Check out this awesome fanart.of Betty Wilson and the twins

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Showing my age now... anyone else a little bit obsessed with Eerie Indiana in the 90’s? It was the first show that came to mind when I saw the #superradhalloweenchallenge prompt for today - #halloweentv Feeling like I could do with a foreverware order putting in.. sleep deprivation is not making me look my youngest at the moment

ComicallyMavis on Eerie, Indiana

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comicallymavisSometimes I find myself just thinking of the brilliance of this show. The one with the giant Tupperware and The Bureau of Lost, particular faves. #eerieindiana #omrikatz #tvgold
jennyphinYES I loved it!
comicallymavis@jennyphin I used to love the white haired kid Dash X, he was so cool 🖤

Broken Record screencaps by InfinitePause

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Featuring Todd and the Wilson Twins.

ReadLegalWeed is going to have a good Halloween

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Just ordered "Eerie Indiana" on DVD... so stoked.

— Mark Ward-Journalist (@ReadLegalWeed) October 26, 2018

Copaxatl on the preferred horror shows of their childhood

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I was never a fan of goosebumps or the silly tv show. I’m an are you afraid of the dark and Eerie, Indiana fan but if you were and don’t ha e the entire collection already recorded to VHS then here you go https://t.co/w2iuoALkm9

— COPATHULHU 🦑⛈🌊 (@Copaxatl) October 26, 2018

Sophie Bergers gets star struck

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when Justin Shenkarow the original simon from eerie indiana likes your wip picture of eerie ougiee pic.twitter.com/3mR1jnnXjL

— Sophie Bergers (@sophiebergers) October 26, 2018

ChimaeriForm: how?!

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i forgot dash x from eerie indiana

— aubrey (@chimaeriform) October 26, 2018

Even EliBot supports the reboot

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Eerie, Indiana left me wanting more, tbh... WHY?!

— eli bot (@REALelibot) October 26, 2018

KirklandCiccone on 90s TV fantasy

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I have the feeling all 90s TV fantasy was super, super cheap. Was there anything good before Buffy?

— Roy Gill (@roy_gill) October 25, 2018

Eerie, Indiana? *I don't know if I'm being serious or not anymore*

— Chilling Adventures Of Kirkbrina Ciccone (@KirklandCiccone) October 25, 2018

RobWillB has Halloween sorted

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For Halloween, I’ve been watching the 90s kids show, EERIE, INDIANA, which stars #HocusPocus’ Omri Katz with appearances by John Astin (Gomez Addams) and Harry Goaz from #TwinPeaks as...a dumb deputy! And then this happened... cc: @DianePodcast @bobsymindless @NotNowRosie pic.twitter.com/AqPf5c8jFn

— Rob ZOMBerg 🎃😱🍬👻🦇🧛🏻‍♂️💀🎃 (@robwillb) October 25, 2018

Omg I LOVED Eerie Indiana! Did you watch Are You Afraid of the Dark too?

— Jack GHOULder (@jackshoulder) October 25, 2018

MattRyanTobin/Fright Rags Eerie Indiana enamel pin on eBay

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Raven on top of the town limits sign.

Humans of Libraryland: the Desk Set

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Whats up and welcome to Humans of Libraryland, the weblog collection the place you possibly can study concerning the individuals who work in your public library.

This can be a particular version of the collection to have fun the première of KCLS’s first ever podcast, which will function studying options, writer interviews, and far more. So let’s spend a while attending to know the hosts of The Desk Set, Emily Calkins and Brittany Barrett from On-line Library Providers on the Service Middle!

HoL: What podcasts do you take heed to?

BB: I take heed to Name Your Girlfriend each week for a enjoyable, feminist tackle politics and popular culture. I’m additionally an enormous fan of 99% Invisible, which focuses on design and the constructed surroundings. As a social media supervisor, I actually respect Reply All, a present that describes itself as a “podcast about the internet.” There’s one thing very interesting about serialized fiction like Tanis and The Black Tapes too, particularly as somebody who grew up loving The X Files and Eerie, Indiana.

The Art Story on the Blue Boy

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Artwork description & Analysis: This full-length portrait depicts a boy, wearing blue satin knee breeches and a lace-collared doublet as he gazes, unsmiling, at the viewer. Holding a plumed hat in his right hand, his other hand cocked on his hip, he conveys both self-confidence and a touch of swagger. Composed in layers of slashed and fine brushstrokes with delicate tints of slate, turquoise, cobalt, indigo, and lapis lazuli, the blue becomes resplendent, almost electric against the stormy and rocky landscape.

Originally, the painting was thought to portray Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy merchant, but contemporary scholarship has identified the model to most likely be the artist's assistant and nephew Gainsborough Dupont. As art critic Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell wrote, the work "is a kind of English Civil War cosplay popular for masquerade balls in the 18th century," depicting the boy in the outfit of a cavalier, worn by aristocratic Royalists of the 1630s. His posture and facial expression play the part as well, for cavaliers were defined not only by their stylish clothing but their nonchalant and swashbuckling attitude. Thus, the work, Gainsborough's most popular, is a tour de force, combining masterful portraiture with a costume study and his artistic reply to the works of Anthony van Dyck, famous for his portraiture of King Charles I's court and the cavaliers who supported him. Yet, by primarily using blue, traditionally thought to be more suited for background elements, Gainsborough also challenged traditional aesthetic assumptions.

The work carries Rococo's traditional visual appeal and play with costumed figures, but Gainsborough also added innovative elements of realism, as seen in the buttons tightly lacing the doublet together, and prefigured Romanticism by portraying a solitary figure outlined against a turbulent sky. Gainsborough came to exemplify British Rococo with society portraits of his wealthy clients.

The painting was immediately successful at its 1770 debut at the Royal Academy of Art in London and became so identified with British cultural identity that, when in 1921 the Duke of Westminster sold it to the American tycoon Henry Huntington, it caused a scandal. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's silent film Knabe in Blau (The Boy in Blue) (1919) was inspired by the painting, as was Cole Porter's song Blue Boy Blues (1922). Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg and contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley were inspired by the work, and artist Alex Israel referenced it in his Self Portrait (Dodgers) (2014‒2015). Shown at the Huntington Museum, paired with Thomas Lawrence's portrait of a girl in pink, Pinkie (1794), the work has taken on further cultural relevance, as both paintings have been used in the TV pilot for Eerie, Indiana (1991) and as set decorations on episodes of Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963).

Oil on canvas - Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Return to the Loop with Free League’s New Adventures for Tales from the Loop

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Imagine a setting in the 1980s and machines roam the landscape all connected to a mysterious facility and an equally mysterious power source used to generate various odd experiments that occasionally run rampant in your suburban life. The caveat? You’re all playing as kids, and only you can stop the machine menace. Free League Publishing released their ENnie awarding Tales from the Loop in 2015 which would later become of the “must play games” of 2017, and the game continues to grow with their first campaign book, Tales from the Loop: Our Friends the Machines and Other Mysteries.

You can acquire your copy of Our Friends the Machines and Other Mysteries here and currently, at the time of this article, the book is sold out, but there are plenty of 3rd-party distributors that should have copies available. Additionally, Free League Publishing launched a Kickstarter, Things from the Flood, that is meant as a sequel to Tales from the Loop. If you haven’t picked up your copy of Tales from the Loop, the game is essentially the Goonies meets Eerie Indiana, and it just works with all of these different niche genres.

PasteMagazine: 25 years ago, Bette Midler and her coven lost the fight but won our spiteful hearts.

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As the sun sets earlier and the grocery stores start stocking squashes and plenty of nutmeg, lots of cinephiles turn back to the spooky and macabre movies of fall. This month, Ken Lowe is taking a look back at four Autumn Classics celebrating major milestones this year. Be sure to check out our looks at Halloween and The Nightmare Before Christmas. This week, we’re examining the dark tale of witchcraft and virginity, Hocus Pocus.

I missed the Hocus Pocus boat back in 1993, and it’s just as well that I did, because this is a celebration of women on the prowl and a slyly could-it-be-unintentional parody of the fecklessness of the Default Teenage White Male Protagonist that I just would have dismissed. The now-25-year-old cult classic returns to some theaters this spooky film season once more, and it’s sure to bring out some cosplayers. It’s hard to imagine anything this simultaneously dark and yet gamely ridiculous being marketed as a kids’ film these days. The House With a Clock in Its Walls doesn’t come close.

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Three hundred years later, a disaffected teenager named Max (Omri Katz, Mr. Eerie, Indiana himself) finds himself grappling with all the boring, predictable bullshit every disaffected teenager named Max was dealing with in a ’90s movie. We are not discussing any of that, because it is not the point of the movie and you already know all of it. Max likes a girl, he has a rough relationship with his parents and his annoying little sister but he loves her, some bullies steal his shoes. (There are two scenes in the early going with young men running around barefoot—is director Kenny Ortega the reverse Joss Whedon?)

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ChaosTrophic: best tv shows that never.for a proper finale

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List of the best TV shows that never got a real finale, ranked by how much fans miss them. The greatest cancelled television shows of all time still live on in places like Netflix and Hulu, but there are few solutions for fixing their unsatisfactory finales – other than bringing the show back Arrested Development-style, or making a movie like Veronica Mars or Firefly. Too many great television series were taken from us by evil network and cable executives. This is a list of great TV shows that were canceled and yanked off the air before their writers had a chance to give the characters (and plotlines) a proper goodbye.

Some of you might be thinking, “Hey, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, and Lost didn’t get real finales if you ask me.” Well, although the finales weren’t very satisfying, they were the finales that the writers always had planned for years down the line. For the victims on this list of canceled TV shows, fans were robbed of what could have been awesome season five finales. Some of the shows, like Enlightened and Flight of the Conchords, ended due to creative differences rather than HBO laying down the law. However, a show like Strangers With Candy was victim to Comedy Central’s wrath far too soon.

This list includes the best shows canceled after one season as well as many other shows cancelled too soon.

Eerie, Indiana is currently ranked a thematically appropriate #66 out of a hundred. PErsonally I think Reality was a really, really good season finale, I just wanted and continue to want more.

IT CAME FROM THE ACADEMY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR FANDOM

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This lifelong dedication to the genre was the norm for participants as reflected in various responses. Arnold B. wrote, “I suppose my entire life as a pop culture consumer I’ve been a fan of horror. As a little kid, it was Universal monsters; as a teenager, Hammer and Halloween and much more; and then as an adult, zombies took over…and I’ve grown to appreciate just about all of it.” Matthew M. explained, “I have been a fan of the horror genre for as long as I can remember, thirty-four years, and probably before that.” Carissa B. was fascinated by the horror genre “beforeI was old enough to even realize it was a genre. I found fascination in villains and creepy or spooky feeling things as a small child. five or six years old, maybe?”

For some respondents, their enchantment with the horror genre was the result of a particular media property. Wren M. wrote that she became a fan when she watched “Elvira’s Movie Macabre at the impressionable age of seven, twenty-five years ago.” For Nancy E., it was her exposure to the children’s book Bunnicula. Rachel B., who has been a fan of the horror genre for thirty years, wrote, “Some of my fondest memories of being a kid were watching Are You Afraid of the Dark, Eerie, Indiana, and The Twilight Zone.” Aldyn G. explained that she has been involved with horror fandom since she was ten, “and I watched the original Halloween from behind the couch while my sisters watched it. I’m twenty-two, now, so I have been a fan for twelve years, and plan to continue to be for the rest of my life.” And Rocco T. discovered his love of horror “since I got up the courage to watch Gore Verbinski’s The Ring in 2002. So, that would be sixteen years!”

More Hocus Pocus/Omri Katz appreciation on Twitter

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It is speeding up to Halloween so night 27 of 31 Halloween movies will be "Hocus Pocus" 🎃 pic.twitter.com/E9VqaG0OAJ

— Weremonkey 🐒 Josh (@jjw520) October 27, 2018

Not even ashamed to say that I love that movie!!! The boy in that movie (Omri Katz) is the lead in the fun series, "Eerie, Indiana" that's on Amazon Prime!

Eerie, Indiana (TV Series 1991–1992) - IMDb - https://t.co/aLDW9rsno6

— Daniel J (@DanielJ11197) October 27, 2018

Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2018: episode seven, Heart on a Chain

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.