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I believe, and so do you, that things could have been different in countless ways. But what does this mean? Ordinary language permits the paraphrase: there are many ways things could have been besides the way they actually are. I believe that things could have been different in countless ways; I believe permissible paraphrases of what I believe; taking the paraphrase at its face value, I therefore believe in the existence of entities that might be called ‘ways things could have been.’ I prefer to call them ‘possible worlds’.

― David Kellogg Lewis

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March 2023 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Author of STARS COLLIDE Rachel Lacey‘s COVER STORY, a sapphic bodyguard romance featuring an A-list actress in need of extra protection who hires a female bodyguard to pose as her girlfriend in order to keep the real story under wraps, again to Lauren Plude at Montlake, by Sarah Younger at Nancy Yost Literary Agency (world). Laura R. Samotin‘s THE SINS ON THEIR BONES, pitched as…

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MISTER QUICK MARKT / ZOMBIE FUNNY YUMMY CORNFLAKES

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On Writing

Rediscovering Stephen King's "On Writing" after a 6-year hiatus. From pandemic reflections to an EMBA class, join me on a journey of embracing creativity, facing fears, and the disciplined pursuit of writing. #StephenKing #OnWriting #WritingJourney

6 years of avoidance A friend gave me Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft in 2018. The timing was ironic: I was in the midst of a self-inflicted professional fall-out triggered by my former blog. Soon after, I made the decision to put my career over my voice. I hid On Writing at the back of one of my bookshelves. It was a painful reminder of what might have been. Then the pandemic…

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Nine to Midnight IV (<- link!) just released!! It’s an annual anthology of spooky audio fiction short stories by horror podcasters. I’m not affiliated in any way, but I wanted to compile a list of everyone involved to celebrate the wealth of talent that came together this year and make it even easier to check out all their other projects.

Full credits under the cut but just to whet anyone’s curiosity, some exciting callouts that I personally recognized include stories from the creators of @malevolentcast, @hellofromthehallowoods, @thestoragepapers, @hinaypod, @re-dracula, @ethicstownpod , @woebegonepod , @wakeofcorrosion , @thenightpost , @hellgatecity , @ostiumpodcast , @souloperatorpod , and more and more!

HEAVY FLOW

Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay)

Nathan Lunsford (The Storage Papers)

PODDINGTON

Kevin Berrey (Hell Gate City)

David Ault (SO many shows, including NoSleep, The White Vault, RE: Dracula, Woe.BeGone, and more.)

Rýne Scrin

Shaun Pellington (Wake of Corrosion)

David Ault (davidault.co.uk)

The Earth Will Determine

Emily Kellogg, Alex Nursall, and Ian Boddy from Woodbine and Parkdale Haunt

Day 153

From the The Grotto Pod

Specifically: Athan, Derek Moreland, Joshua, ARI, Bryce, Ava, and Violet

Out of Hot Water

Dylan Griggs (Woe.Begone)

Sibling Rivalry

Rae Lundberg (The Night Post)

Cleanup on Aisle Two

Shelby Novak (Scare You To Sleep)

Pacific S. Obadiah (SCP Archives, RE: Dracula, and more)

CONTENT

Tal Minear (many things, such as RE: Dracula, Sidequesting, and more)

The Birdcatcher

Michael Alan Herman & Josie Eli Herman of Acorn Arts and Entertainment (Silvertongues, The Call of the Void, and more)

I was born James Theodore Parkin

David Ault (davidault.co.uk)

Making Friends

Tatiana Gefter (Soul Operator)

J Strautman (Planet Arcana, Soul Operator strautmaskreplica.carrd.co)

Shaun Oldfield (Planet Arcana, instagram.com/sj.oldfield)

Tatiana Gefter (The Department of Variance of Somewhere Ohio, Woe.Begone, Nowhere On Air, Soul Operator, Wake of Corrosions, and more: tatianagefter-va.carrd.co)

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From the creatives behind Ethics Town

Specifically: Ollie Bannerman, CL Hendry, Cai Gwilym Pritchard, Ollie Bannerman, Evan Gwen Davies, Cai Gwilym Pritchard and Eli Labat-Angstadt.

Home

From the 400 Words A Horror Team

Specifically: Lyssa Jay, Gem Aydin, Just Jenah, Prax Kilowatt, Shaun Pellington, Taylor Michaels, and more

Hungrier

William A. Wellman (Hello From the Hallowoods)

Going Down

Jesse Syratt (Nowhere, On Air)

Tatiana Gefter (Soul Operator)

Taylor Micheals (The Grotto)

Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay)

Tal Minear (RE: Dracula)

The Witch of November

Three Fates (You are the Ghost in This House, Points of Articulation)

Specifically: Fiona Clare, Paige Elizabeth Allen, and Hannah Semmelhack, additional materials by C. Luke Soucy; recording, mixing, sound design by Rhea Patil; performances from Fiona Clare, Paige Allen, Nora Aguiar, C. Lucy Soucy

A Thousand Cuts

Alex C. Telander (The Ostium Network: Ostium, Circe, Manifestations)

Puppy Play

Jamie (The Cellar Letters)

Specifically: Grinner Media, Nathan Lunsford, Jeremy Enfinger, Nathan Lunsford, and Tatiana Gefter

The Sound

Harlan Guthrie (Malevolent, Deviser, Dice Shame)

The Feed

Ryan Joseph Murphy (Your Horror Show)

Brady Flanagan (Rogue Life)

Hopefully this is a helpful reference for fans looking for an easy reference to see which stories their favorite artists have worked on and help discover new ones! (Happy to make edits upon request!)

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@pscentral event 17: vibrance

DANCING IN FILM: @rogerdeakinsdp birthday edition

A Life Less Ordinary (1997) dir. Danny Boyle, chgph. Adam Shankman Do The Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee, chgph. Rosie Perez To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) dir. Beeban Kidron, chgph. Kenny Ortega Clueless (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling, chgph. Mary Ann Kellogg Charlie's Angels (2000) dir. McG, chgph. Marguerite Derricks What's Love Got To Do With It (1993) dir. Brian Gibson, chgph. Michael Peters Barb Wire (1996) dir. David Hogan Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) dir. Ol Parker, chgph. Anthony Van Laast Legally Blonde (2001) dir. Robert Luketic, chgph. Toni Basil Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne, chgph. Jeffrey Hornaday Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks, chgph. Jack Cole 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger, chgph. Marguerite Derricks Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve, chgph. Viktória Jaross Billy Elliot (2000) dir. Stephen Daldry, chgph. Peter Darling Mamma Mia! (2008) dir. Phyllida Lloyd, chgph. Anthony Van Laast

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Inspector Gadget - (1999) dir. David Kellogg

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Star Wars and Motorsports - A Surprisingly Intertwined History.

I actually had this blogpost planned out for a rainy day - I thought about maybe doing it for May 4th, 2025 as a Star Wars Day thingie - however, today, James Earl Jones passed away at the age of 93. I knew him as Darth Vader and Mufasa, but he played a lot of roles and provided a lot of iconic voices, others may know him from the Sandlot, Coming to America, or dozens of other roles over the years.

Rest in peace.

In his honor, I'd like to do my little part, so...a discussion of the long and intertwined history of Star Wars and motorsports.

The first relates to Darth Vader himself, as a dark and imposing figure, was associated with Dale Earnhardt in NASCAR. Yup, known as the Intimidator and as the Man in Black already for his iconic black and gray GM Goodwrench #3 Chevy, Dale Earnhardt was also nicknamed the Darth Vader of motorsports a few times in the 1980s and 1990s.

The black helmet and sunglasses played into that.

Somewhat more substantively, there is also the world of Star Wars sponsorships in racing, with Pepsi and Lucasfilm teaming up to sponsor Jeff Gordon at the 1999 CarQuest Auto Parts 400 Busch Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, promoting Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Gordon would suffer a mechanical failure...which is probably for the best because it had Jar-Jar on the left rear quarter panel.

Fast forward to the 2002 Coke 600, also at Charlotte, and Lucasfilm tried again, this time teaming up with Cheerios to sponsor John Andretti in the #43 car in the Cup series. This was the big leagues, and with them backing a midpack car, fifteenth was actually a respectable finish.

For Revenge of the Sith in 2005, the marketing campaign was back in force. First things first, there were four NASCARs that year, starting with both Yates Racing cars at the 2005 Subway Fresh 500 at Phoenix. Elliott Sadler drove the M&Ms #38 with a Dark Chocolate themed Dark Side paint scheme, while his teammate Dale Jarrett had a UPS/Milk Chocolate M&Ms Light Side car. The Dark Side car had Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a Stormtrooper on it. The Light Side car had Anakin Skywalker, the green M&M with Princess Leia hair, and a C3PO M&M.

Pretty odd character choices for Revenge of the Sith but eh, it's all for fun. Anyway, Sadler finished 11th and Jarrett finished 23rd, so I guess the Dark Side won...which I suppose is appropriate, given the movie they're tying into.

So, at the very next race, Star Wars tried again. Teaming up with Jeff Gordon and Pepsi again, this time it was in the Cup Series, sponsoring the Hendrick Motorsports #24 at the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. This car, with Yoda on the hood, would go on to win the race in dominant fashion, leading 139 laps.

Jeff Gordon would also pose with Darth Vader and some stormtroopers ahead of the race, which seems like a conflict of interest given the Yoda car.

Fallen to the Dark Side, Jeff Gordon has.

Finally, Hendrick Motorsports got another Star Wars car, with Episode III sponsoring Kyle Busch's #5 at the amazingly named Chevy American Revolution 400 at Richmond. This Kellogg's car was Mustafar themed with a lava theme on a black base. It has Darth Vader and Mace Windu on it, which...neither is exactly a great fit for Mustafar, what with Windu being dead and Vader only gaining the iconic armor and red lightsaber because of the events of Mustafar.

Kyle finished fourth, another good result for Star Wars.

This wasn't all though, because at the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix in Formula One, Star Wars teamed up with Red Bull Racing to sponsor a car. Much like the Kyle Busch car, it was their regular livery with some orange-yellow Star Wars lettering and a lava/fire theme along the bottom.

Drivers David Coulthard and Vitantonio Liuzzi also got a Star Wars photo op to go with it, this time taking pictures with Darth Vader, two stormtroopers, Chewbacca, C3PO, and also George Lucas himself.

A few years later, at the 2008 Peak Antifreeze Indy Grand Prix at Sonoma, the third to last round of the 2008 Indycar Series, Lucasfilm and Blockbuster (lol) teamed up to sponsor Marco Andretti's #26 car. He would finish fourteenth on that occasion.

This was actually the second collaboration between Marco Andretti, Blockbuster, and Lucasfilm that year, as he actually drove an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull car at the 2008 Indianapolis 500, finishing third.

More recently, at the 2023 NASCAR Championship Race at Phoenix, Star Wars and Columbia Sportswear teamed up to sponsor the 23XI cars. Bubba Wallace in the #23 ran an X-Wing car and even had Mark Hamill appear in the unveiling commercial, while Tyler Reddick in the #45 ran a TIE Fighter car.

Bubba Wallace finished 10th, and Tyler Reddick finished 22nd.

Two Light Side versus Dark Side races at Phoenix, the Dark Side drew first blood but then the Light Side won most recently. We're gonna need a tiebreaker.

So, that's what I got in terms of Star Wars sponsorships, but that's always been Star Wars going into motorsports. How about motorsports going into Star Wars?

Well, believe it or not, there is an example.

Podracing.

Yup, and not just in the "hey look, it's racing!" way, nope. At the 1998 Miller Lite 200 at Mid-Ohio, George Lucas and his crew recorded the sounds of the CART race to use as part of the sound mix for the podracing scenes in Episode I.

In fact - and unfortunately, I haven't seen the film so I can't confirm - I've seen the claim that the podracing sequence in Episode I mirrors the Monza race from the classic Formula One movie Grand Prix, which George Lucas is actually credited on as an assistant camera operator - which would lend some credence to the theory.

So yeah, I know I've kept this blog motorsports focused but I am a big Star Wars fan and have been for most of my life. To hear about James Earl Jones passing it's...it's just like...wow. It's unthinkable in a way. Obviously, he was getting older and all that, and there was that story a few years ago about him selling his voice rights to Disney, but like...to think that Darth Vader's voice actor is dead? That's crazy to me.

It's one of the biggest losses in recent media history, I think.

There will never be another voice quite that famous.

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Hey,

I was sent here by Reddit and told you may be able to identify the artist of this drawing:

The source is from a 1968/69 Kellogg’s promotion callled “The Year of the Moon”. It was a booklet detailing how NASA would undertake the Apollo 11 mission and this was one of 2 posters that came with the booklet. Some helpful folks on Reddit got me this source but no credit is listed. Perhaps it was just some illustrator on Nasa payroll in the 60s as some suggested but I have a hope you may recognize the art style or know where to find the information that would give credit to this incredible illustration. Below is a description of the full booklet and poster set I found on a bookstore website. Let me know if you need any other info and I will try to scrounge. Thanks for your help! - Thomas

The style really reminds me of David A Hardy, but I wasn't able to confirm if it was him or not with a search online. Other than that, it doesn't ring any bells. Do any of my followers know more?

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"In learning how to imagine X, you gain abilities; later, you have all the relevant imaginative abilities you had before, and more besides. And you notice, a priori, relationships of coherence or incoherence between attitudes that might figure in the realization of X; later, you are aware of all that you had noticed before, and more besides. And you think of new questions to explore in your imagining… and later, you have in mind all the questions you had thought of before, and more besides."

— David Kellogg Lewis, Philosophical Papers, Volume II

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Thanks for indulging in our creepy ideas for music videos. David suggested the POV heart shot, which came together so great using a 360 camera. Before the pandemic, I originally envisioned a Stepford Wives style Rabbit and Zero having a tied up Spine at a dinner table and serving him a blue heart on a plate. GG and Lago were going to be at the table too. At the end it would pan to a creepy Stepford Spine. The imagery of the held up utensils was there, so I think what we did was in the same spirit. Buuuut, there’s something to be said in keeping the characters styles and personalities intact for this, especially since we don’t get to see the robots as often these days, and simply for the sake of brand recognition and all that. I’m really happy people are enjoying it. Since people have been asking... -Zer-e-os is a photoshopped kelloggs corn flakes box -Its a song about mental illness

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