David Lynch (1946 — 2025)

 I can’t.

When you politely ask skeletons in a lux closet to stop making rattling sounds:

“Muller [...] tells me that ethical boundaries prevent him from sharing anything about his sessions with Gaiman, but he apparently felt comfortable sharing details of his conversation with Pavlovich.”

“Everyone was trying to make the best of what was clearly a difficult situation”*—a remarkable volte-face.

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* An excerpt from that exact Vulture article

Mystery horrors aren’t that easy to master, but if done properly, they can be great (“The Haunting of Hill House” is the first that comes to mind). This one below sounds amusing.

Uketsu’s YouTube videos are less absurdist, but just as creepy. Using a voice modifier to make his pitch high and childlike, he plays detective, inviting the viewer to solve mysteries with him. He wears a black bodysuit and a white papier-mâché mask, with poked holes for the eyes and mouth. He presents pictures and interviews “witnesses” over a landline. “Do you understand what’s wrong with this house?” he asks at the beginning of Hen na le (The Strange House). “Look again.” ©

Once you are young and full of joie de vivre and next moment you are nervously checking how to take care of your ferns after a mild frost.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm. ©

A benevolent werewolf (or maybe not)

An interesting entry discussing an apparent magic creature from Shetland folklore, a humanoid-like wolf, which is much more benevolent (!) than a traditional werewolf, whose name is Wulver. The reality is, however, that “Wulver” is pure mystification and was invented by one of the folklorists in the mid 1930s.

Then another folklorist came on the scene. Jessie Saxby (1842-1940) is the villain in this story. She had a very vivid imagination. She didn’t like the idea that Wulver’s Hool derives from álf, fairy. She wanted something more dramatic. So she invented the entirely fictitious creature the wulver. She even named her house Wulvershool. ©

Филологическое-соцсетевое (копирайтерское-традиционное)

Пролистывая русскоязычную часть ленты, summa summarum: на каждый палимпсест найдется свой Пьер Менар, каждому коллажу своя ризома, ударим Лиотаром по бездорожью, все засмеялись, а Ваня заплакал.

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Ну и заключительное от меня по сабжу «пьер менар наносит ответный удар»: все-таки наблюдать за отголосками лит. дискуссий в несуетном жанре прощупывания иерархий «апроприировал — возмести духовностью» лучше со стороны.

Although most Christmas decorations have disappeared after Epiphany around the city, you can still see some, and this Gingerbread stately home in a window display is one of them:

Православное Рождество

С Рождеством Христовым! Снова наступило, а значит, есть надежда.