An archive of stuff I've watched, read, and played.
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TELEVISION
·2026
Crystal Lake Gives Pamela Voorhees Her Own Story
A prequel series that builds out the backstory of Pamela Voorhees and Jason, with Linda Cardellini doing most of the heavy lifting.
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MOVIES
·1987
How Pinhead Got That Face
A deep dive into how Pinhead's look evolved from Barker's early art experiments through subculture influences and collaborative makeup work.
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MOVIES
·1985
Legend (1985): Ridley Scott's Fairy Tale
A forest boy and a princess have to stop the Lord of Darkness from killing the last unicorns and plunging the world into eternal night.
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MUSIC
·2000
Another Night with Chris Botti
Botti plays the City Winery in Pittsburgh and brings a classical violinist along for the ride.
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TTRPG
·2025
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
A stripped-down OSR ruleset that mostly exists as a delivery vehicle for some of the darkest, strangest adventure modules in the hobby.
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MAGAZINES
·1976
Starlog Was How You Found Out About Sci-Fi Before the Internet
A magazine about science fiction that treated its readers seriously, sent them backward into old films and serials, and kept them ahead of movies they wouldn't see for months.
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BOOKS
·2018
Dracul: The Dracula Prequel Starring Bram Stoker
A Dracula prequel where Bram Stoker himself is a character, written in the same epistolary format as the original.
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MOVIES
·1982
Blade Runner 1982
A detective hunts down rogue androids in a rain-soaked future Los Angeles, and the movie keeps asking who the real monster is.
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COMIC BOOKS
·1984
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
A horror comic where the scary stuff isn't the monster, it's about us.
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TTRPG
·2014
Deep Carbon Observatory: Great Ideas, Heavy Prep
An OSR module split between masterpiece and unplayable draft — the drained-lake premise is the reason to read it.