadly Dreams, Deadly Lessons, Death Games, Death in Small Doses.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 20

The name doesn't appear to have been indicative of his ancestry, just someone the family was honoring. But yeah, bad politics.

Against All Odds By Chuck Norris
Mom and Dad took me home to the farm where Dad worked, in Ryan, Oklahoma, a small town not far from the Texas border, about a two-hour drive from Dallas. The name on my birth certificate is Carlos Ray Norris. I was named in honor of Reverend Carlos Berry, my family's minister in Ryan. My middle name, Ray, is in honor of my father.
Genetically speaking, I am equal parts Irish and Native American.
On the Norris side, my paternal grandfather was Irish, and my paternal grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. My mother's family name was Scarberry. My maternal grandmother, Agnes, was Irish, while my maternal grandfather was a Cherokee Indian from Kentucky.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 18

Some of the reading for #WiHM : Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-on-Video Horror Directed by Women and it can't rain all the time: the crow by @alishamgl.bsky.social I've seen 60% of the movies in the former. letterboxd.com/kevbonesy/li...

Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-on-Video Horror Directed by Women and it can't rain all the time. the crow by alisha mughal on a wood counter. The former is colorful, showing color bars and an illustration of a redhead with a pink hoodie and a video camera, pizza, life preserver, VHS tape emerging from her head. The latter is a black cover with black, white, and grey text.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 15

search your camera roll for hell Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." The American Crisis. December 19, 1776.

photo of printouts on a table of transcriptions of letters and texts by John Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Mar 3

I'm sure it would be fine!

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
meme
Kent Brockman from The Simpsons, inset of Bender from Futurama and other robots

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Feb 26

Gallup says "We think you may enjoy being one of the first to be polled by an Al interviewer." The polling company is very wrong about that!

GALLUP®
GALLUP PANEL - BE HEARD
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If you agree to take part in this study, you will receive a phone call inviting you to a short survey about several current topics. During that call, you will be asked some questions by the Al interview system. It should take you about 15 minutes to
complete the phone interview.
If you choose to participate, Gallup will send you a $5 reward (500 points) after completing the telephone survey.
Because this research is so important, we're first asking you to complete a short survey right now to consent to take part in this study, and to update your contact information so that we can reach you with more information.
TAKE SURVEY

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Feb 24

FREE GIRLS IN OVERALLS
Judge Condones Snowball Fight, Admitting It's Fine Sport.
Kansas City, Dec. 21.—As Patrolman Lowden was walking his beat about 1 o'clock in, the morning he came upon four people, running throwing and making considerable noise. Just then a well-directed snowball knocked off his cap. He rushed to the enemy and found two young men and two young ladies, the latter masquerading in overalls, taking all four to the police station.
"Judge, snowball fights are all the rage in Decatur," declare Miss Ryan, one of the snowball artists in police court. "We put on overalls because skirts are too heavy, and we can't get around. We were not hurting anyone. Just had a little party at our house, and it ended in a snow fight.'
"And fine sport it is," said Judge Welch. "You are discharged."
Hammondsport Herald. December 23, 1914: 1 col 1.

Xmas ghosts are stirring@toffph· Feb 11

Curious now! Morton's "The Bed of Love" (1898) page 66 here from The Adult: The Journal of Sex: www.google.com/books/editio... and transcribed here www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poet... But it's clearly not one of the more explicit, wherever they may have appeared.