For Those of You Who Missed Cthulhupalooza

Not counting the special green shirts we made for the volunteers (black one shown here also available on my eBay site), here is the Cthulhupalooza-specific swag! Jones Soda was awesome to send us up these special Thickets pop bottles, which we gave out, raffled, and prized away.

A closer look.

These two images were taken by Adam of adampwsmith.com fame. He also helped out amazingly at Cthulhupalooza lugging equipment around and being generally useful. The photo on the left was from the Media Club, the photo on the right is from PAX.

A couple of Spaceship Zero-specific designs! SpaceCorp Reconstituted Space Effluent and the album cover by Chris Woods, logo design by Bob Fugger.

Colour Me Green Apple; the cover of our album The Shadow Out of Tim as photographed by Taylor Latour and designed by Chris Stewart; Cthulhupalooza logo drawn by me and designed by Josh Pratt.

The 1.5″ square pin.

The 1″ round pin.

Saturday Morning Cartoon Party Phase Two

Hey, the Red Tornado episode of Batman: Brave and the Bold airs Friday on Cartoon Network.

Now, What if I held the next Saturday Morning Cartoon Party at The Rio theatre, spread over 4 weeks, for 3-4 hours a pop? Would you come? What would you want to see?

Previously:

2008 schedule: Time  smcp2008.pdf

2007 schedule: Mind Games: 2007-saturday-morning-cartoon-party-schedule

2006 schedule: April Fools: 2006-saturday-morning-cartoon-party-schedule-fools

2005 schedule: Space: 2005-saturday-morning-cartoon-party-schedule-space

2004 schedule: Doppelgangers: 2004-saturday-morning-cartoon-party-doppelgangers

2003 schedule: The Supernatural: 2003-saturday-morning-cartoon-party-supernatural

2002 schedule: Origins

2001 schedule: Robots! 2001-saturday-morning-cartoon-party-schedule-robots

2000 schedule:

1999 schedule:

1998 schedule: No theme.

Another Nice Bit of Fan Mail

From Adam:

I work on a boat and I must mention that when I first boarded was when I first listened to Shadow Out of Tim, and you’ll be proud to learn that it gave me nightmares. Really f’ed up nightmares. Also, we often moored in Astoria, Oregon next to a U.S. Coast Guard cutter named the Steadfast… every week, my poorly whistled version of “Return to Melanesia” echoed across the decks. Seriously, you guys are badass!

M&M Graph

Do you think that the M&M people make up an equal amount of each colour and this bag selection is completely random…

…or do you think that the large amount of orange and blue and the small amount of yellow is the result of many focus groups and marketing decisions?

I should have arranged these candies in a pie chart shape.

Spam made better with Cthulhu

Miss. Josette Berry,

Letter Of Relationship and Establishment of aid

Dearest One,

Permit me to inform you of my desire to go into business relationship with you , l got your contact through the internet here in Abidjan and I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to the nature of my proposal, which requires a reputable and trustworthy person. Some one who will be kind and sincere to me.

l am Miss Josette Berry, the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Berry Kouassi, My father was into diamond and cocoa trade in Abidjan here, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business meeting. My mother died on the 20th January 1987 and my father took me so special because l am motherless.

Before the death of my father on 29th March 2008 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me at his bedside,when I sat down to listen to him, he started crying, why? (1) He complained that I am too young to be managing my life with no one to take care of me,(2)That I have not finished my university education as he planned for me, he revealed to me that he has a sum of US$6,350.000.(SIX MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND FIFT THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) left in a security company here in Abidjan, that he used my name as the only daughter for his next of kin in deposit of the funds.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisioned by his business associates , that l should seek for a CTHULHU fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where l will transfer this money and use it for proper investment purpose, that I must finish my university education by the help of a business partner abroad, that he or she should help me obtain a resident permit in his or her country.

He also gave a standing instrution to the company that the deposit must be transferred outside this country. According to my father, the money was deposited as a family valuables to avoid attracting attention to the deposit.

Dearest One, I am now ready to do all these since my father my bread winner is no more. l am honourable seeking your assistance in the following ways.

(1) To serve as my guardian in your country while I will depend on your expert advise since l am a girl of 22 years.

(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country in order to further my university education and to secure a residential permit for me in your country.

Moreover, l am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your assistance in the transfer of this deposit to your country. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as l believed that this project would be concluded within four days you signify interest to assist me by contacting the security company.

Hoping to hear from you soon. May Cthulhu bless you as you extend your helping hand to an orphan.

Best wishes

Josette.

CYÄEGHA Number 2 Winter 2008

It’s a very Toren Atkinson issue of CYÄEGHA this festival season.

CYÄEGHA Number 2 Winter 2008. A5 Chapbook. 44 Pages including covers. 75 Numbered copies [Red Cover] plus 5 lettered contributor copies [Blue(2), Pink(2) & Beige Covers].

Here’s a list of contents:

Front Cover: Toren Atkinson – ‘Rampage‘.
[Reprinted from The 1997 Cyber Cthulhu Calendar]

1. Contents.
2. Introduction.
3. Eddy C. Bertin – ‘The Creation of Eyurid’ (Essay).
5. Tais Teng – ‘Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio’ (Art Portfolio).
[Reprinted from Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio, Dunwich House 1980]
18. Tais Teng and Eddy C. Bertin – ‘Eyurid’ (Fiction).
[Reprinted from Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio, Dunwich House 1980]
26. An Interview with Toren Atkinson.
31. A Discography of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
33. Zine Guide – The Pnakotic Series.

41. Wade German – ‘Surviving Cyäegha’ (Poem).
Other Artwork:Toren Atkinson (‘R’lyeh Calling’ and The Pnakotic Series Cover Illustration);
Tais Teng (‘Cthulhu’) [Reprinted from Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio, Dunwich House 1980]. Prices incl. P&P (in UK Pounds) : 4 (UK), 5 (Europe), 6 (ROW).

Anyone who is interested in purchasing a copy or in contributing to any future issues should contact the editor at cyaegha@live.co.uk for further information.

http://www.freewebs.com/batglynn/cyaegha.htm