Curt’s Basement

MUST SEE THIS!!! In the film Jeff, a down on his luck office worker, finds out he is the last living relative of horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft. What he doesn’t know is that Lovecraft’s monsters are real and will soon threaten the very existence of mankind. Jeff and his best friend Charlie are forced to [...]

What if William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski? [The bowling green. Enter THE KNAVE, WALTER and DONALD, to play at ninepins] WALTER In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst call it not a rug among ordinary rugs, but a rug of purpose? A star in a firmament, in step [...]

This is very cool. It’s a 40min fan-made prequel for Lord of the Rings. Hopefully it won’t get taken down by the powers that be!

So, Amanda and I are thinking it might be fun to go to FanExpo this year. The convention is like a celebration of all our geeky interests in one big place. Comics, Sci-fi, Anime, Gaming, and Horror all rolled into one. The event is in downtown Toronto on the 28th of August to the 30th. [...]

This man is a God! via Publick Nuisance – Score One for the Home Team.

Some guy made this incredible mashup as a trailer for his Call of Cthulhu campaign!

This reminds me that I should actually get around to reading Discworld sometime. Pratchett, 60, best known for his satirical Discworld fantasy series, becomes a knight, one of the queen’s most important honours, and will now be addressed as a ‘Sir’. “There are times when phrases such as ‘totally astonished’ just don’t do the job,” [...]

While the text of William Gibson’s elusive electronic poem AGRIPPA is widely posted around the Web, it has not been seen in its original incarnation — custom-built software designed to scroll the poem through a single play before encrypting each line with an RSA algorithm — since 1992. Today is the 16th anniversary, to the [...]

The first ever issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, circa 1989, which features a preview of Mega Man 2 is now available for download on RetroMags here.