Recently this blog (and my Flickr account) turned 20 years old, forever in Internet years. I went back through it all, retracing digital footprints made on what feels like a different planet. Here are some highlights.
A roughly monthly exploration of places in horror fiction — real or imagined, geographical or psychological — culled from The Heavy Leather Horror Show.
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How I hauled myself, two teens, an 80 lb dog, and a whole load of crap 4000+ miles across six states in twenty days using an electric vehicle. And survived to tell the tale.
Stuff I’ve found interesting from around the web lately.
Prefer to listen to this post? (It’s really me, not AI!) Greetings, travelers! Grab a towel, maybe a snorkel too. This week we’re returning to a destination you may recall from last year’s itinerary called Doom Shanty — the horrors of the underwater world. But as seasoned visitors on this second trip we’re focusing on […]
Continue ReadingPrefer to listen to this post? (It’s really me, not AI!) It’s been a while since our journey took us to an actual place, like a country. Let’s get back to our roots here. What makes something a horror representative of a nation? It can’t be merely that the country is used as a shooting […]
Continue ReadingPrefer to listen to this post? My sightseeing companions, today’s journey takes us to a single year in film history. It’s the year The Joy of Sex was published. The year Nixon recorded himself chatting about hiring thieves to break into an office complex. The year an American used the Sicilian Defense to open a […]
Continue ReadingYou're reading Ascent Stage, by John Tolva.
If that thing isn’t chained down I give it about 12 hours on the streets of Chicago.