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Countdown to Cthulhu: U Got the (Innsmouth) Look

"Some of 'em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, stary eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain't quite right."
--H. P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"

I recently posed a question to a few friends in the Pulped Culture Facebook group: Which celebrities have the Innsmouth look? Here are a few of the suggestions that came back:


Jack Black


Christina Ricci


Steve Buscemi


Don Knotts


Gloria Swanson


Peter Lorrie


Edward G. Robinson


Dave Grohl


Michael Berryman


Laura Bush


Clint Howard


Amanda Seyfried


Jimmy Page (lately. It sets in with age...)


Boris Karloff


Tor Johnson


Hopfrog. ;)

(Thanks to Aeion Solar, David W. Fenderson, Jack Dawkins, and Joe Pulver for their suggestions.)

Can you think of others?

"Here we are folks, the dream we all dream of..."
Listen for the Eldritch shriek at 3:15:


Prince Sheena Easton U Got the Look by docfromcpt

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"The YetiStomper Debut of the Month, Southern Gods, is Chicken Fried Lovecraft - sheer terror breaded in mystery and malice and deep fried in the muggy backwoods of 1960s Arkansas. I dare you to take a bite and walk away without wanting more." --Stomping on Yeti



Makes you wanna put on some good music, pull up a chair, and dig in, right?


(Can't see the video? Click here.)

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Countdown to Cthulhu: Brought to you by the letter D

Today's installment has been brought to you by the letter D. D for Dagon.

I recently re-watched Stuart Gordon's 2001 film Dagon, an inspired, if problematic, adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth. Thematically more faithful to its source than Gordon's Re-Animator or From Beyond, Dagon relocates Innsmouth from New England to Imboca, Spain, preserving Lovecraft's atmosphere of dread and aesthetic of manifested moral decay, but adding to it Gordon's trademark titillation and gore.

Dagon suffers from an uncharismatic male lead and a number of CGI effects that don't quite work. But really, that doesn't matter, because Dagon is all about


(Spoiler warning) She also rather resembles the Starbucks logo:

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Sexy. Just the kind of girl you'd like to ask out for coffee and fish flakes, right?



"Coffee? I'd love to."



So if you've got a touch of the Innsmouth look, or you find batrachian girls kind of hot (you know who you are), Dagon comes recommended. As does this T-shirt.



Here's Lovecraftian surf-punk band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, with their hit song, "The Innsmouth Look" (it charted--with a bullet--in Imboca). Sing along!


(Can't see the video? Click here.)

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Adult Beverage: Rubicon Hopsauce Double IPA

A nice, long walk this morning, followed by an exciting drive in Randy's Jeep (which I totally plan to avoid driving in the future--no left arm space unless you hang out the window like a leadfooted Big Daddy Roth monster). A little bit of grocery shopping. Retail therapy. La Hacienda for dinner. I needed a cheese enchilada. Time to kick it: KCSM, a manuscript, and an adult beverage. Tonight, I'm cracking open a Rubicon Hopsauce Double IPA. Hopsauce? Promising.

Rubicon Hopsauce Double IPA pours a glowing rust-orange, but is about as headless as a Hessian horseman. Not much lacing, either: an occasional comma, semicolon, or em-dash. Pine resin and grapefruit peel on the nose. Sweet and malty up front. Complex citrus, pine, and toasted cereals. Medium mouthfeel, but a bit flat. Could stand brighter carbonation. Bitter kicks in as Hopsauce passes your molars, stinging your uvula as it goes down. And it's a lasting, astringent bitter, too. Hopsauce is pleasantly saucy, but has a brutally bitter bite. Plan accordingly.

Spotted while walking: "Put your booty where it counts."

Also spotted: "Darn suburban zombies."

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