Month: March 2022

This linked article begins with the following statement: “A new paper on ancient DNA (aDNA) posits that every person on the planet is descended from hunter-gatherers in Africa”. This is news? I thought that was already the accepted theory. “The researchers looked at ancient DNA from as far back as 18,000 years ago. This information,…

We reported last week that the demonic nine-tailed fox spirit had escaped the boulder in which it had been imprisoned. Reading up on this occurrence, I gained some education concerning Tamamo-no-Mae itself/herself. It’s a fascinating bit of folklore. (Folklore with a capital F if we’re talking about the subject as an area of study, which…

So is this good news or bad news? It shouldn’t affect the fans too much in any negative way, unless Amazon insists on shunting all its new acquisitions off to livestreaming instead of going theatrical with them. Otherwise I’d say it’s very good news, indeed, since Amazon has professed the desire to go back to…

You can find plenty of photographs of Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman in color just by doing a quick google search. Most of the ones you’ll find, though, are original black-and-whites that have been colorized. According to legend—and Pinterest—there is only one extant color photograph of Chaney in the Wolfman makeup that was taken…

Blaine stepped into the apartment, flipped on the light and locked the door behind him. The answering machine beeped as if in greeting. That meant he had messages. Maribelle? he wondered, hoped, but doubted it. She was still pissed at him. *If I could just talk to her.* He hadn’t been able to concentrate at…

We’re ready to start having some fun in collaboration with The Kreeps project and become part of Kreepville! Join us and help build our community together with true fans of Vampires and Werewolves. We’re planning to have fun scary battles with Vampires vs. Werewolves. The Kreepville universe is the perfect location for our upcoming NFT…

From the journal of Maribelle Tate: I’m glad I sent Blaine packing. I think Adam might have killed him for yelling at me. Blaine is right on that one account. Adam is WAY too attached to me. Judi, too, but not as much. He wants to be around me all the time. Like Mister Jones…

The Netflix series is not your typical television show. It really isn’t a television show at all; I don’t consider any livestreaming series to be “television” even though you watch it on a television set. You can watch YouTube videos on a television set, too, but that doesn’t make it TV. Hair-splitting aside, though, your…

That score for Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN is just amazing, like everything else about that movie. Michael Giacchino served as the composer, and he certainly proved his mettle as a musician. He’s never directed anything before, though. Directing and composing music are way different things. Still, we’ve seen neophyte directors, folks with no experience at…

My gut tells me this isn’t going to work. Even though it’s going to be a Hammer production. (Hammer is relaunching, apparently. I wasn’t aware it had un-launched, but come to think of it, they haven’t done anything in a while. I don’t regard the Hammer of today as the same as the classic Hammer…