Few are worthy of being mentioned in the same breathe with Poe and Lovedcraft but , Thomas Ligotti is the real deal . This is the one I have , his first two books in one volume .IndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:54 pm read some poe and lovecraft in the dark, lol. 'cask of amontillado' still freaks me out, he's got some good detective stuff, and lovecraft's space god monstrosity horror are nuts.
Shirly Jackson's 'the lottery' is one of Stephen King's favorites. Muy creepy.herbalhippie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:10 pmI read The Dunwich Horror recently, that story freaks me the f right out. I need to read more of his stuff.
herbalhippie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:19 pmBlendsAreMyFriends wrote:If women ran the Pentagon, what shape would the missiles be?
There wouldn't be any missles.
Leaving tomorrow morning and coming back Sunday. I LOVE YOUR STORY SO MUCH!!!!DittonW wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:19 pm
When I was a tree planter I had a 68 dodge van outfitted out with a mattress and shelves for cooking and storage. I lived in it from February to Augest every year for 3 or 4 years. It was funny because it was two different colors of rust and we spray painted "Rust Never Sleeps" on the side of it with orange forest service tree marking paint. and senior citizens who didnt know anything about Crazy Horse would honk at us and cheer . I drove that thing all over the PNW, - from Gold Beach to Missoula . , I remember the year that I worked out of Eugene I drove up to the Olympic Peninsula and hung out at some hot springs kicking dope for 4 days before I went to another job in Cle Elum . I remember because I was riding back on the ferry feeling like shit and I heard on the radio about Courtney love murdering Curt Cobain : (. It makes me feel nostalgic thinking about running up a dirt road and sleeping in the woods. Thats a pretty good life
Here is my letterboxd if anyone wants to see the movies I've been watching lately .. https://letterboxd.com/liberhabanero/
If you hear creaking and perhaps something brushing against the top of your car every so often, when the police come to get you in the morning, don't look back - it's your boyfriend's body hanging from a tree, it was his feet swaying against the roof of your car!!!!!!!herbalhippie wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:36 pm I'm going off on another 'vision quest' as IndelibleDotInk put it.
It's supposed to start raining tomorrow night through Saturday morning, which is fine, I love rain. And I have a plan.
I'm going to park in the forest, set up my van for the night and lay in bed and read The Haunting of Hill House. All by myself.
In the dark. In the night.
I have so many good stories about all that - We hung out in Rosyln a lot because it was closer to our campsite.. I was 18 and one of the girls on our crew was 17 . We would go into the bar across the street from the Rosyln cafe and they looked at how tired and dirty we were and never asked for an I.D. once. I came from a mormon town with no bars so I had no idea that I wasn't supposed to be drinking because the only places I went into were backwoods places that didn't care. Pierce, ID off of hw12 had to be one of the most lawless places in America in the early 90's.herbalhippie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:00 am
I LOVE YOUR STORY SO MUCH!!!!
I was just in Cle Elum last weekend. Hit up the bakery, Glondos Sausage and Owen's Meats. Oh, and The Sunset Cafe for lunch. We must have come home with 40# of food.
"His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below."DittonW wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:27 pmFew are worthy of being mentioned in the same breathe with Poe and Lovedcraft but , Thomas Ligotti is the real deal . This is the one I have , his first two books in one volume .IndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:54 pm read some poe and lovecraft in the dark, lol. 'cask of amontillado' still freaks me out, he's got some good detective stuff, and lovecraft's space god monstrosity horror are nuts.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246 ... grimscribe
What type of van? Now I need fried rice. I just moved in March and dunno any Chinese places in the area. Ah, yelp.herbalhippie wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:58 pm I'm sitting in the back of my van looking at the river and eating fried rice and barbecue pork baked humbao
Bc they would have already fired them allherbalhippie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:19 pmBlendsAreMyFriends wrote:If women ran the Pentagon, what shape would the missiles be?
There wouldn't be any missles.
that's the guy .IndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 3:25 pm
"His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below."
There's a parasite here in Hawaii called 'rat lungworm' and is spread mainly via slugs or snails accidentally eaten in lettuce or other produce, or from drinking out of a gardening hose with slug slime in it. At least one person got it by purposely eating a slug on a dare. The worms are most often found in rats where they collect in the lungs and grow to the adult stage, hence the name. In people, the young stage is often only detectable with a spinal tap, and only after a host of ambiguous symptoms occur. Then the worms go to the brain and feast. We are told to wash our produce, but really, if not cooked, they are still dangerous. It unsettles me cause I like fresh veggies.WhiteAngelica wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:49 pm I am currently really into the show "The Monsters Inside Me."
I can watch it and go, well at least I haven't had a parasitic infection. But these parasites are fascinating!
That is HORRIFYING omg! I like fresh fruit and veg too and honestly I'm pretty lazy about scrubbing it, most things get a quick rinse under the faucet and that's it. I'm going to remember this post next time I bring fresh stuff home from the store, lolIndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:48 amThere's a parasite here in Hawaii called 'rat lungworm' and is spread mainly via slugs or snails accidentally eaten in lettuce or other produce, or from drinking out of a gardening hose with slug slime in it. At least one person got it by purposely eating a slug on a dare. The worms are most often found in rats where they collect in the lungs and grow to the adult stage, hence the name. In people, the young stage is often only detectable with a spinal tap, and only after a host of ambiguous symptoms occur. Then the worms go to the brain and feast. We are told to wash our produce, but really, if not cooked, they are still dangerous. It unsettles me cause I like fresh veggies.WhiteAngelica wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:49 pm I am currently really into the show "The Monsters Inside Me."
I can watch it and go, well at least I haven't had a parasitic infection. But these parasites are fascinating!
I'm never drinking from the hose again and I'm never going to HawaiiIndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:48 amThere's a parasite here in Hawaii called 'rat lungworm' and is spread mainly via slugs or snails accidentally eaten in lettuce or other produce, or from drinking out of a gardening hose with slug slime in it. At least one person got it by purposely eating a slug on a dare. The worms are most often found in rats where they collect in the lungs and grow to the adult stage, hence the name. In people, the young stage is often only detectable with a spinal tap, and only after a host of ambiguous symptoms occur. Then the worms go to the brain and feast. We are told to wash our produce, but really, if not cooked, they are still dangerous. It unsettles me cause I like fresh veggies.WhiteAngelica wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:49 pm I am currently really into the show "The Monsters Inside Me."
I can watch it and go, well at least I haven't had a parasitic infection. But these parasites are fascinating!
Luc Besson's Angel-A is in black and white, and like in most of his films, the female is a force to be reckoned with. It shares with the Sin City films a fantastical element.
Do you still have all your records?herbalhippie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:05 am I didn't get into the Grateful Dead until about 1978 and then I went all out batshit. Went to a record store up in the U district in Seattle and bought every single album they had because I didn't have any up to that point. And then I saw them three times in concert before Jerry Garcia died.
That sounds like an incredible collection, wow. Sorry to hear you lost it.herbalhippie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:18 pm ^^ No, I don't and it's a long, sad story why I don't.
I had a collection of about 400 albums from the late 60s to the mid 80s
OH MY GOD THEY HAD AN EPISODE ON RAT LUNGWORM. IT'S THE EPISODE CALLED, 'SOMETHING IS EATING MY LUNGS'!!!IndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:48 amThere's a parasite here in Hawaii called 'rat lungworm' and is spread mainly via slugs or snails accidentally eaten in lettuce or other produce, or from drinking out of a gardening hose with slug slime in it. At least one person got it by purposely eating a slug on a dare. The worms are most often found in rats where they collect in the lungs and grow to the adult stage, hence the name. In people, the young stage is often only detectable with a spinal tap, and only after a host of ambiguous symptoms occur. Then the worms go to the brain and feast. We are told to wash our produce, but really, if not cooked, they are still dangerous. It unsettles me cause I like fresh veggies.WhiteAngelica wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:49 pm I am currently really into the show "The Monsters Inside Me."
I can watch it and go, well at least I haven't had a parasitic infection. But these parasites are fascinating!
I am so sorry. I was on managed Medicaid and my coverage was rad. Then I HAD to be switched to Medicare for Disability and each doctor visit drains my pockets and my last filled prescription was a whopping 66$. I am on a total of 8 prescriptions, so needless to say, I've thought about becoming the world's worst hooker to supplement the bonkers cost of copays.herbalhippie wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 1:38 pm Getting ready to sign up for Medicare in a few months....
WHAT A PAIN IN THE ASS!!!
Yup, the grossness of brain eating parasites, wish they could initiate a narcoleptic state of beauty rest instead of just killing the host.WhiteAngelica wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:47 pm OH MY GOD THEY HAD AN EPISODE ON RAT LUNGWORM. IT'S THE EPISODE CALLED, 'SOMETHING IS EATING MY LUNGS'!!!
I can't recall, but it might have been in two episodes because in another, a baby got it and the parasitic infection hit his brain. I don't think the end went well.
(PS: we should do a little trade soon!)
I am aghast that people are essentially giving themselves a parasitic infection that has no cure. ONE THAT EATS THE BRAIN. I thought the tide pod challenge was obscenely dumb, kind of like the self-strangulation one. But no. Parasitic infections are hard to diagnose because it literally hides from a CT scan! There is no treatment, only maintenance until a certain death. Do you know this has also been found in Louisiana? No where near near like the Island. But. The Monsters Inside Me has opened my eyes to the wonderful world of parasites.IndelibleDotInk wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:20 pmYup, the grossness of brain eating parasites, wish they could initiate a narcoleptic state of beauty rest instead of just killing the host.WhiteAngelica wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:47 pm OH MY GOD THEY HAD AN EPISODE ON RAT LUNGWORM. IT'S THE EPISODE CALLED, 'SOMETHING IS EATING MY LUNGS'!!!
I can't recall, but it might have been in two episodes because in another, a baby got it and the parasitic infection hit his brain. I don't think the end went well.
(PS: we should do a little trade soon!)
You've been quiet lately, wondering what happened.
PS... try Bree's premium red super, he's got kilos 25% off til Sunday. Best hitting red so far. Had to ask if he'd spiked it with extract, and nope, it just lives up to the super part. Aloha.
