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Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying "Hello"

luxintenebris jokingly says...

have had personal proof of this outside of London as well...even the UK...and believe this is the norm in most cities with a population over "the bomb can't get them all".

but not always the case either.

have been treated better in some metros than in other backwater burgs or cattle conurbations.

in fact, one of the most 'Mayberry moments' ever experience was on an 'L' train. a short story that can't seem to tell w/o it being over an hour in length - but it was in a word - lovely.

Love Death and Robots 1x13 - Warship vs Jets

SFOGuy says...

The original Markus Kloos short story it's taken explores the anthropormorphized relationship between a pilot and a ship in a superstitious and interesting way...The wartime autobiographical memoir that the genre seems taken from is similar to Robert Mason's book on his experience as a Vietnam era Huey pilot---"Chickenhawk"...

The ground looks like it's breathing

RFlagg says...

Roots just under the cover of the moss, add high speed winds...
Weather Channel had a short story about it: https://weather.com/news/trending/video/creepy-canadian-forest-appears-to-be-breathing-whats-really-at-play/

Forbes (not exactly a bastion of science to be sure) also suggests that the storm had made the ground wet, which reduced the soil's cohesion adding to the effect: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/10/21/the-ground-looks-like-its-breathing-in-this-video

Rollerblading across the U.S. to restore faith in people

MilkmanDan says...

Cool.

I was interested enough to try to find information at circa.com, as suggested at the end of the video. Nothing immediately popped out at the top level domain, but a google search found a short story there where the last line was a link to her personal webpage:

https://yaniseho.com/the-bladress/

She's currently in Nebraska, with 169 days on the road and 2747 miles traveled. Not sure if she had phone/GPS issues or what, but there's a jump from day 93 to 119 as her position went from roughly NYC to Buffalo in that time.

I wonder if she's done any wheel and/or bearing replacements in her skates. Her frames/chassis look like Wizards (nice heavy-duty but light aluminum) with a quality boot that I can't recognize for sure but might be a Seba. Anyway, looks like relatively high-end, durable gear!

IT - Official Teaser Trailer

ChaosEngine says...

Oddly, I also thought that it was one of the least scary books that King has written. I read a lot of King when I was younger and some of his stuff terrified me, especially some of the short stories.
But IT was almost more fantasy than horror.

Making your antagonist a creepy killer clown is almost redundant, as I'm pretty sure that ALL clowns are creepy and evil...

or in the case of Insane Clown Posse, fucking stupid

enoch (Member Profile)

poolcleaner says...

You are gonna hate me now, but I grew up reading Dean Koontz and Stephen King years before the librarian at my middle suggested Lovecraft, so 12? My first Stephen King was Night Shift, with the eye in the middle of a mummified hand; Jerusalem's Lot ruined my ability to sleep. For some strange reason Lovecraft comforted me but King disturbed me lol -- My first Lovecraft reading was The Festival.

Anyway, it's my mom's fault, i jus read whatever she had lying around the house, which also included Mary Higgins Clark, Robert Ludlum, Danielle Steel, Michael Crichton, and who even knows what else.

Totally agree in having absorbed the material rather than fully understood. I mean shit, how does a 4th grader even under The Rising Sun? It's just shocking and strange. Like d3coding a new language.

I also read a lot of young adult thriller suspense books, notably Alfred Hitchcock's young readers books and short story collections. Ray Bradbury collections, random Asimov Foundation books, and old copies of Analog, that my dad would buy from local library sales. (Thas how poor people shop for books hahaha) He was the old school scifi guy, but not at all into horror.

I suppose I don't mind hacks. Reading the letters of Oscar Wilde changed my opinions on EVERYTHING. If Wilde belongs to the criminal class or what Danny Devito's character Frank terms the "Fringe" class, there must be some saving grace even in the intellectual crime of the hack writer.

enoch said:

that was awesome.
i hope del toro gets to make "mountains of madness",because i love the imagery he used in hellboy,which was VERY lovecraftian.

i stumbled upon lovecraft from my dad,and by accident.
my dad had a ton of the those sci-fi,horror pulp magazines from the 40's and 50's in the basement.

i think i was around 9 or 10 and my dad had given me the job of clearing out the basement,because he was going to remodel it..and i remember coming across this old,and dusty cardboard box filled with those books.

i spent the entire afternoon reading..and reading..and reading.
and it was lovecraft that i fell in love with,although at my young age he was not an easy read.you have to absorb lovecraft rather than actually read him.

this was the weekend i also discovered isaac asimov,ray bradbury,fred saberhagen and jack l chalker.

so i fell in love with lovecraft before stephen king.

and then my big sister tried to introduce me to dean r koontz.
and well..fuck dean r koontz,fucking hack and plagiarist.

seriously..fuck dean r koontz.

Brilliant Accidents

Girl On An Escalator

bareboards2 says...

I had a period when I read any short stories by Bukowski that I could get my hands on.

I didn't know anything about his world or world view and I was fascinated.

The dystopian future of augmented reality

Payback says...

There was a cool short story in Analog (I think, might have been Lightspeed) recently, I should look it up, but basically it was about this sort of future, only the guy in the story contracted ransomware in his AR implants. Really freaky.

It's the main reason I would never get an implant of any kind. Malware.

How they censor Womens Sport Events on Iranian TV

SevenFingers says...

This totally reminds me of this one short story they showed us in school a long time ago, where everyone had to be equal, the beautiful had masks, while the smart had implants to scramble their thoughts. Can't remember the name.

landing probe on Churymov-Gerasimenko

Automata trailer

AeroMechanical says...

Though I'm surely forgetting some more obscure work, I certainly can't think of any Aisimov novel or short story that has ever been transitioned into a decent film.

It's possible, as ChaosEngine alluded to, that the Foundation "trilogy" could make a decent film trilogy or miniseries, but it would require an exceptionally good screenwriter and director to make it work--and a LOT of creative liberties. It just covers too great a timespan, too many characters with complex and cross-generational relationships, and frankly very little of real significance happens during reasonable spans of time. Frankly, and though I can't claim to have read all of his works (though probably most), Asimov is probably best left in the realm of literature.

What we really need is a film version of the damn Sprawl Trilogy. I mean, that's just begging to be made into a trilogy of films. The screenplay would almost write itself. I'd say Joss Whedon should direct.

Recovering Audio from micro vibrations with only video

oritteropo says...

There's a funny sci-fi short story about it called "Time Shards" by Gregory Benford... and Mythbusters have done it, and there have been a few serious papers/articles on the subject.

Longswd said:

I recall reading something about recovering audio from micro-striations in the grooves on pottery created with a wheel. I don't remember now if it was a serious endeavor or speculative fiction.

How Mass Murders Should NOT Be Covered By The Media

Stormsinger says...

Not that this is even remotely a new idea. I remember reading a science fiction short story several decades ago, where they powers-that-be committed to the idea that the best way to handle terrorists was to make them a laughing stock. They were all to be called "Charlie", and all the news organizations promised to treat them as nothing but incompetent fools.
Sadly, that doesn't appear to be enough info to find the name or author of the story, but it had to date back at least to the 80s, and more likely the 70s or even 60s.

Powerful scene from "Harrison Bergeron"



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