Hope you and the family continue to be well. Let’s catch up via email soon.

Kathleen

I keep checking up on you because I hope you and your family are doing fine. What an interesting guy you are. Now, who is going to help ME get into the Catholic church? I have a vote of confidence from a former Jesuit priest. He calls me a genetic Catholic.

Take care, little dude. You and yours are in my prayers.

Janet

Thanks for this new podcast - I enjoyed it.

It seems like a good beginning or introduction to some very intriguing ideas - especially about classic horror and the idea of the human person. Perhaps there will be a time in the future when those things can be further explored?

Or just talk more about classic horror for the fun of it - I don’t care.

Thanks again, and feel better -

Kathleen

Many years ago I was very much into the “splatter” genre. However, I was attracted to the technical aspects and “how did they do that?” aspect. That viewpoint and interest is short lived. I now feel that filmmakers of all genres at times substitute special effects, gore and cgi for actual dialogue and characterization. The Hostel movies were very simple storywise and could have been pitched in 10 seconds. I actually enjoyed the early Saw films because the traps were quite clever and there was a mystery to the story. The Saw films do have some character development, but take 3 or 4 movies to actually get to it. The Saw film could be pitched in 10 seconds as well. Could you imagine trying to capture the nuances and struggle in the original Universal films in 10 seconds?

I just purchased the boxed set of Frankenstein. I hadn’t seen the original movie in many, many years and had completely forgotten what a wonderful job Karloff did without speaking in that role! Any true horror fan has a special place in their hearts for the original monster movies because they personified the struggle between good and evil. Almost everything was in “black and white”, on the surface. Modern horror movies are normally populated by just different levels of evil. If we’re lucky there’s a theme of redemption running through the movie as the hero who has a checkered past saves the day and makes up for all his trangressions.

Anyway, great job Lint!!!

Congratulations on the new kiddlybean!

I loved:

- “I accepted Keith Green as my personal Lord and Savior at a Jesus concert.”

- Katie’s comments on liminalism. It was a surprisingly surreal moment - maybe it was just me, but I could imagine that she was actually trying to express something with her sighs and gurgles. She was on the cusp, as it were, of communicating with us from Baby World. In a liminal sort of way.

BTW, I had an experience yesterday that fits your definition of “liminoid” to a T. Did you catch any of the “We Are One” concert/show/ceremony/break-our-arms-patting-ourselves-on-the-back-fest for Barack Obama last night on HBO? Precisely because we weren’t swept up in the “moment” it was trying to fabricate, Gary and I commented all through it about the strange feelings it gave us and the disconnect between pop culture and real culture. See here for good thoughts from Mark Shea on it: http://www.markshea.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html#6950691846851422577

Enjoy, Kathleen

And I vote for Katie!

And chocolate peanut butter ice cream! (Oops - was that a topic?)

:)

You’ve been tagged! See http://kathleenlundquist.blogspot.com

(Um, when you get around to it. If you’re so inclined. Just a thought. *Ahem.) Was just thinking of you and Susan and Nick and Sarah and Holly and Katie.

Blessings, Kathleen

P.S. I too love this WONDER article. Meaty, indeed. Who has thoughts like these besides you?

But listening to the most recent one on Final Crisis very much reminded me why my own motto has been, is, and ever shall be, “Make mine Marvel!”

Aside from Batman and the very occasional Superman, DC’s stable just doesn’t appeal to me in the least.

This brightened my day. Thanks for your efforts.

That promo rocked! Or should I say, swang.

I would prefer to read my scripture in a Karloffian voice but Bela is cool.

I rented “Isle of the Dead” this last weekend. Boris and Val together at last. Chilling!

Happy Halloween! We still don’t have any T&Ters but the night is young!

On the bossa nova sound, I would really recommend the band, Os Mutantos (the Mutants) from brazil. I found a great webradio site, http://www.pandora.com/ , that creates playlists from your favorite band or song. The “Os Mutantes” station is great fun!

Well, I better get to listening to your updated MonsterFan podcast Kathie is raving about.

Peace and all good from Portland

G

–) Check out the bottom of the feet. Even in grainy black-and-white, it’s pretty obvious that’s a costume.

–) If this were real, it would be a primate of some sort. Ask any anthropologist or zoologist. No primate on earth has breasts that hairy. Not even Robin Williams.

I just wanted to stop by and say I really like your podcast and have ever since I heard the Apocalypse trilogy a few years ago. It’s always a special treat when I open iTunes and find a new episode of Excuse Me, Ghidorah waiting for me.

I’m sorry to read in your show notes that your family is going through some trouble. I’ll say a prayer for you.

Please keep those great episodes coming!

Dan

It’s always amazed me how in some books King can have such an almost anti religion viewpoint and yet have written “The Stand” that has such obvious and all encompassing religious undertones.

Anyway, thanks for the new episode Lint.

Bruce

Okay, both me and my mp3 player are old and cheap.