Who do you blame when all your dreams come true?

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Fortunately not in person, ap_aelfwine just introduced me to Jack Parsons. I cannot imagine how I never heard of him before, but between the rocket science, the moonchild, and the fulminate of mercury, there's a beautiful secret history here. Has someone alerted Tim Powers?

I am so looking forward to PJ Harvey's new album, and not just because its songs are titled things like "Cracks in the Canvas" and "The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go."

This is merely lovely: death (and vampirism) in Venice.

"To kill the vampire you had to remove the shroud from its mouth, which was its food like the milk of a child, and put something uneatable in there," Mr Borrini said. "It's possible that other corpses have been found with bricks in their mouths, but this is the first time the ritual has been recognised."

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So BE GOOD! FOR GOODNESS SAAAAAKE! WOAH! SOMEBODY'S COMING!

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Ah, yes, Jack. Some point I have to lend you the book that introduced him to me. Rumor has it that he put together a ritual designed to bring about the end of the world (and now it looks like it may just happen! ...erm... Sorry that part was Egon Spengler). I should haul out the book (Book of Lies from Misinformation Press) that introduced me to him and lend it to you.

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I could swear I replied to this comment. Yet there appears to be no reply. So—

Some point I have to lend you the book that introduced him to me.

I would like that very much.

Sorry that part was Egon Spengler

Dude, I don't think adding Ghostbusters to the life of Jack Parsons could weird it out any further. If anything, it might normalize it.