Megan Abbott emailed this morning. She's thinking of rereading
H.P. Lovecraft for the holidays (!) and wanted to know my favorite stories of his. By coincidence (OR WAS IT?) there was a Lovecraft allusion on last night's
ADVENTURE TIME, when a little creature on a pilgrimage, hoping to see a god, saw
Finn eating
spaghetti instead. The poor little thing cried out, "I thought you'd be beautiful!" and started weeping and melted. And by coincidence (OR WAS IT?) yesterday's ADVENTURE TIME meeting was about a creepy episode idea from
Seo Kim (who also storyboarded last night's episode
along with Somvilay Xayaphone). It was also based on a night terror (OR WAS IT?) that a friend of
Kent's had. And by coincidence (OR WAS IT?) I ran out of things to read on airplanes and at an
LAX souvenir shop where by coincidence (OR WAS IT?) a large glowing poster of pal
Mary Miller's novel THE LAST DAYS OF CALIFORNIA decorated the register I bought the new, Lovecraftian
Stephen King novel. (Also in that souvenir shop: a lifesized cardboard cutout of
Martin Short, for which I fantasized about buying a seat next to me on the airplane.) Also (OR WAS IT?) I have been tweeting little fragments of
the ghost book I just finished reading to Megan and
Jimmy, like so:
And
Bill Boyle, inspired by this, emailed Jimmy and Megan and me some scary "links" to recordings of
poltergeist activity (little kids talking in
SHINING voices, yaaaah!
Dr. Theresa hates it when I say in a raspy voice, "Jack's not here, Mrs. Pendarvis" - as much as I hate and fear
her creepy impression of Helena Bonham Carter in FRANKENSTEIN! - so I guess Bill Boyle has taught me a valuable lesson in empathy) and
a medium named Leslie Flint channeling
the Brontë sisters. I shan't include the "links" lest they drive you mad with fear (see Lovecraft). Hey did I ever tell you that one of
my little sister's first words as a baby was "poltergeist"? True story! Plus I'm reading
that dang vampire novel now, what is wrong with me. OR WAS IT
