Grunkle Weird

09/03/2026

THURSDAY THROWDOWN: THE MAIN EVENT

After weeks of bloodshed, heartbreak, questionable disqualifications, and absolutely no oversight from a recognized athletic commission, only two films remain.

The Evil Dead defeated Carrie in a blood-soaked contest to claim the final spot. It was very close but here we are:

THE THING
Paranoia, isolation, and practical effects so grotesquely perfect they may still be wandering the Antarctic tundra .

VS.

THE EVIL DEAD
A relentless cabin nightmare powered by demonic chaos, inventive gore, and one spectacularly terrible weekend with Bruce Campbell.

Who becomes our Monsterous Movie Champion? 🏆

Vote carefully. There are no appeals, rematches, or responsible adults in charge.

The winner will hold the title and the loser will run home and cry to Mama! Let's go!

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

On Wednesdays, We Read: Dangerous Recommendations

What book do you love but hesitate to recommend because it comes with an emotional warning label?

Maybe it’s devastating, deeply strange, difficult to explain, or likely to make someone question your psychological well-being.

You know the one.

The book you hand someone and say, “This is brilliant. Please don’t judge me when you’re finished.”

What’s your dangerous recommendation?

09/02/2026

First of all, don’t feel bad that I’m gone. While I will miss spending time with each of you, I’m sure it will be an interesting time for me and I look forward to seeing all of you when you come over. To each of you I send my love. If on this side of life I’m able to watch over and help you out, know that I will. If I can’t, I’m sure I can at least be waiting for you when you come over. This all may sound silly to you guys, but what the hell, I’m gone—and who can argue with me?

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling. May each of yours be that—having each of you as a child of mine has certainly been one of the good things in my life. Know that I’ve always loved each of you with an eternal, bottomless love. A love that has nothing to do with each other, for I feel my love for each of you is total and all-encompassing. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it.

Jim Henson
Letter to his children, to be opened after his death

09/01/2026

TURN IT UP TUESDAY

Every time I hear the opening drumbeat of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks,” I’m locked in. There’s no skipping it. The volume is going to 11.

Choose one song whose opening immediately announces itself. A guitar riff, drumbeat, bass line, scream, bell, or suspicious amount of cowbell.

What song needs only five seconds to completely capture your attention or change your whole mood?

08/31/2026

Monday’s Million-Dollar Question:

For many of us, it’s back to work today. So, with that in mind, you must accept one job from a movie, TV show, book, or game. You receive the salary and benefits, but you also face every occupational hazard.

Ghostbuster, Starfleet officer, Jurassic Park employee, night watchman at a suspicious museum...anything goes.

What job are you taking, and how long before you’re fired, possessed, eaten by a dinosaur, or otherwise “terminated”?

08/31/2026

We're not even starting this week until I'm caffeinated. ☕

08/31/2026

Frankenstein Day 2026 ⚡

Today we celebrate Mary Shelley, the woman who gave life to one of literature’s most enduring creations.

Frankenstein is more than a monster story. It’s about creation, rejection, loneliness, identity, and the terrible consequences of abandoning what we bring into the world.

Raise a glass. Light a smoke. Stitch a few strange moments together with a friend or a good book.

Maybe this one. Or one of the classic films?

It’s alive. 🤍⚡

08/30/2026

Easy Like Sunday

Do you have a watch list?

Do you keep an actual, physical list, or do you just tell people, “I’m adding that to my list,” knowing full well it’s a metaphorical list floating somewhere in the void?

I’m watching Breaking Away because of yesterday’s suggestions, and I think I’m finally going to start a real watch list, maybe even organize it by genre.

What are the must-watch additions to my list? Help out your Grunkle with a few.

08/29/2026

On August 29, 1997, at 2:14 a.m. EDT, Skynet became self-aware.

Humanity panicked. Skynet fought back. Judgment Day began.

Please take a moment today to appreciate that we survived the robot apocalypse, although lately it feels like we may have merely rescheduled it again...

Happy Judgment Day from Grunkle Weird’s Attic. 🤖🔥