Come on, Graeme...I just know you know better than that.
I've always felt that gawker sites don't really qualify as journalism, and the above sloppiness is one reason why: even the so-called "professional contributors" can't consistently summon proper grammar of even the simplest sort.
Not only is "out've" not a contraction of two words you would put together, it isn't even shorter than the two words it ostensibly replaces ("out of"). How utterly daft.
It is difficult to sustain respect for this site when its content sometimes reads like it is composed by learning-challenged 4th graders. Hey, Analee, who edits the editors?
And I liked the Muffy stories, tho before he died, Geo. got very tired of being asked about them; I think he was upset that they were more well-known and talked about than his years of serious work.
@Belabras: I liked the author's note that went with it, where he talked about being at a con and drinking beers and he and Whoever It Was he was with (it escapes me) starting to say things in a deep Cockney accent like, "Wot? That frightful soul and messenger of infinity's Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep?"
@braak: "Oooooh. My name's braak! I'm soooo smart!"
what, no love for Lovecraftian text adventure, "The Lurking Horror"? not to mention webcomic Penny Arcade's undying fawning and devotion, best displayed in "The Last Christmas" series.
Lovecraft and gaming: two abominable things that are otherworldly together!
I've always felt there was a kind of similarity between Lovecraft's themes and Philip K Dick's. They both had the themes of "reality fails" and fated protagonist in their works.
And Lovecraft did do science fiction. "Shadow Out of Time," is a good example of this. Actually a lot of his stories had science fictional themes, disembodied brains, bizarre aliens bent on global conquest, bizarre hyperspatial physics, etc.
Of course back then the genres weren't so clearly defined. The phrase science fiction hadn't even been invented yet. It all seems sort of steampunkish to us now but, according to ST Joshi a leading scholar of Lovecraft's works, Lovecraft's later stuff began to read more and more like straight SF. Many of Lovecraft's stories predate themes commonly found in UFO abduction stories, involving bizarre creatures, dreamlike, nightmarish, visceral.
@corpore-metal: ST Joshi's works are great, but I'd just like to mention that personally he's an intolerably dick (actually, pretty similar to what Lovecraft himself must have been like) and that he's also got a ladyfriend who is disturbingly obsessed with Archie comics, to the exclusion of all other topics.
@braak: I've enjoyed S.T. Joshi's lectures immensely. He's very opinionated, but he also has an encyclopedic knowledge of Lovecraft's life and work. And I'm really not sure where you'd get the idea that Lovecraft was probably an "intolerable dick," especially since so many people described him as genteel and polite.
Came here to plug both Nick Pollotta's "That Darn Squid God" and Moore's "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss" but I see I was beaten on both counts.
The latest "Garrett P.I." book from author Glen Cook deals with a very Cthulhu-esque primordial sleeping monster, who is being roused from his ancient slumber by a bunch of very unpleasent giant burrowing insects who have decided he looks rather tasty.
I am seized by a vortex of cosmic terror it's hideous tendrils of prehistoric malice burrowing deep into the very fabric of my mind, rending asunder the very core of my ...what the hell was I just talking about?...
There was also a neat Lovecraftian/Office Angst/Schizophrenia novel called Resume With Monsters, that apparently you can only get used now for an inordinate amount of money.
Uh ... what? Have you actually read Wells' book, or are you just going by the Spielberg crapfest? 'Cause that's the only version of the story where the Martians were buried.
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I can't wait to get this book!
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Huh? What language is that?
Come on, Graeme...I just know you know better than that.
I've always felt that gawker sites don't really qualify as journalism, and the above sloppiness is one reason why: even the so-called "professional contributors" can't consistently summon proper grammar of even the simplest sort.
Not only is "out've" not a contraction of two words you would put together, it isn't even shorter than the two words it ostensibly replaces ("out of"). How utterly daft.
It is difficult to sustain respect for this site when its content sometimes reads like it is composed by learning-challenged 4th graders. Hey, Analee, who edits the editors?
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Wow is "bitchy" in your vocab then, because you sure are giving a banner representation of it?
Lay off Graeme. We're lucky to have him here.
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And I liked the Muffy stories, tho before he died, Geo. got very tired of being asked about them; I think he was upset that they were more well-known and talked about than his years of serious work.
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@braak: "Oooooh. My name's braak! I'm soooo smart!"
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Lovecraft and gaming: two abominable things that are otherworldly together!
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And Lovecraft did do science fiction. "Shadow Out of Time," is a good example of this. Actually a lot of his stories had science fictional themes, disembodied brains, bizarre aliens bent on global conquest, bizarre hyperspatial physics, etc.
Of course back then the genres weren't so clearly defined. The phrase science fiction hadn't even been invented yet. It all seems sort of steampunkish to us now but, according to ST Joshi a leading scholar of Lovecraft's works, Lovecraft's later stuff began to read more and more like straight SF. Many of Lovecraft's stories predate themes commonly found in UFO abduction stories, involving bizarre creatures, dreamlike, nightmarish, visceral.
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But there's a case to be made for Lovecraft being a dick if you include in the category of dickish behaviors "deep-seated and pernicious racism."
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The latest "Garrett P.I." book from author Glen Cook deals with a very Cthulhu-esque primordial sleeping monster, who is being roused from his ancient slumber by a bunch of very unpleasent giant burrowing insects who have decided he looks rather tasty.
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[www.infinityplus.co.uk]
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2 bucks is "inordinate"?
It's a fun read.
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Nevermind, nevermind.
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"Resume with Monsters" - freaking hilarious. Cuthulu meets Office Space.
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Uh ... what? Have you actually read Wells' book, or are you just going by the Spielberg crapfest? 'Cause that's the only version of the story where the Martians were buried.
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