Musical Mondays

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It's Monday, the start of the working week. To counter-act the post-weekend blues, cheer yourself up with Radio Weird: Songs of Eerie. Whether you're checking out some of eviinsanemonkey's amazing filks, or taking up deifire's awesome recommendations for Eerie-centric listening, or creating a musical fanwork of your very own, share your thoughts, and your favourites, in the comments!

( Stabbity Steve: a Murder Ballad by Eviinsanemonkey )

( After Wolf Mountain: a Filk by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Pay Attention: a Filk by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Krampus: an Eerie Christmas Poem by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Moo! A World o' Stuff advertising jingle by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Bigfoot Stole My Mail: a Musical by Owen Neil )

( Eerie, Indiana fanvids by Roseveare )

( Weird Science (Don't Leave My Arms): an Eerie, Indiana Melanie/Devon/Marshall fanvid by Current Joys )

Fandom Tropes Challenge!

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So after friendof_dorothy and deifire respectively made me remember fanmixes and Five Things fic in the space of a single day, I decided it would be fun to have a Fandom Tropes challenge once a month, to remind us of all the stuff that used to be super common in fandom that maybe we don't see as much as we'd like to these days.

Your prompt for this month is: The Way We Were: Pre-Canon Fic

Eerie Indiana Fanfiction: Hooper, the EerieLand Corn Eared Jackalope

[friendof_dorothy]

I had a weird day so I did some writing to keep my mind occupied, enjoy :-) i guess this is probably set in the Brain Mush verse, but like...Much later.

title: Hooper, the EerieLand Corn Eared Jackalope
pairing: Janet/Mars
rating: K

 

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AV Club: your clocks and plots forward: 9 stories where daylight saving time actually does something

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Over the weekend, much of the world’s population dutifully set its clocks one hour ahead in adherence with daylight saving time, that mandatory act of “springing forward” in order to... something about farmers. Or coal. Or whatever. As a popular Last Week Tonight With John Oliver segment pointed out, most of us don’t actually know why daylight saving time exists, or more pointedly, why it’s still around. (The answers: Germans, and who knows.) What we do know is that, twice a year, everyone suddenly has to remember how to set the clocks in their cars, toddlers scream extra loudly about bedtime, and the number of accidents goes up because everyone’s groggy and confused. Daylight saving time is one giant, inexplicable headache, right down to its name: It’s daylight saving, singular, even though “daylight savings” just sounds right. It’s like one big, fucking “Actually...” from the government.

That said, daylight saving time rarely has any real, dramatic impact on our lives, so stories where it plays any sort of significant role are understandably rare. Here are nine exceptions.

3: Eerie, Indiana

As the intro to one-season wonder Eerie, Indiana explains, the series concerns teenager Marshall Teller, who moves to a strange Midwestern town where he often runs into trouble whenever he doesn’t abide by its bizarre rules. In “The Lost Hour” (one of three Eerie episodes directed by actor Bob Balaban), Marshall refuses to accept the fact that Indiana—in the 1990s, at least—doesn’t abide by daylight saving time. Declaring “I want my hour!” Marshall sets his watch back anyway. In Eerie, of course, this small act results in a rip in the space-time continuum, thrusting Marshall into a surreal dimension, called The Lost Hour, where almost everyone in town has disappeared. That is, except a runaway teenage girl, a group of homicidal garbagemen, and one really familiar-looking old milkman, who wears the same key around his neck as Marshall. Marshall eventually escapes The Lost Hour, but not before the milkman tells him he’ll return there someday, setting up an overarching mythology for the show that suggests Eerie and Marshall are forever linked. Unfortunately, Eerie, Indiana only lasted nine more episodes, so we never got to see that arc play out. But suffice it to say, daylight saving time has never had such universe-destroying consequences.

Upcoming Book Will Tell ‘The Complete History of The Howling’

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Eight films. One book.

Set to launch at the Edinburgh Horror Con on May 12, author Bryn Curt James Hammond’s The Complete History of The Howling will be an in-depth look at the entirety of The Howling franchise, which kicked off with Joe Dante’s film in 1981.

It promises to teach you “all that’s left to know” about the franchise.

The book, from UK’s Miami Fox Publishing, “presents the complete account of one of the most popular and iconic legendary film franchises in cinema history. When The Howling premiered in 1981, the film introduced cinema-goers to an all-new kind of movie monster – shocking, visceral, graphic and relentless. Spawning seven popular sequels to date, the series has become the most prosperous werewolf franchise of all time.”

It includes a foreword by Philippe Mora, director of Howling II & III.