Thursday evening open thread

 

At this point, I'll be mulling over the meeting with our municipal and provincial representatives about our small neighbourhood issue. At the time of composing this post, I have no idea what they will have to say, but I kind of feel like I'm being called into the principal's office for a shellacking. I don't think it's that at all, in reality. It's more likely "Here's the deal we've been able to broker". We'll see.

Boone has been stealing from the counter again today. I don't want to crate him, but I may have to.

Blaurgh!Talk

 

Yup. It's one day shy of the weekend and time to kick out a little world-weary aggression. Let it all out, folks.

Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 

Goes great if you try to fit it between 2nd Breakfast and Elevenses.

Mercoledi OT – La Maschera del Demonio

The Mask of Satan, Mario Bava's first solo feature after working as an assistant and cinematographer for more than twenty years, is as lurid as you'd expect from the title. It must have been a shock to filmgoers in 1960. In the 60s, you might have watched a butchered version of it called Demon's Mask, Revenge of the Vampire, or House of Fright.

Pure Goth Princess Asa with hounds amidst the ruins of a church.

Mildly Scary Stories to Tell in the Semi-Gloom

Take a minute and tell me a story about a cursed household item or gadget you have or had, please, and maybe I'll tell you one too. Google maps seems to have it in for me. I mean, no matter where I go, I seem to end up right back where I started:

Found on Pinterest user Leslie Baker's page: "Students in Quebec were asked
to send their march route to the cops & they replied with this."

Tuesday Evening Post

 

What did they just read in grandfather Dr Frankenstein’s journal? Wrong answers only. 

Tuesday Haiku

 

Darkness speaks

A bat in flight

Flits through a thicket 

-Masaoka Shiki

Hiroshige

Toosdai OT 🧵

 

Welcome to another Tuesday. Any plans?

Lunedì sera OT – Il Demonio, Rondi, 1963. A Story as Old as Time.

By 1960, the Italian government had started relaxing some of its censorship laws under Mussolini. That year, Mario Brava released his debut feature, La Maschera del Demonio (The Mask of Satan), released in the US by Corman's group (AIP) as Black Sunday. If that incensed the conservative Italian Catholics, Il Demonio, the 1963 debut by Brunello Rondi, drove them completely round the bend, leading to its censorship. Why?

Daliah Lavi as Purif