Category: quick thought

Old Toys, New Toys

My Mother-In-Law has me figured to a tee. While sorting through her closet, she came up with this item, and thought that I might like it.

Step Into The Third Dimension

“Step Into The Third Dimension” not ringing a bell as a Price classic? I understand why you might be confused, as the credits make it seem like this is actually a dramatic production – it is not. That thing he’s holding isn’t a device to suck your soul from your body, it’s a 3D camera.

Nishika

Also, Nishika sounds like the name of a Russian-trained attack dog.

It takes two rolls of film, and to have them developed you needed to send them to a company that I can only assume is long defunct. I’ve seen indications online that it may be possible to self-develop the pictures, so I may have to buy a bunch of cheap cardboard glasses.

I found a reproduction of the instructional video on youtube, but I really want to drag out our actual VCR to get the full effect.

On Graves & Threats

Forget child safety, I miss the days when a toy would flat out threaten you with supernatural murder.
Aurora Ad

My face feels like it’s been reconstructed in a lab: faster, stronger, better than before.

Speaking of re-purposing – I wanted to point out that the current Blackhall three-parter (The Last Ghost Story) actually began life as a rough draft for a submission to the briefly resurrected version of “Tales From The Crypt” that was put out by Papercutz. I actually prefer the way I’m presenting it now though, as straight prose gives me more opportunity to chew up the clichéd ghostly gimmicks.

Still, it would have been a great point of pride to have Mr. C. Keeper as a reference.

Killer Klowns

Killer Klowns
We watched Killer Klowns From Outer Space last night.

Klowns has always been a bit of an oddity to me. It’s obviously a ridiculously goofy movie, but it’s never played as anything but earnest – and I love it because of that.

Post Scream/Scary Movie every bad movie actor is on on the joke, and that guts a lot of the magic of watching a terrible film. I’m convinced Killer Klowns is only remembered from an era with a glut of bad horror because of its earnestness. If they’d gone into it like, say, Hobgoblins, it would edge out of enjoyable and into “Shut Up”.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFHBtu6Nb40]

Shocking

Shock Belt Yikes – something I hadn’t heard of, from the Wikipedia:

A stun belt is a belt that is fastened around the subject’s waist, leg, or arm that carries a battery and control pack, and contains features to stop the subject from unfastening or removing it. A remote-control signal is sent to tell the control pack to give the subject an electric shock. Some models are activated by the subject’s movement.

The United States uses these devices to control prisoners.

There’s a lot to debate, but this strikes me as a technology that’s going to immediately be misused if it ever hits the general public.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL05GMXWX54]

Steam Launch

I don’t usually do photo posts, but while at the locks the other day we came across a couple of steam launches moored for a lay-over, and I snapped these with my iPhone:

Steam Launch #1

A little smaller than The African Queen, but still an amazing piece of work.

Steam Launch #2They seemed to have to periodically warm the boiler – unseen in these photos is the pile of wood they were carrying to feed the fire.

Steam Launch #3Look at all those valves; I’ve never had interest in buying a boat, but the shear level of fuss-pottery that seemed to be involved actually makes ownership of one of these tempting.

Your Fetish Update

Sushi Art

This weekend I had reason to google  shrinking machines. After some clicking about, a note near the bottom of this wikipedia article caught my attention:

Size-changing has recently been seen as a sexual fetish with the advent of the internet. Macrophilia/Microphilia, and to some extent vorarephilia are rooted in size-changing fiction. Social networking sites such as Writing.com, DeviantArt, and YouTube have thousands of user-submitted stories, groups, blogs, video, and artwork related to microphilia.

Well, all right, not the most disturbing fetish I’ve ever encountered on the internet – weird, but then, all sex is weird.

My eye stuck on that one interior mention however, Vorarephilia? Wha?

Oh, Wikipedia:

Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a sexual fetish and paraphilia where arousal occurs from the idea of being eaten or by the process of eating. The fantasy may involve the person being swallowed alive, and may or may not include digestion.

The word vorarephilia is derived from the Latin vorare (to ‘swallow’ or ‘devour’) and Ancient Greek φιλία (philia, ‘love’).

I find that middle sentence especially interesting – is there already splintering amongst the vorarephiliacs? A virulently pro-digestion sect? Maybe a holier-than-thou group who find the ‘swallowed alive’ people to be perverted degenerates?