(Ava once noticed it somewhere when I was visiting: "I know what wtf stands for! Wednesday Thursday Friday!")
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
ha!
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
i'll give the gatiss thing a shot, his version of the tractate middoth wasn't totally disastrous. there is a dedicated MR james thread around here somewhere...
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
(searching for M.R. is useless, as is MR. so you're left with James which is useless. i tried a posts search for tractate and middoth and "the ash tree" and didn't find a thread.)
ah, 'Tis the Season = M.R. James (via "Antiquary")
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
Christmas Eve BBC Four22:00The Dead Room30 minutes of build up to a bog standard jump scare. Exceedingly meh.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
was trying to decide which would be the best thread to complain about it on
Gatiss is terrible at making his influences cohere into anything that works
― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
jump scare was fluffed too
― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
If they looking for ideas to save money for when the gov stop subsidising pensioner tv licences - sack off mediocre nobs like Gatiss, just stick on some Hitler docs at xmas.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
OTM
― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
"why does everything have to be so meta", I ask myself.
Wasn't really a jump scare to me, any more than the blankets are a jump scare.
Gattis know his stuff and it's great to hear him talk but his writing is often a let down.
― koogs, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
the big vandermeer-curated book of weird fiction is 99p in the current Amazon uk Kindle monthly deals (35 quid for this paperback). it's been mentioned in the sf thread a few times.
― koogs, Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:47 (five months ago) link
(ledge mentions it here and there's some discussion, sept 2012)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:50 (five months ago) link
I think Roadside Picnic might be part of this discussion.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:54 (five months ago) link