Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Tim Tylor's LiveJournal:

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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
10:11 pm	Horrible effects of cumulative jam toxicity Things I learned from Corman's Wasp Woman (Youtube link) ( Spoilers. Short version - this is Not an underrated masterpiece. ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
9:12 pm	The Herbert Luvvyduvvy Awards for Elegant Golden-Age Comicbook Prose "...A dark ominous shadow disjointed itself from the eerie grotesque boles bordering the steaming, cobbled street..." The Clock Struck Doom, Black Cat Mystery #37, posted at Pappy's Golden Age Comic Blogzine. According to the online dictionaries, "bole" is either the trunk of a tree, clay, paint, or a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa. Can't see any of those in the pictures... Current Mood: giggly (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
11:28 am	The Left-Behind Theory of Big Voids in Seattle Could this... explain that? (Video) Current Mood: silly (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
2:44 pm	Cowboys and zombies, hard-boiled crime and zombies, space invasions and zombies, Regency romance and zombies... basically, zombies are the new fries. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
3:10 pm	Quick check - is anyone else finding every single Google search result for any term apart from Youtube pages flagged "This site may harm your computer"? Update: Okay, it's not just me and the mescalin then. Current Music: Die You Zombie Bastards (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 26th, 2008
11:14 pm	Tim Likes To Rant Insanely About Bad Movies ( Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008) isn't very good. (Mild spoilers) ) (Disclaimer: The above was written in the grip of mild flu. I'm looking through jaundice-coloured glasses right now.) Current Mood: nauseated (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
7:16 pm	I've got an Earworm, A teeny tiny Earworm... It's a rock-and-roll number with an irresistable tune and a lyric composed of random cliché porridge run through a fit-the-rhyme program, or sounds like it - Ride a circle round the Sun / Touch - The - truth and burn! / Like a Mes-Sage on the run / Sea-sons change, turn turn turn! "In the name of Liberty" and "Heal this loss in me" are in there too. I want the witless thing out of my head. Now. Actually, the band responsible have a lot of pretty fine numbers too. Maybe this one's their equivalent of Tailsteak's The Band's Parsnip Song. Though that's angry energetic nonsense and my earworm is sappy-clappy Bad Eurovision nonsense. On closer websearching, I find it was "written for Key to the North, a film about Newark's involvement in the English Civil War". Which clarifies nothing. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
1:09 pm	Stan Lee's Harpies (YouTube clip) makes me appreciate the true genius of Ray Harryhausen. I mean, by comparison. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
1:40 am	If I cannot forget this, I will never sleep again. "Baby Laugh-a-Lot" doll commercial. (YouTube) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
2:04 am	Babble I really really want to see a Scott Bateman video of Re your brains. Really. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
9:51 pm	Some favorite linkies. For those not sick of the economic fubar, HowStuffWorks.com on Credit Default Swaps. Page one is a beautifully nasty analogy for this part of the frakkin' mess. For those who think that after all the bad nights it's given us, economics owes us a bedtime story: Daniel Abraham's The Cambist and Lord Iron. A Wildean fairytale giving an economics lesson of a different sort: not so much about how the systems work as about what trade and exchange and wealth actually mean. For those who want to change the topic entirely: Puppet for Your Thoughts from Larry Blamire's Tales from the Pub short video series. Twilight Zone melted into Monty Python. This link dedicated to the great kevinjdog. :) (Comment on this)
Monday, September 15th, 2008
9:45 pm	Localicalities Bits and bods on my home town, for all whom it may concern. A potted intro, not entirely flattering but basically accurate. The centre's in the throes of a much-delayed makeover, so is progressively getting poshed up and prettified. A more colourful piece from the local historical society. We're not the most exciting of towns but we do have some nice bits of building round the place. :) Lo, our rail station has its own Wikipedia entry. A ghost story. The southwest has more phantom hounds than rabbits, almost. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 15th, 2008
1:10 am	Aggadon't Satire can backfire like a Stephen King clown-car. Summer of 1986, this frakkin' song was everywhere and driving me NUTS. And returned in after years as the local Christmas pantomime singalong number. (Youtube video of the original comedy sketch. I'll concede it's funny there... but it didn't stay there...) Current Music: 4'33" (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
11:13 pm	Rugose goodness The yellow dog rocks mightily. Thanks, Thomas. :D (Comment on this)
8:52 pm	"One of my ancestors, the first owner of this house, practiced black magic with the aid of mystic candles made from bat's eggs and strands of hangman's rope for the wicks!" (Pre-code horror comic The Beyond, no. 12,, courtesy of Wowio and Hero Initiative) Black magic is a lot harder than it looks. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Monday, July 21st, 2008
6:57 pm	Holy Massively Overused Clich-ay, Blogreaderperson! When the collecting bug goes buggy The comic is now ready to be fitted inside an archival-quality interior well, which is then sealed within a transparent capsule, along with the book’s color-coded label. This is accomplished through a combination of compression and ultrasonic vibration. The result is a newly-encapsulated CGC comic, ready to be shipped to its proud owner. Em-hem. I suppose the conflict between keeping collectable things safe and sellable vs. being able to enjoy-them-as-meant comes to a head with comics. "Book" books are relatively robust, and you can see a baseball card fine inside a transparent plastic box. But comicbooks have the tragic combination of flimsiness and interior pages. And so it becomes a common though controversial practice for collectors to have their comics professionally checked for quality and sealed away in "Quality guaranteed, void if opened" boxes. I understand it, but it still tastes like Python to me. Current Music: Liberty Bell March, yes, that version (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
1:35 am	A little bed-time thought The idea that ghosts are hallucinations is creepier than by the thought of them being real. You could avoid "real" ghosts by staying out of haunted properties, cemetries etc. But hallucinations can happen to you anywhere. >;D (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
6:19 pm	Coulrophobia for fun These days the major western folk-demons are Vampires, Werewolves and Clowns. The first two have a steady tradition, moon garlic graves silverbullet pointysticks yadda yadda, largely patched up by Hollywood from bits of folklore and Stoker, but they seem okay with it. But clowns are starved of back-story - Monday morning, they're happy serial killers, Tuesday lunch they're aliens in fright wigs and by Thursday they're Tim Curry down a storm-drain prattling about buoyancy. Justice demands they be given their own consistent mythos. ( Maybe something like... ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
12:43 am	Being poor on architecture I'm wondering what the official term is for the "American Stereotype Haunted" house-style favored by the Addamses and the Bateses. The sort with the cute turrets and the steep roofs topped with spiky-railed platforms. (I don't think there's a British Stereotype Haunted style, which is maybe a pity.) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
11:53 am	Destined for the 23rd circle of Hell, the one filled with custard Seen on a Youtube webpage, a big yellow Google-syndicated ad for "Wacky Prank Calls" offering such delights as "You got my daughter pregnant", "The IRS wants 20K", "You were caught downloading porn". Coming up soon, a detective breaks down in tears as he tries to read a thirty-page murder-suspect list... (Comment on this)