Bartholomew Jones Goes to Australia

Tonight--or, rather, over one hundred years ago--big game hunter Bartholomew Jones set foot on the shores of Sydney, Australia. Bart has been hospitalized several times and very nearly lost his sanity on his long trek from New York to London to Cairo to Kenya to Down Under, but so far the worst that's happened is he's been fined for bringing an improperly registered elephant gun into the country. This is dealt with much more easily than the eldritch horrors he's faced on other continents . . . 
 

Occult Science Reservist

What eldritch horror compels this man to rend his hair asunder? 

 

All-Seeing Eye

You get some pretty kooky results if you prompt Stable Diffusion with this: 

Portrait of the Eye of the Illuminati Pyramid, fnord, Illuminatus! trilogy, George Washington, 23 enigma, sinister, strange, Cthulu Mythos, Book of the Dead, black helicopters, men in black, Principia Discordia, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, science fiction, conspiracy, fnord, Bavarian Illuminati, Hauptmann, vibrant color, concept art, pixiv, 8 k, balanced composition, cinematic lighting, trending on artstation

Hardware Connections

A few days ago I watched Color Out of Space, a pretty decent adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's creepy Cthulu Mythos tale. After logging the film in Letterboxd, I reviewed the rest of director Richard Stanley's filmography, and was surprised to discover he directed cyberpunk thriller Hardware, a considerably less accomplished film, in my view.

However, Hardware features a pretty catchy tune by Public Image Ltd., "The Order of Death," or as I always remember it, "This is what you want...this is what you get...this is what you want...this is what you get..."

I haven't seen Hardware or heard the song in years, so I was surprised earlier tonight to hear "The Order of Death" featured in a late season two episode of Mr. Robot, which Sylvia and I are working our way through. (An excellent series, by the way.)

It means nothing, of course; such connections are all around us. But it still struck me as a little weird. 

An Evening With Dread Cthulhu

Pete Kickstarted a Cthulu game, and this "miniature" of dread Cthulu himself was the first piece to arrive. This photo doesn't do the piece justice. It'll look even more amazing when Pete paints it, as I'm sure he will.