Movies

Over the last couple of weeks, green_trilobite's been playing his collection of 1950s and '60s SF movie classics - yesterday we watched Them!, which like George Pal's War of the Worlds has a script that takes into account that monsters are scarier when their victims don't fall through stupidity.

Anyway, I did a little sketch of one of the scientist characters (who dons a more practical outfit a few scenes later, but I sort of like the image of her in her 1950s suit and hat, and protective goggles). I've submitted a larger one as a possible cover for Sol Rising (the Friends of the Merril's newsletter.)

Right now we're watching The Time Machine, which has some good scenes, but I can't help but wonder: who cuts and styles the Eloi's hair? I can't see the Morlocks allowing them to have scissors, except maybe those little blunt kindergarten ones. OK, Weena's just asked how the women of the Wells' time wore their hair, so I guess she's interested. He has no idea, just a vague sense that women wore their hair "up." One person's frivolity is another one's technical skill.

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Given that this "H. P. Lovecraft, advice columnist" piece has been doing the rounds, I thought I'd post a bit of Lovecraft parodying himself in letters to a friend:

To Clark Ashton Smith

Onyx Sea-Cliffs of Kho --
Hour when low tide bares that daemon-carven reef wherefrom men avert their glance …
June 14, 1933
Dear Klarkash-Ton: -- ( Read more... )

Keeping Austin Weird

Willie Nelson unveils statue of himself. Pretty good likeness too.