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moon_custaferTIL the cemetery in Vienna has tons of merch, much of it featuring their little grim reaper mascot.
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Sep. 21st, 2025 11:37 ammoon_custaferOn the way to the coffeeshop, saw two guys go by in what I can only describe as a tin lizzie, or perhaps a flivver. At any rate, it looked like the kind of minimallyrebuilt-from-an-old-Ford-chassis that Archie used to drive in the comics.
Still wasn’t quite as memorable as the Model T I once saw that was painted lime green, adorned with various accessories including a pair of bull’s horns mounted on the hood, and driven by a man who looked like the ghost of Stag O’Lee.
A video I forgot to link to last night: two of the spiders that live in our bathroom. Unsure if this was a territorial dispute, or courtship.
Still wasn’t quite as memorable as the Model T I once saw that was painted lime green, adorned with various accessories including a pair of bull’s horns mounted on the hood, and driven by a man who looked like the ghost of Stag O’Lee.
A video I forgot to link to last night: two of the spiders that live in our bathroom. Unsure if this was a territorial dispute, or courtship.
Saturday Assorted Links
Sep. 20th, 2025 08:13 pmmoon_custaferInterviews with the costumers for Bus Stop, myself included. My voice sounds like the bottom of a very small boat scraping against a rock.
Apparently nobody knows what musical genre Jhariah is. I’ve heard three of his songs, and each one sounds completely different. He isn’t Goth music, but his work is somewhat gothic.
Short chapters of WWMBD and Gentleman of the Shade to tide you over while I focus on writing for Yuletide.
Speaking of Gentleman of the Shade, last month I showed sovay this 1973 radio show DJ’d by Keith Moon, but didn’t think to post it here. Moon’s comic patter, and eclectic playlist, make it the nearest thing our world has to ‘Mad Bob’s Late-Nite Platter Party,’ the radio show hosted by one of my story’s leads.
Apparently nobody knows what musical genre Jhariah is. I’ve heard three of his songs, and each one sounds completely different. He isn’t Goth music, but his work is somewhat gothic.
Short chapters of WWMBD and Gentleman of the Shade to tide you over while I focus on writing for Yuletide.
Speaking of Gentleman of the Shade, last month I showed sovay this 1973 radio show DJ’d by Keith Moon, but didn’t think to post it here. Moon’s comic patter, and eclectic playlist, make it the nearest thing our world has to ‘Mad Bob’s Late-Nite Platter Party,’ the radio show hosted by one of my story’s leads.
Dream Journal
Sep. 17th, 2025 05:16 ammoon_custaferJust had a dream that was in kind of Harry Selik/Jan Svankmeyer stop-motion animation, but Nana is pestering me while I type
Yuletide Nomination Season Coming Up
Sep. 10th, 2025 08:40 pmmoon_custaferI should start a list of fandoms to nominate and hype up.
*Checks past years* Well, I’ll repeat the recommendations for Lud-In-the-Mist, The Westing Game, The Woman In White, Daniel Pinkwater’s oeuvre, Night of the Jabberwock, People Will Talk, Kolchak, The Time of Your Life, The Who bandfic or songfic, and Get Crazy (1983).
The Moonstone, The Hidden (1987), Decoy (1946), The Green Hills of Earth, the Silver John/John the Balladeer stories. What else? Oh, The Green Man (the novel or the tv miniseries)…
Hilda the Plus-Size Pinup and Sapphire and Steel are annual favourites who need no introduction.
*Checks past years* Well, I’ll repeat the recommendations for Lud-In-the-Mist, The Westing Game, The Woman In White, Daniel Pinkwater’s oeuvre, Night of the Jabberwock, People Will Talk, Kolchak, The Time of Your Life, The Who bandfic or songfic, and Get Crazy (1983).
The Moonstone, The Hidden (1987), Decoy (1946), The Green Hills of Earth, the Silver John/John the Balladeer stories. What else? Oh, The Green Man (the novel or the tv miniseries)…
Hilda the Plus-Size Pinup and Sapphire and Steel are annual favourites who need no introduction.
“I appear to have invented a knife-wielding tentacle.”
Sep. 10th, 2025 05:41 pmmoon_custaferThe other day I decided to go on YouTube and look at the Knife-Wielding Tentacle video from eight or so years back. And then I looked at the other videos on that channel and concluded that the KWT’s creator, “outtaspaceman,” is a spiritual descendant of Bruce Lacey.
He also seems to be a maker of electronic music, and when I checked out his blog he mentioned having been involved with a band called Neural Circus, so I looked them up, and I’m now pretty sure outtaspaceman is somebody named David Cracknell, but I’m still not sure if he’s former journalist David Cracknell. Probably not. The man playing a toy saxophone in the video doesn’t look much like the man in the Wikipedia article(even if I assume that’s an old photo); although the latter apparently played piano on a track with Paul Weller and Gabrielle in 2007 so maybe? I suppose I could try to work up the nerve to just contact outtaspaceman and ask.
He also seems to be a maker of electronic music, and when I checked out his blog he mentioned having been involved with a band called Neural Circus, so I looked them up, and I’m now pretty sure outtaspaceman is somebody named David Cracknell, but I’m still not sure if he’s former journalist David Cracknell. Probably not. The man playing a toy saxophone in the video doesn’t look much like the man in the Wikipedia article(even if I assume that’s an old photo); although the latter apparently played piano on a track with Paul Weller and Gabrielle in 2007 so maybe? I suppose I could try to work up the nerve to just contact outtaspaceman and ask.