Let's start Shopping...only 54 Days Til...

Halloween is over, lets skip Thanksgiving and go right to Christmas. Here's a few good places for us geeks to start shopping:

http://www.computergear.com/

http://www.x-tremegeek.com/

and if you really HAVE to leave the house and go out on "Black Friday," get an early check on the sales:

http://www.bfads.net/

Happy shopping!

Death and Dementia

Keeping with the Halloween motif......the name of the site says it all. Lots of links to keep busy for a while.

Horror Find

Another good one for the Halloween theme.

Foamy

Ok, this has to be here. http://www.illwillpress.com/
It's Weird Friday! Foamy is the best. I admit, I am a Foamy cult member. This little squirrel beats the pants off of Dennis Miller, Bill Mahr, and maybe even Dennis Leary as far as rants go.

DarkLinks 2016 Halloween Links

Almost Halloween. Sad, but the Christmas stuff is already in the stores. So, before it's over, check out the DarkLinks 2010 link page. Another thing that sucks, the marathon horror movies on the cable channels will soon end too. For some more B flicks check www.badmovies.org. And for other oddities, check: http://www.hauntedcuriosities.com/ and http://www.arkhambazaar.com/

TV Horror Hosts - Part 6

They moved to the net.

TV Horror Hosts - Part 5

A few links from Web Ring.

TV Horror Hosts - Part 3

Part 3 of the series.





Damn I MISS MST3K!

TV Horror Hosts - Part 4

Local flair, but some good stuff.

TV Horror Hosts - Part 2

Part 2 in my series of paying homage to the TV Horror Hosts of years past.

Did you know, the first TV Horror Host was Maila Numi aka Vampira in 1954. Her amazing hourglass figure was more pronounces because she had her lower ribs removed. Her show was cancelled after a year because she wanted to get paid and the TV station (KABC) countered with a demand that they owned the rights to the character.

Vampira probably would have been forgotten if not for Ed Wood and his famous Plan 9 From Outer Space.

TV Horror Hosts - Part 1

After reading an article in the HorrorHound magazine, I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. They ran a short bit on the TV horror hosts of years past. I remember the days long gone when I used to wait anxiously for late Saturday night to flip on Channel 3 in Philadelphia to watch "Saturday Night Dead" hosted by Stella, the giant cleavage femme fatal whose campiness and low cut, skin tight black gowns got all teenage boys cranked up and then she hosted some of the best B films ever made. And before her time, of course, was Dr. Shock. Back in the day when I watched these demented creatures on a console TV which pulled in about 10 or 12 channels from the antenna on the roof.

The video age slowly killed these icons. The early mom and pop video stores of the '80s had great selections of genere film and B films, which were killed by the big box rental places, which are now all closing due to the internet. And I do find the internet to be a great source to find rare gems, but the net can never replace the iconic horror host. Even now, with 200+ channels from my satellite TV and a horror channel (Chiller), none of them have a decent Friday or Saturday night line up of great B horror/SF films with a schlock host. Damn wished they did. I'd put down the computer to watch it.

All that being said, the above link is the first of 4 or 5 places I've found on the web that pay homage to the great TV Horror Hosts of days past.

Cosmetic Database

Interresting. Check out what cosmetics and personal care products are killing you.

Life as a real CSI - and you thought Entomology was useless

Ok, here it goes, since I've been nagged to death to post. and speaking of death, here is something that could fall into the category of the Thought for the Day. As it goes, a word of advise is that if you find that you are going to pass on while preparing to go fishing, leave the live bait behind. Such is the case of "Uncle Pete." By using forensic Entomology, as generalized in the above link, I estimated "Pete" had been preparing to go fishing, sitting in his car in a closed, detached garage for about 3 weeks.
The big question should be, "How do you know 'Pete' was going fishing?" Well....in the car, next to "Pete" sat a lunch box cooler. Along with food stuffs, was some containers of live shrimp bait. Naturally, after 3 weeks, the bait was less than live.
The next question should be, "Why leave the bait home if I'm going to die?" Well....there is the matter of bouquet. Three weeks for a former person is one thing, but for former aquatic life......I'll leave to the imagination.

Cool Haunts Link Page

So, I'm watching this really crappy horror flick last night, "Death Tunnel." Typical 5 young girls forced to spend the night in a haunted hospital theme. I watched it because I have an extreme interest in abandoned places, specifically old state hospitals, asylums, sanatoriums, etc. "Death Tunnel" was based on a "true" story involving Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Interesting place. I found the above site looking for some other haunts. There are many out there. Unfortunately, the link on this site for Waverly is dead. Try http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/ for the official site, and another good one is http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html. I may actually be going to Louisville, KY within the next year and if so, will post pictures of Waverly.

Zombie Pumpkins - Get your pumpkins ready

Get the jack-o-lanterns ready with some cool carving patterns from Zombie Pumpkins.


Check out the pumpkin patch at Crumpkin's Pumpkins:

TRASH PALACE

A good place to find the long forgotten or perhaps a new treasure. A nice collection of stuff you won't be able to find just anywhere. Perhaps one of the best yet I've found.

Strange Stuff From Nick

I'm really not sure what to say about this. It SEEMS sadly believable.

Obama Is Setting Us Up

Not sure that I agree 100% with Nick on this, but...

It's time again...the Ultimate Holiday Card!

The censored version. You can find the uncensored version over at Google Images.

In case you need one......

Need some human remains? Or a freak animal perhaps? The nuclear mermaid is appealing.