Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction of James Sallis
Man, Sallis could write.
12.03.2026 03:09
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Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction of James Sallis
Man, Sallis could write.
The Future of Horror Movies Is on YouTube www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Oh, absolutely agree on all counts.
I used to say Stanley Kubrick was my favorite director. I had reasons. Take a look at his filmography and you’ll understand why I stood by that. And then I started thinking and realizing that John Carpenter more resembled the inside of my brain.
They Live
THEY LIVE is one of the greatest documentaries ever made. I won’t be taking questions.
All the cops in the donut shops say…
Beavis and Butthead Do America is one of the funniest movies ever made. I won’t be taking questions.
Note to self: Read more Don Winslow.
Self portrait in orange.
Two years ago today I was wheeled into the operating room to undergo bypass surgery, after repeated angina and avoiding a widowmaker heart attack by mere weeks.
To my own amazement, I’m still here.
Finished a story for the first time in far too long.
02/07/2026 BLACK HISTORY MONTH: P.M. Raymond www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/02-07-2...
Enjoy! It’s among my favorite novels in any genre.
Seven (More) Favorite Horror Books
Fever Dream by S. Schweblin
Unboxed by B. Morgan
Crypt of the Moon Spider by N. Ballingrud
Killer on the Road by S. G. Jones
Incidents Around the House by J. Malerman
Corpsemouth by @mrgaunt.bsky.social
Experimental Film by @gemmafiles.bsky.social
Seven Favorite Horror Books
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
Keeper of the Children by William H. Hallahan
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Carrie by Stephen King
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin)
Blade Runner Live.
Tonight.
One Battle After Another
Reds
Last night’s movie vs. tonight’s movie.
I see a pattern.
I’m watching Gareth Edwards’s MONSTERS, which I haven’t seen since its release, and I’m sobbing at its climax, at these two damaged people at the end of the world just trying to manage the world they’ve been thrust in to. And I wish we had a better one.
I’m never going to write a word again.
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — James Joyce, Ulysses
That Coogler’s horror epic immediately became the focus of genre dialogue is amazing enough. But 16 Oscar nominations? That’s impressive.
Videodrome quote.
Good morning.
House of Laughing Windows Blu-Ray (Arrow Video), The Lost District by Joel Lane, A24 birthday tee.
Today’s mail is an accurate depiction of the inside of my brain.
Dead Man’a Wire (d. Gus Van Sant)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (d. Peter Jackson)
Trying to decide which to see today. I have a ticket for one. The other would eat up my entire afternoon.
I keep forgetting how much of The Last Starfighter is modeled after a Heinlein juvenile.
Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination
“This was a Golden Age, a time high adventure, rich living, and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
The Last Starfighter is at Flix on 1/13…the same day as my ticket to Darkman.
What say you? Should I stick with my original birthday movie, or see an unsung sci-fi gem?
Feels like every day is 11/5 now.
