A weird glitch on my blog and my first attempt at Doug Talks Weird is to be made soon

BLOT: (14 May 2014 - 11:10:50 PM)

A weird glitch on my blog and my first attempt at Doug Talks Weird is to be made soon

I was going to post the next paragraph a day or two ago, but my blog decided to do something weird and repost the one congratulating Laird Barron on the Bram Stoker, over and over, about once every four hours, and so I decided to give it a moment to see if it kept it up. It hasn't happened again, so I am going to assume the process got stuck in some sort of cycle once I ended the SSH session, but I have no idea. For most of you, you may not have even noticed but those on the feed or my front page would have seen the repeat. I'll keep an eye out for it and see if it happens again. Now on to what would have been yesterday's brief news.

I have been mulling over making...something...that will enable me to talk about my generalized love of weird fiction, ghost fiction, and horror fiction (as well as larger literary trends, philosophy, history, science, computers, and so forth), with a likely focus on either individual stories (short and longer) or recurring themes. Over the past few weeks, I've been wondering about which format to aim for, something like a blog series versus something like a personally released podcast, and for right now I think I am going with a vlog. I've been doing research on Stephen King's "Crouch End", some of his theory on Bad Place fiction, Lovecraftian versus Campbellian modes of mood setting, and whether the mythos name dropping in the story adds anything to it. I have a rough bit of a script, some graphics, and notes, and will probably try recording tomorrow with an attempt to have it edited and out by Sunday, but we'll see. There is Godzilla to watch, after-all.

If it goes well, by which I mean if I like it more so than if anyone else likes it, I will then examine "Shadow Out of Time" as a Job-tale and how it needlessly shapes itself as a horror story.

Ok, I have a splitting headache the refuses to go away, so I am going to bed. Hopefully this post won't enter in a repost loop. Goodnight, Beautiful People.

OTHER BLOTS THIS MONTH: May 2014