Randy | October 14, 2013
“My role, which began as designer, transformed into maker, sculptor, scientist, celebrant, dresser and death-wear facilitator. Garments for the Grave is a practice that has emerged from previous project work, and uses skills from the fashion realm whilst incorporating elements of funeral celebrancy. It is a practice that functions as ritual engaged through the creation […]
Randy | October 13, 2013
I once convinced a small group of idiots that my birth certificate had an expiry date stamped on it. Don’t try this yourselves though, because my powers of persuasion exceed that of mere mortals, and I’d hate to be responsible for any of you hurting yourselves; at least if I’m not there to watch. Good […]
Randy | October 12, 2013
As if yesterday’s coverage wasn’t enough, I couldn’t resist trotting out The Old Hag just one more time. After all, in another life, I was married to her for quite a while, and back then, trotted her out more than a few times. Today we’ve got the trailer, and a sequence of ten bits of […]
Randy | October 11, 2013
So on his Nightmare through the evening fog Flits the squab Fiend o’er fen, and lake, and bog; Seeks some love-wilder’d maid with sleep oppress’d, Alights, and grinning sits upon her breast. ~ Night-Mare ~ Erasmus Darwin O’er her fair limbs convulsive tremors fleet, Start in her hands, and struggle in her feet; In vain […]
Randy | October 10, 2013
This poem was inspired by a combination of actual events – some of my own experience, and others reported to me. The character of Death came from a brief encounter with a striking black gent who strode through the front door of the Bridgewater South Shore Regional Hospital one cold morning while Mrs. LFM and […]
Randy | October 9, 2013
Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man? A miserable little clerk crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help. No securities, […]
Randy | October 8, 2013
Back while Dark Sentiments 2011 was in full swing, a Physician I hold in high Esteem placed in my hand a very curious artifact indeed. It was a whip fashioned in the form of three knotted leather falls that splayed forth from a darkly stained, wear polished handle crafted from a Human tibia – the primary […]
Randy | October 7, 2013
Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz of Villafane Studios have been a necessity here since the very first season. This year on 19 and 20 October 2013, they are once again participating in The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Zoological Garden (that annual NYZG event is on now, and runs until 31 October 2013). The […]
Randy | October 6, 2013
A whole 31 days in October every year, and it still can’t hold all the shit I find in the 12 months leading up to it. Ah well, one does what one can. “Frozen Dead Guy Days” is an annual event held in Nederland, Colorado – next scheduled for 7, and, and 9 March 2014 – […]
Randy | October 5, 2013
Brown Bag Films is an Irish company described on its website as: Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studio. Since 1994, their Dublin-based headquarters have produced cutting-edge animation for the international market, bagging numerous awards along the way. These include Oscar® nominations for Give Up Yer Aul Sins (2002), Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty […]