Post by edwardlee on Oct 5, 2023 21:24:36 GMT
Hi, all. The latest in my odd life is that on Sept 22 I had a “sqaumous” cyst surgically removed from my right arm. It’s cancerous but not serious, looked like the planet in Eraserhead. When nurses were prepping me, one inadvertently pressed her hand into my crotch. Now, insignificant and errant contact such as this is no big deal to the average person, but to a 66 year old man...it made my month! The surgeon’s name was–I’m not making this up–Dr. Payne. I only hope his first name wasn’t Excruciating. The stitches get taken out next Wednesday, Maybe I’ll get Dr. Agony this time. There’s a bunch of cool movies I’‘ve seen recently: Nightmare (from Norway but a bummer ending), Wounds, Lullaby, Realm of Souls. No One Will Save you was fantastic: alien burglars! Tomorrow night Shudder will release VHS 85, and I can’t friggin’ wait! Finished John Baltisberger’s No Guilt for Bloodshed, and it really is awesome, sort of a hardcore demonic western. What a great movie it would make. I’m also in the middle of rereading Fritz Leiber’s “Horrible Imaginings.” It remains one of my favorite modern novellas and a cool follow-up (sort of) to Leiber’s masterpiece novel Our Lady of Darkness. Both are set in the same apartment building in the Mission District (sort of). In the late 90s I saw the actual building Leiber lived in when he was writing it (The Union Hotel) and it’s as creepy as the novel. (It’s a transient domicile now, I think). Also reread Machen’s The Great God Pan (much better now than I remember it, The White People (not as captivating as I remember it, The Novel of the Black Seal (so brilliant I wanna rip it off and write a modern version), and The Novel of the White Powder (kind of cool but I think Machen was trying but not quite succeeding to top Poe’s M. Valdimar. I suspect Lovecraft paid homage to both stories in “Cool Air.” I’m also still surfing through Nympho Shark F*** Fest (all 123000 words!) And it’s a blast. My novella The Bighead’s Junk is 10k words so far, and I’m ashamed of myself. Have a great weekend!
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EL
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EL