Backtalk: A Medium Place
Happy Halloween, all.
As I've said before, we don't get many/any kids on my street, so I don't expect tonight to be any different. I have seen a lot of people in costume (including my chiropractor, who dressed up as a lemur), and I saw something large and bright green moving past the bottom of street where there's a high school. No idea what that was.
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| Deborah Kerr is Miss Giddens in The Innocents (61). Adapted by Truman Capote from the play, The Turn of the Screw by William Archibald, directed by Jack Clayton. If you're USian, you might have seen Clayton's big screen adaptations of The Great Gatsby ('74) and Something Wicked This Way Comes* ('83), but perhaps not his British films. |
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| "One does not simply wok those one murders." o |
Barren branches
The autumn left behind
The cicadas hollow cry.
-Kagai
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| Kawanabe Kyosai |
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Hello and welcome to Fur Face Friday, where we vicarious our way to the weekend through the world of cute. Last week’s critters were full of shenanigans and this week’s are full of sass.
Mimi Krimi’s Alice does NOT appreciate you not sticking to the schedule.
It's turned into a nice bright, but cold day; I had to break out the winter coat to walk the dog. Cleared a file box of bills. Some are now filed, and some will be shredded. Made a dental appointment for a check up, and called my credit union to see if the 2025 pocket planners are in (they are). In addition to getting my blood work done this morning, I think that's a fair bit done.
What about everyone else?
Hey, Mr Vampire I–IV are on the Criterion Channel. YESSSSSSSSS. My evening plans are set. Shame they don't have Mr Vampire 1992 or Encounters of the Spooky Kind I and II, but I'll take it..
Mornings keep happening whether we want them to or not. Fight the system. Break out of the prison of your own mind.
•Knock knock!
-Who’s there?
•Nosferatu
-Nosferatu who?
Fill in the last line of the joke…
My hour draws near and I am still alive
Drawn by the chains of death I take my leave
The king of Hades has decreed tomorrow I shall be his slave.
-Seisetsu Shucho
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| Katsukawa Shunsho |
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| I can't think of anything which isn't just horrible and filthy. I'll just caption it as "Dr Shirigami, pollinated" |
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Welcome to another edition of Fur Face Friday! Last week the fur faces were on their best behavior. This week they showed us their mischievous side.
k2b caught this herd of bison trying to pass themselves off as cows.
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| The nerve of some creatures |
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.
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.
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| Pure Goth Princess Asa with hounds amidst the ruins of a church. |
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:
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| 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." |
What did they just read in grandfather Dr Frankenstein’s journal? Wrong answers only.
