Moe Lane's Blog, page 180
September 10, 2024
09/10/2024 Snippet, THE LAST DAYS OF UNHOLY TOLEDO.
Inside the walls!
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Inside was chaos, and license. Everywhere the three looked, the minions and the hanger-ons of the See of Iniquity were indulging in every vice known to humanity, and a few unique to Unholy Toledo. There was shouting, and killing, and revelry enough for twice the number of people cavorting in the space between the walls and the Fane, and even this late at night the bonfires were lit, making the scene flicker in a grotesque alternation between greasy shadows, and the pitiless firelight of Hell.
It was well-known that to carry a weapon openly without leave in the Whore’s Fane was to volunteer to be thrown from its highest spire. But on this night nobody challenged them, or even seemed to notice. “Where are the guards?” Nat muttered. “Not that I miss them.”
“The smart ones fled, and the unlucky ones were caught and slain for treason,” shrugged the Monsignor. “The very unlucky ones will be flogged towards the foe when the Babylon Gate is breached. But they will not be at their posts, which is all either of you should care about. Follow me, and stay close! Even now, my presence will keep the prying eyes of this rabble safely averted.”
Tweet of the Day, The New PS5 Pro Doesn’t Come With A CD Drive, Either edition.
…Wait, what? I know, I know: the young people don’t buy physical media anymore. The young people also don’t have seven hundred bucks to throw at a platform, and the people that do don’t want to buy new copies of all their old games.
SEVEN HUNDRED US DOLLARYDOOS
— Kaleb (@KalebPrime) September 10, 2024
SEVEN HUNDRED UK BONGAROOS
EIGHT HUNDRED YUROPS
ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN THOUSAND AND NINE HUNDREDS EIGHTY WEEBUX
Vertical Stand sold separately pic.twitter.com/rac61AcD4t
Seriously, folks, just buy a dang PC. Most of the games will end up there anyway and you can use it for other things, too.
(Via pretty much everyone)
#commissionearned
The BORDERLANDS Honest Trailer.
To quote James Lileks: this was a labor of hate. On the bright side, any urge I had to watch BORDERLANDS is really dead, now. I even hesitated to put up the link.
But only hesitated. Who knows? You might click the link, and while you’re there not buying it something else might show up that you will buy. The grind is the grind.
#commissionearned
Doing postage on the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION 2 Kickstarter rewards.
Can’t mail them out today, because scheduling stuff, but I could calculate postage, so I did. …Oof. I knew it was going to be this bad, and I even budgeted it to be this bad, but seeing the money drain from my accounts still hurt like the dickens. I very well may have to raise my shipping rates for the next Kickstarter, and I am absolutely going to continue not having a foreign option. I’m sorry about that, but the fees are too damned high, and people can get the books locally.
If you did miss the Kickstarter, feel free to purchase TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 2: LIGHTS IN THE DARKNESS directly!
#commissionearned
@HPLHS’s THE CALL OF CTHULHU and THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS now available on Tubi for free.
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a bit. THE CALL OF CTHULHU / THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS are the HPL Historical Society’s forays into filmmaking, and both are excellent reproductions of Lovecraft’s stories (people seem to like the first one better*, but I enjoy them both). Tubi has them up for free, but you’ll have to deal with ads. Such is life.
Moe Lane
PS: One of the conceits of the productions is that they are filmed as if they came out the same time as the stories were written. That’s why CoC (1926) was done as a silent film (which had the happy result of making it actually filmable**), and WiD (1930/1931) is more of a classic Thirties monster film. Check them out!
*Probably because the WiD movie had to add stuff to make it into a full-length film. They didn’t butcher the story, mind you, and the HPLHS has to do this for their*** DARTs anyway.
**Filming literally indescribable things is probably always going to be beyond the reach of special effects, so the deliberately retro style undoubtedly helps.
***Technically it’s our DARTs, since I’m a proud lifetime member of the Society. However, I had nothing to do with any of the productions, so it feels weird to write that.
September 9, 2024
‘Massacre of Glencoe.’
Massacre of Glencoe, Brigid Mhairi
#commissionearned
For the record: I *will* be using November to finish BANSHEE BEACH.
I just don’t think that NaNoWriMo is a suitable thing to do it under, anymore. It’s not really the AI thing, honestly: I don’t care for AI-prompt generated material, I won’t buy it, but otherwise it’s not my problem. It’s the fact that last year strong allegations were made that NaNoWriMo was being used for some hinky stuff involving minors, and I’m not really comfortable referencing that organization anymore. I’ve never officially signed up for it, I don’t think, but I’ve still referenced the ‘contest’ often.
So now I need a new name for it for November.
The WOLF MAN teaser trailer.
I really need to go watch the INVISIBLE MAN remake they did a while back. I heard that it was good. WOLF MAN doesn’t look half bad, either, although I’d like to see some actual wolf men sometimes, if you know what I mean? Although I guess it wouldn’t be that much of a horror flick. When the moon is full, he turns into a wolf! Which means he immediately goes somewhere there’s no humans, and eats a deer or something.
Yeah. Riveting cinema, that.
#commissionearned
The Hit The Ground Running Kickstarter.
Hit The Ground Running “is the first novel in an intended series of near-future crime capers, written by the creator of the Kickstarter-funded comic Widdershins!” That would be Kate Ashwin, who draws the aforementioned excellent webcomic; and the cover was drawn by Ben Fleuter, who absolutely needs to be swamped with as many lucrative commissions as he can personally handle. No AI, no slave labor involved in the production. Hopefully there’ll be an American distributor, because international shipping is murder these days…
RIP, James Earl Jones.
Ninety three is a good run, and ‘revered’ is not an exaggeration. My prayers and condolences to his family and loved ones.
James Earl Jones, the revered actor who voiced ‘Star Wars’ villain Darth Vader, starred in ‘Field Of Dreams’ and many other films and is an EGOT winner, died this morning at his home in Dutchess County, NY. He was 93.
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 9, 2024
Read about his life and legacy here: https://t.co/1W4hr3rLQ2 pic.twitter.com/a4NuRTR0P1
Via @baseballcrank.
