The Literate Nerds

29/09/2024

Just came back from the Spooky Season Bizarre Bazaar - Pop-up Market @ Cinema Arts Centre - Sun 09/29 and my mission to brace vendors about exhibiting at LICH, the Long Island Convention of Horror was 100% positive. Now I gotta start writing a bunch of emails!

04/09/2024

Bernie Mireault was a brilliant cartoonist. I hope he has found peace.

06/08/2024

So, I’m recruiting vendors, artists, and cosplayers for a NY Fashion Week Cosplay Runway event September 7-8, at 30 Wall Street, in Manhattan, and for our horror convention at the same venue, Halloween on Wall Street, October 25-27.

If you’re interested, send an email to [email protected]

29/07/2024

Pacific Rim is colossally dumb and I love every second of it.

28/07/2024

For those of you in the viewer audience who complain about the DC cinematic universe getting a reboot and Marvel having too many alternate timelines, please read a fu***ng superhero comic once in your life. These are literally the some of the most used shticks by DC and Marvel.

24/07/2024

During my supernatural horror campaign with the regular Monday gaming crew, Ryan Pitts did something no other player has done in my experience, and I’ve had people request tactical nukes.

He called in the lawyers.

18/07/2024

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18/07/2024

If I started a newsletter would you subscribe?

17/07/2024

The brilliant horror historian Maitland McDonagh is hosting a screening of the Dario Argento giallo masterpiece SUSPIRIA, at the Huntington Cinema Arts Theatre, 7:30pm, July 31st.

Science Fiction, Horror, & Fantasy SUSPIRIA Wednesday, July 31st at 7:30 PMWith Maitland McDonagh, author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento in person $16 Public | $10 Members Considered by many to be one of the most terrifying and stylized horror films of our time, Dar...

17/07/2024

Did I just begin a professional email with “Greetings and salutations to you boils, ghouls, and non-binary children of the night”?

You’re damn right I did.

16/07/2024

Trying to pull off a horror convention in Manhattan around Halloween, and another around Thanksgiving on Long Island, because why the hell not?

10/06/2024

It’s not useless knowledge. It’s esoterica.