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The Mercury Men

| 15. September 2011

My good friend Timo just brought this little ætherweb gem to my attention: The Mercury Men   Good job I mentioned Atompunk just two days ago, this fits the bill, somewhat. The Mercury Men is quite a cool mix and new take on several genres. Jack Yaeger looks and acts like a pulp novel hero [...]

John Carter of Mars – The Movie

| 16. Juli 2011

One of the greatest epics of the golden age of pulp sci-fi, John Carter of Mars, is coming to the Big Screen! Oh glorious cinematography! For some eldritch reasons the people making the movie have decided to skip the “of Mars” bit, though. Strange… “John Carter” as a movie title sounds so much like “Joe [...]

The Ward – H.P. Lovecraft inspired sitcom

| 10. April 2011

Good job I regularly check out what my good friend Captain Serenus is doing over at Clockworker (see sidebar for link). Otherwise I would have probably failed to mention this excellent sitcom The Ward on my blog. Since the Cthulhu Mythos is the second main theme of this blog, it would have been quite disgraceful [...]

Recommended Podcast: The Gearheart

| 3. September 2010

Last night, while once more being on the site of my favourite educational podcats Skeptoid, I read Brian Dunning’s annoucement Skeptoid being a finalist for this year’s Parsec Awards in the category Fact Behind the Fiction. Good luck, Brian, you have my support! So I went over to the Parsec Awards’ Website and had a [...]

Happy Birthday Mr. Lovecraft

| 20. August 2010

If he would still be with us today, H.P. Lovecraft, Master of the Macabre, Pulp-Icon, my favourite author and responsible for part of my son’s name, would celebrate his 120th birthday today. So, let’s take a moment to skip through the pages of the many versions of the Necronomicon available today, take out one of [...]

Diesel-Pulp-Minimovies

| 15. Juli 2010

Just recently stumbled across the Youtube Channel of Battlejitni, so far there are only two videos in it, but it sure looks promising. One is a trailer, the other one is the following: It looks a lot like pulp and it sure is fun, and it does not take itself too seriously, and that’s something [...]