You did it! You, and you alone, have found all the clues, and using skill, bravery, and intelligence, you have made it here, to my secret treasure chamber deep below Castle Avocado. Thanks for playing! Continue reading The Night Thread of the Treasure of the July 25 Day Thread
Thank you all for coming today. I have hidden several clues in today’s Day Thread that, put together in the correct order, will lead one of you to my legendary treasure. It will take skill, intelligence, and no small amount of bravery to claim this prize. Some of you may not survive the search. But for the winner, life will be forever changed. Do you have it in you to see this quest through? Let’s find out. Continue reading The Treasure of the July 25 Day Thread
You approach the city from the south. The two turbofan engines of the plane have been guzzling kerosene for 100 minutes as you crossed the sea from there to the imminent here, the airport perched on a cliff, precarious from … Continue reading June 27 Night Thread
You approach the city from the east. You don’t know what time it is. The words they taught you back home don’t work the way they’re supposed to. In time you’ll figure that out, but right now you’ve been reduced … Continue reading June 27 Day Thread
Dr. Julian Karswell, autodidact and alchemist, is not a good loser, you know. Not a bit of it. Continue reading The Day Thread of Julian Karswell
May NineteenNo, we got nothin’ commonNo, we can’t dance togetherNo, we can’t talk at allPlease take me along when you slide on down Continue reading The Day Thread of the Expanding Man
I remember when and where I fell in love with Victor LaValle. It was Thursday, October 26, 2017, I was standing in the massive Waterstones off Piccadilly Circus in London, and I was reading the introduction he’d written for the … Continue reading Lone Women, by Victor LaValle: Dread on the Range
History don’t stop just because Agnew ain’t here. Get yappin’. Continue reading The Slapdash History Thread of 4/12/22
Oh, hey, got a Cross pen and pencil set on you? I just have to jot down the stock number and description of the Night Thread on this order form, give it to the guy at the counter, pay for … Continue reading Let’s Swing By Service Merchandise and Order a Night Thread for January 19, 2022
Designed by Albert C. Martin and Associates and built at the top of Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, the LA DWP headquarters is a masterpiece of Corporate-International Style architecture. You might recognize it from Inception, or any of the numerous … Continue reading Day Thread of the Los Angeles DWP Building (January 19, 2022)
“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.” -Montague Rhodes James Let us now endeavor to emulate the esteemed Dr James, and share with each other tales guaranteed to bring that pleasing terror. Continue reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Comments
The city I grew up in had been an economic powerhouse in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Paper mills and textile factories, powered by a hydroelectric dam and a big coal powerplant made the city thrive. We got schools, … Continue reading In Holyoke, Mass. Did Kubla Khan A Crap Amusement Park Decree
Today is my birthday. I’m 50. Continue reading The Day Thread Rusts Unburnish’d
I’m working on three things right now: a couple of short stories and my absurdly ambitious and almost certainly doomed novel. One of the shorts is very much in the MR James vein, the other a moodier piece that ties … Continue reading Horror and Me: Working in the Lab, Late One Night
No kid ever wanted to be the knight instead of the dragon. Humans have rules, and worse, consequences. When a human does something, they have to live with it. Maybe they go to jail. Maybe they feel guilty. Maybe they … Continue reading Horror and Me: Our Favorite Thing Is Monsters
My grandmother’s house was built in 1886. It was a row house, typical of the factory cities of the northeast, with three rooms (and a bathroom) on the ground floor, two bedrooms upstairs (where 7 people lived for a while … Continue reading A Pleasing Terror: Horror and Me, A Prologue
Hello, and welcome to the first of what will, hopefully, be a monthly feature. This will be a place for us to discuss architecture and design, to share news and opinions about the built environment, and to chart the path … Continue reading Frozen Music: A Monthly Thread about Architecture and Design
A bunch of folks, including Hegel Exercises (from whom I stole the title), have expressed interest in a weekly thread in which we can share the longreads that have kept us looking busy at work and prevented us from noticing … Continue reading What Has It Got In Its Pocketses?
A bunch of folks, including Hegel Exercises (from whom I stole the title), have expressed interest in a weekly thread in which we can share the longreads that have kept us looking busy at work and prevented us from noticing … Continue reading What Has It Got In Its Pocketses?
A bunch of folks, including Hegel Exercises (from whom I stole the title), have expressed interest in a weekly thread in which we can share the longreads that have kept us looking busy at work and prevented us from noticing … Continue reading What Has It Got In Its Pocketses?
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