supergee | Entries tagged with horror

H.P. Lovecraft Writes Olive Garden’s Dinner Menu [McSweeney's]

The Laundry Files

Thanx to Tor.com.

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Horror Movie Ice Cream [iHorror]

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Yesterday’s post about the possibility of fake celebrity porn was insufficiently grim. Charlie Stross does it right.

Thanx to Charlie's Diary

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Beware the Internet of Things

Thanx to Schneier on Security

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Sense of nameless dread about UK economy mostly due to new non-Euclidean pound coin

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The London Beer Tsunami

and

What the babycam saw (sick stuff from HealthyWay)

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We’re living in a satirical dystopia when I would much prefer Urban Fantasy, specifically the Republicans generating from their deranged imaginings about a real person an actual Vengeful Monster. Yes,
KILLARY!!!
Mastermind of Benghazi! Telekinetic Murderer of Vince Foster! Able to Destroy a Nation with E-Mails! Of course she would have all the monstrous powers men have always feared in women, from blighting the crops to laughing at one’s mighty sword. I would be happy to be Her votary.

ETA: It would be even more fun if Killary had a faithful sidekick: Vagenda of Manocide.

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I have suspected that I was trapped in a satirical dystopia ever since I was a small child at Harrison Bergeron Elementary School. I read Catch-22, and the next thing I knew my government was trying to draft me into it, with the additional refinement that at least the original was set in a war it made sense for us to be in. Now I find myself ensnared in the saga of a supervillain named Donald Trump.

At first I thought he was merely Guy Grand, the wealthy sociopath protagonist of Terry Southern’s The Magic Christian, who perpetrates cruel pranks to “make it hot for them,” ending with perhaps overly literalized metaphor as people attempt to dig currency out from under vast quantities of blood, urine, and feces.

Now it seems worse, as if I am trapped in a real-life reality show where the buffoon who played a successful businessman on television is attempting to be promoted to Acting President.

Or maybe it’s The Manchurian Candidate, and one of those Eastern European wives drugged and hypnotized him. It started as a diabolical Commie plot to discredit Capitalism by gaming the system so that someone with neither intelligence nor personal charm could become wealthy. (Or perhaps they didn’t have to.) Now he is poised for even greater destruction.

I always was overly optimistic, like that alleged Barry Malzberg story that was bounced from the Bacigalupi-Watts Depressing SF anthology for being too upbeat. The last dangerous vision is that somehow he is elected and Vladimir Putin hurls a familiar epithet. President Trump steps over to The Button and shows that his finger really is long enough.

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Groundhog sees Jungian shadow, predicts everlasting winter of the soul

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Dick Sheckley’s satirical Fifties sf story about a dystopian world where people can perform complex computer programs inadvertently, by bumping into things.

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Eleanor Rigby: the Horror Version. When the song came out, I thought of cobbling up a fake Spoon River gravestone for her and claiming the Beatles stole it, but I hadn't heard of fandom and didn't have an audience.

Thanx to

andrewducker

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Happy 125th, H. P. Lovecraft, where- and whatever you are.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

ETA: And he is remembered.

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Lehman Brothers is a zombie. It's dead, but it keeps doing harm. Specifically, it eats brains, preying on universities. I have long suspected that I am living in dystopian satire, but I always thought zombies were scientifically implausible horror.