• TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 天前

    As someone who has lived in New England for the last 30 years, I have to tell you that that description is bullshit.

    The old man who runs the dump keeps his hand of glory in a Red Sox glass. The Bruins mug belongs to his son.

      • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 小时前

        well, yeah… me being anal: song was Hotel California - an awesome song and my 10 yo brain had a completely different story to that then the band did :)

        also from the same time period… roach motel - roaches check in, but don’t check out!

  • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 天前

    Ohhh hand of glory reference; that’s some solid old school necromantic wish magic. Ah fair New England, gotta have more damned men hung to turn them hands into candles of their own fats.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    2 天前

    [off topic?]

    There’s a scene at the start of ‘Apocalypse Now’ where Martin Sheen gets drunk in a Saigon hotel room and practices Tai-Chi.

    When I saw it, I thought it was complete Hollywood bullshit.

    They did a 20th Anniversary doc about the movie and interviewed a bunch of veterans.

    One authentic CIA operator said that getting drunk and doing Tai-Chi was exactly the sort of thing Sheen’s character would have done.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 天前

      Also he was actually drunk, he actually punched a real mirror, and really cut himself.

      Everyone in that movie was high as balls the entire time.

  • sumsinj@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 天前

    I am reading It right now and is it only me that thinks the sexualization of the 11yo is kinda awkward?

  • nocturne@piefed.socialEnglish
    49·
    2 天前

    Lovecraft was from New England too and wrote about some pretty weird shit happening up there too.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      2 天前

      H. P. Lovecraft wrote about ghouls, canine-human hybrid creatures that lived in tunnels underneath Providence and raided graves to devour dead human flesh and bones.

      When I visited my uncle in Providence, he casually mentioned the native coyote population, which lives in burrows in the side of the hill under the old cemetery.

      So there are literally dog creatures tunnelling under the graves in Providence, and I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if old Howard Phillips once saw one with a bone in its mouth, and immediately ran to his typewriter to write about the unspeakable horror of it all.

      • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 天前

        I love Pickman’s Model. I feel like it doesn’t get brought up enough when talking about Lovecraft. I think it would be perfect for an adaptation (Night Gallery wasn’t bad though) and/or expanded stories in the same setting

    • ThisOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      2 天前

      Not everything up here is creepy.

      The fall is really nice. And they only found a chopped up body in the pond that one time in the spring. Though fall leaves are a lot to clean up.

          • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            10 小时前

            I don’t know, but it always tried to kill us (like the breaks and seatbelts stopping functioning) and break down suspiciously at the worst times, and then working like nothing happened when it was all over. We did call it Christine BTW.

            It was a volvo-renault so maybe that unholy mix was the fault.

    • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 天前

      I have to admit that in this very specific case drugs and achool were awesome. His work was incredible!

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        I don’t know why he’s so good. His plots were stupid and his characters are 1 dimensional, but the books were great.

        He’ll have a plot like “An old polaroid camera always prints a picture of a mean dog, with the dog getting closer to the camera each shot” and somehow it ends up being a good read?

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed”

        Drugs and alcohol disturb you, which means that 1. They make you more likely to make art and 2. They technically qualify as art themselves if you are comfortable before you use them

  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 天前

    Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn’t a hook. Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never make up. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    28·
    2 天前

    I’ve somehow made friends with a crow. It comes and sits outside the window in the morning, when I go to the bathroom first time. I haven’t been nice. I guess I’ve said hello a couple of times, but only 2 or 3.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      8·
      2 天前

      I’m working on making friends with a local murder. Four of them have gotten used to showing up in the mid-afternoon and cawing loudly until I come out and toss them some peanuts.

      I’m trying to attract them closer, and it’s working. I’m hoping to be hand feeding them in a few weeks.

    • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      2 天前

      If you’ve a fishing shop near you that’ll sell you a tub of mealworms, then you could make a new best friend…?

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      I started a story recently about an animal lover who accidentally angers the mother crow living outside his apartment and gets blacklisted.

  • Mike D@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    2 天前

    My parents live not too far away away from him. They always tell me when someone sees him at the supermarket. Apparently he is spooky.

    • AEsheron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 天前

      Same. They also told me his neighbor was a prick, and when he pissed him off King would line up small rocks on is lawn and drive over them with his lawnmower to launch them towards the neighbor’s house. Can’t comment on the veracity, but it somehow feels like something he would do imo.

  • doodahjones@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    2 天前

    The writer John Connolly’s “Charlie Parker” books are partly about how weird Maine is. Some of his descriptions can get your small hairs standing up.