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Musical Space Books for Kids
You love space music. You love children’s books. So yeah, here are two book projects worthy of your attention. First up is a little project you may have heard about: Canadian illustrator Andrew Klob‘s...
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Should NASA Fake an Interplanetary Holy War?
Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the last person to suggest NASA falsify the threat of alien invasion to play on humanity’s fears. I also doubt he’d suggest that the space agency exploit America’s...
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Awesome Artistic Rendering of a Cubed Planet Earth
The Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast has some pretty awesome fans, including graphic artist Robert McLaren, who took it on himself to create this amazing interpretation of a cubical planet Earth after...
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How to Make a Homunculus and Other Horrors
In researching How Frankenstein’s Monster Works (and the podcast episode), I did quite a bit of reading about the homunculus. If you’re not hip to this terminology, all you need to know is that a...
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A Roadmap to Utopia
Does anyone believe in the idea of utopia anymore? Today, we view the concept through dharma-colored shades and label it a destructive and illusory extreme. Even our fictions err on the side of...
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Mandala: Memory Palace, Inception, and Simulated Worlds
A world simulated in the mind, where fortresses of bone rise above a sea of blood. Where a pantheon of wrathful and serene deities assemble in precise arrangement. Where multi-limbed beings dance,...
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Warhammer 40K: 25 Years of Orks in Space
This Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40k, which is sort of a big deal if you’re male between the ages of 13 and 60 who digs sci-fi violence and the sweet, seductive scent of acrylic...
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Space Music: The 2999 Project
What will the year 2999 look like? What will it sound like? That’s the creative catalyst behind The 2999 Project, a multimedia time trek to the end of the 30th century. Canada’s King Deluxe record...
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Centaur Anatomy Revealed: Two Hearts, Six Limbs, One Brain
I don’t have to convince you that centaurs are amazing. They stroll boldly through thousands of years worth of art, canter through our literary classics and their Photoshopped bodies continue to...
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Space Music: Joel Hodgson Talks Riffing, MST3K and Film Scores
If you’re a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan, your fondest memories probably revolve around classic film riffs and the show’s surprisingly believable cast of humans, robots, apes, aliens and mole...
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10 Horror Movie VHS Boxes That Scarred Me For Life
In the Stuff to Blow Your Mind episode The Horror, I chat a little bit about the horror movies at the local video store movies I never got to rent as a child, but movies with garish VHS covers...
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A Great Non-Slasher Slasher Film: Beyond the Black Rainbow
Panos Cosmatos’s Beyond the Black Rainbow is the best looking non-slasher slasher film since Drive. That’s to say, both films hypnotize viewers with a phenomenal visual style and a fantastic retro...
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Monster of the Week: The Blob
Count your lucky stars, America, because this great nation hasn’t suffered an attack from caustic, ravenous space jelly since 1988. The first recorded blob incident occurred back in 1958, when a small...
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Monster of the Week: Trolls
Norway is troll country. Oh sure, the electronic music and pickled fish are nice too, but it’s the region’s indigenous populations of hulking, deformed hill monsters that captivate our imaginations...
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Monster of the Week: Judas Breed (The Mimic)
To survive in New York City, you’ve gotta be willing to roll with with a lot of hostility. The air quality is horrid, real estate prices kill puppies in their sleep and hordes of giant insects tear...
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Monster of the Week: Dr. Freudstein
The annals of mad science are full of great men who selflessly put their bodies and minds on the alter of scientific research. They cut corners. They employed questionable logic in the pursuit of...
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Monster of the Week: C.H.U.D.s
Hurricane Sandy’s impact on New York City’s subterranean rat population made the news this week, but let us not forget the other denizens of the Big Apple’s dreary underworld. No, I’m not talking...
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Monster of the Week: Jason Voorhees (and the Sound of Sex)
You probably dismiss Jason Voorhees as just another rampaging psychopath, one with an intense desire to murder nymphomaniac teens. And indeed, the subject’s propensity for pro-abstinence bludgeoning...
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Monster of the Week: Dr. Edward Pretorius (From Beyond)
In the film From Beyond (watch it on Hulu here), Dr. Edward Pretorius pioneered use of the Resonator, a device that expands human perceptions of reality via wave manipulation of the pineal gland. As...
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Monster of the Week: Rat Kings
At the local Trader Joe’s they hide stuffed animals amidst the groceries—and the lucky child who finds one wins a strip of fruit leather. The rattenkönig was something of a medieval variant of this...
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