As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas: Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”
Thursday, December 25th, 2025Shoegazer Sunday: Night Tapes’ “Helix”
Sunday, December 14th, 2025Night Tapes are a UK-Estonian band, and “Helix” sounds a bit like Mallory to me.
Halloween Horrors: The Most Cursed Videos on the Internet
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025Daily Dose of Internet does video compilations, and here are some of the most cursed. These are less straight horror than just weird, unsettling and creepy.
Come for the electric guacamole, stay for the airport flooding with green slime.
(You know, Electric Guacamole would be a good name for a rock band…)
Halloween Horrors: Joe Rogan Interviews A. J. Gentile
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025For those unfamiliar with A. J. Gentile, he’s the guy behind The Why Files, where he and sidekick Hecklefish examine various paranormal subjects, spooky stories, legends, fringe science theories, etc. A bunch of stuff that could have been covered by Art Bell or Fortean Times. I used him as fodder for previous Halloween posts here and here.
Turns out that Joe Rogan is a fan, too, and he did a nearly three hour interview with him:
Topics covered include UFOs, aliens, floods, the weirdness of the moon, military technology (that might have come from aliens), etc.
Remember: Alternate reality theories are for entertainment purposes only…
Halloween Horrors: Google Earth Mysteries
Sunday, October 26th, 2025People find all sorts of interesting things in Google Earth, some of which are more unsettling than others.
These include:
Halloween Horrors: Sharks in the Basement
Friday, October 24th, 2025Remember those fake photos of sharks swimming in subways that showed up after “Superstorm Sandy”?
Well, this photo of sharks in a guy’s basement in Hudson Valley, New York…
…was absolutely real.
Turns out he was smuggling them in the back of his truck to sell on the black market.
So now add “basement sharks” to the list of things to irrationally be afraid of…
Halloween Horrors: Dueling Krakens
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025There are not one, but two films called Kraken out soon. The first one is from Norway and appears to be due in early 20206:
The other one is Russian, so I don’t suppose I’ll be watching it any time soon:
Discounting a few oddities (like adult Clover from The Cloverfield Paradox), this is probably the largest titular kaiju of any film.
The Brilliant Business Model of Spirit Halloween
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025The Fat Electrician unleashes a profane rant of admiration on the brilliant business model of Spirit Halloween stores:
They make $1.1 billion in revenue per year despite being open only 6-8 weeks…
Halloween Horrors: Rocko’s Basilisk
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025Rocko’s Basilisk is a thought experiment that would be terribly frightening if it weren’t so fundamentally stupid.
To quote Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge: “Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment which states that there could be an artificial superintelligence in the future that, while otherwise benevolent, would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize that advancement.”
The really crazy part is that those who actually believe in the theory think Rocko’s Basilisk would become so all-powerful that it can retroactively punish those in the past, including subjecting them to eternal torment for failing to help the basilisk, while rewarding those who do. So instead of an interesting thought experiment, it’s just a funhouse inversion of Christian theology on salvation and damnation.
Someone has put up doznes of AI created videos on this theme. This one is, I think, the most amusing.
Shades of Philip K. Dick!
But surely no one is foolish enough to be fooled that this half-assed through experiment actually reflects reality, right? Wrong. “In the 2020s, the philosophy of the Zizians was heavily influenced by the Roko’s basilisk thought experiment. Ziz LaSota, the leader of the cult, believes the basilisk to be real and wrote on her* blog: “Eventually I came to believe that if I persisted in trying to save the world, I would be tortured until the end of the universe by a coalition of all unfriendly A.I.s.” If you haven’t heard of the Zizians, they’re a radical vegan transgender cult that’s also anti-AI. At least six people have died due to their actions…
* His. Born Jack LaSota.
Hallowen Horrors: Giant Spiders Horror Games
Friday, October 3rd, 2025Let’s continue yesterday’s giant spider horror theme with a look at some recent video games.
First up: Cassiculus, a game where you face giant spiders underground.
Next up: Daz Games plays Jawbone Hollow, where you face… a giant spider underground.
Finally, Daz also tackles giant spiders in Huntsman, where you face a giant spider…in an office building! This one may have the most realistic spider of all of them.
Sweet dreams, arachnophobs…