http://neomodernist.org/wordpress Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Babes in peril and perilous babes: Burn, Witch, Burn The Innocents Rosemary's Baby Damien: Omen II. The Omen Omen III: The Final Conflict The Haunting I Walked with a Zombie Classically creepy: The Spiral Staircase Curse of the Demon Peeping Tom Seance on a Wet Afternoon Subtly sinister: Don't Look Now Immortality Cat People Subtitled terror: A Tale of Two Sisters The Devil's Backbone Open Your Eyes Les Diaboliques Campy ... http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/10/01/thirty-one-horrors/ My birthday is in 17 days. I will be turning 26. I will be turning 26 because I have decided to calculate my age based on the theory that "40 is the new 30." This year I want to go out for an elegant, high end dinner ... http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/05/01/who-knows-your-birthday-who-knows-your-number/ Everyone from the BBC to Gawker to Game Spot to The Onion has been talking about Grand Theft Auto IV. So far the game has garnered rave reviews. I guess that means I'm not the only person who enjoys shooting people in the head and driving recklessly. ... http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/04/29/take-me-down-in-liberty-city/ Today's intermède amusant comes to us via Facebook, via the lovable Kate. http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/03/25/no-stone-throwing-regardless-of-housing-situation/ http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/03/20/current-facebook-status/ Waldo Jaquith, web developer to The Virginia Quarterly Review, wanted to demonstrate that using clichés in your poetry won't get you published. Ironically, he ended up proving the exact opposite. Jaquith compiled statistics on poetry submissions "covering clichéd topics," presumably to discourage poets from submitting any more poems about blood, ... http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/03/18/its-a-cliche-for-a-reason/ My brother recently converted the web page for his record label of recordings to a blog. He and his partner Aaron will post new releases there, along with witty musings about taxonomy, the Golden Break, and basketball. http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/03/14/tagging-tracks/ I knew if I procrastinated long enough someone would invent a robot to do my housework. http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/03/10/like-jeeves-only-less-witty/ After more than a decade together, my dad and Miss J. finally decided to get married. They further decided to get married on February 29th, in Detroit, at a beautiful Victorian inn, with a non-traditional ceremony. That's just how they roll. In January, my dad asked me if I ... http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/02/29/livestock-is-eaten-money-is-spent/ Someone on the Saturday Night Live writing staff spent the entire writer's strike watching Oscar nominees and the Food Network. http://neomodernist.org/wordpress/2008/02/24/something-funny-happened-on-snl-seriously/