Review Tuesday: The Void (2016)

  

 

The Void

(2016) 

Cultists attempt to bring an undescribable horror into the world. 

One night my BFF suggested seeing THE VOID. This movie is well documented as classic cosmic horror, so I was more than willing to give it a shot. 

 

A cop, Daniel Carter (Aaron Poole), discovered a man near death and rushed him to a small local hospital for treatment. What that cop didn't know was that two men were hunting him down for unknown reasons and his companion is killed in a grotesque manner. 

 

This movie is a WILD ride. It's exactly what you would expect from genuine Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror. Weird stuff just continues to happen, but there's a reason for it all. And it all builds to... something terrible. 

 

Really, this is quite a well made horror film in the tradition of HP Lovecraft. Cultists. Reanimating the dead. Vile creatures. People losing their minds. Gateways to other dimensions. It's all in there, and it is all well-written and makes sense. This is a movie I have meant to see for quite a while and I am happy that I finally did!       

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

higgledy-piggledy \ HIG-uhl-dee-PIG-uhl-dee \ , adverb; 

• in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter. 

adjective: 

• confused; jumbled. 

Origin: Higgledy-piggledy came to English in the late 1500s and is a rhyming compound of uncertain origin. 

Presponse

• To respond to a question before it is finished, often confusing the asker.

Wendy: So are you avail-

Jimmy: No. (Presponse)

Wendy: -ible Monday?

(silence)

Wendy: Are you?

History 

• Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love was founded (1682)
• Federalist Papers: the first of a series of essays was published, calling for the ratification of the US Constitution; the essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787)
• IRT: New York City's first rapid transit subway opened (1904) [Pictured below: The City’s mayor, George McClellan, opens the world-renowned New York City subway system. He actually drove the first passengers, charging them 5¢ to ride a line that, back then, only covered 9.1 miles of track with 28 stations. How things changed…]
• nylon: chemical company DuPont announced the name of its new synthetic fiber (1938)
• Wall Street crash: trading was halted for a cooling-off period after the Dow fell more than 500 points (1997)

Birthdays

• James Cook 1728
• Nicola Paganini 1782
• Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858
  
• Emily Post 1872
• Leif Erickson 1911
• Dylan Thomas 1914
• Teresa Wright 1918
• Nanette Fabray 1920
• Ralph Kiner (MLB) 1922
• Roy Lichtenstein 1923
• Ruby Dee 1924
• Floyd Cramer 1933
• John Cleese 1939
• Lara Parker 1942
• Lee (Melvin) Greenwood 1942
• Carrie Snodgress 1946
• Terry Anderson 1947
• Jack Daniels (Highway 101) 1949
• Garry Tallent (E Street Band) 1949
• Fran Lebowitz 1950
• Jayne Kennedy-Overton 1951
• Roberto Benigni 1952
• Peter Firth 1953
• Robert Picardo 1953
• Simon LeBon (Duran Duran) 1958

• Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 1967 
• Sean Holland 1968
• Sheeri Rappaport 1977
• Kelly Osbourne 1984

  

 

  

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KATY PERRY

 

    

SMOKIN' HOT!

   

Hotty of the day

Monday, October 26, 2026

ablactate \ ab-LAK-teyt \ , verb; 

• to wean. 

Origin: Ablactate entered English in the 1700s and combines the Latin prefix ab- meaning "from" or "away," and lac meaning "milk."

Dank

• Also an expression frequently used by stoners and hippies for something of high quality.

That borritos was dank, man. 
or... 
That borritos was the dankness

 

History

• Erie Canal: 160-mile (257 km.) waterway opened, offering a route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River (1825)
• Gunfight at the OK Corral: a legendary Wild West shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, killed three, wounded three, inspired movies; it did not actually take place in the corral (1881)
• Baby Fae: neonatal infant was given a baboon's heart by transplant surgeon Dr. Leonard L. Bailey in Loma Linda, California; she lived for 21 days (1984)
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: ISIS leader was killed in Syria (2019)

Birthdays

• Domenico Scarlatti 1685 - Composer
  

  
• Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803 - Architect, inventor (the hansom cab)
• C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts)
• Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller 1874 - Philanthropist: cofounder of New York Museum of Modern Art
• H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner 1876 - Actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments)
• Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich)
• John S. (Shively) Knight 1894 - Reporter, editor, publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper)
• Jack Sharkey 1902 - Boxer
• Primo Carnera 1906 - Boxer
• Mahalia Jackson 1911 - Singer
• Charlie Barnett 1913 - Musician (saxophone), bandleader
• Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan, Jr.) 1914 - Actor (The Kid)
• Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)
• Neal Matthews 1929 - Musician (Jordanaires)
• John Arden 1930
• Rodney "Hot Rod" Hundley 1934 - Basketball player, sportscaster
• Bob Hoskins 1942 - Actor (Hook, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
• Michael Piano 1944 - Singer (The Sandpipers)
• Ivan Reitman 1946
• Keith Hopwood 1946 - Singer, musician (Herman's Hermits)
• Pat Sajak 1947 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - cunt.
• Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity)
• Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah 1948 - Baseball player
• Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers 1949 - Baseball player
• Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove 1949 - Baseball player, manager
• Chuck Foreman 1950 - Football player
• Bootsy Collins 1951
• Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros 1951 - Baseball player
• Maggie Roche 1951 - Musician (The Roches)
• Keith Strickland 1953 - Musician (B-52's)
• Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)
• D.W. Moffett 1954
• Rita Wilson 1958 - Actress (Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, Runaway Bride)
• Cary Elwes 1962 - Actor (Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights)
• Dylan McDermott 1962 - Actor (Twister, Steel Magnolias)
• Marla Maples 1963
• Natalie Merchant 1963 - Musician (10,000 Maniacs)
• Thomas Cavanagh 1968 - Actor (TV: Ed) 
  Seth MacFarlane 1973 (Family Guy, Ted)

 

  

 

  

Happy?

Sunday, October 25, 2026

flapdoodle \ FLAP-dood-l \ , noun;

• Informal . nonsense; bosh. 

Origin: Flapdoodle came to English in the 1800s and is of uncertain origin.

ratfuck

• Politics: Formerly known as "the double-cross," it refers to infiltration and sabotage of the opposition party, particuarly during (but not limited to) an election campaign. The second half of "All the President's Men" describes ratfucking done to 1972 Democratic presidential candidates by employees of the Committee to Re-Elect Nixon. A typical ratfuck is to falsely claim there's a political rally for the opposition party, order 300 pizzas for delivery in the name of the party, and then nobody shows up.

Ken Clawson, Nixon's communications director, confessed to a ratfuck when he told how he forged a letter making it look like a Democratic candidate was a racist.

History

• The Charge of the Light Brigade: the British assaulted Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava, which was commemorated in a poem by Tennyson (1854)
• Battle of Leyte Gulf: one of the largest naval battles in history took place between the US and Japan as the US invaded the Philippines (1944)
• United Nations: voted mainland China in, Taiwan out (1971)
• Operation Urgent Fury: the US invaded Grenada in response to the execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (1983)

Birthdays

• Georges Bizet 1838
  
• Pablo Picasso 1881
• Richard Byrd 1888
• Leo G. Carroll 1892
• Whit Bissell 1909
• Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley) 1912
• Lee MacPhail 1917
• Chubby Jackson 1918
• Buddy Thomson (MLB) 1923
• Earl Palmer 1924
• Billy Barty 1924
  
• Jimmy Heath (Heath Brothers) 1926
• Barbara Cook 1927
• Marion Ross 1928
• Jeanne Cooper 1928
• Tony Franciosca 1928
• Earl Ingarfield 1934
• Jeanne Black 1937
• Bobby Knight 1940
• Ann Tyler 1941
• Helen Reddy 1942

• Jon Anderson (Yes) 1944
• Taffy Danoff (Starland Vocal Band) 1944
• Glen Tipton (Judas Priest) 1948 
• Brian Kerwin 1949
• Matthais Jabs (The Scorpions) 1955
• Nancy Cartwright 1957
• Mark Miller (Sawyer Brown) 1958
• Nick Thorp (Curiosity Killed the Cat) 1958
• Christina Amphlett (Divinyls) 1960
• Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
• Tracy Nelson 1963
• Michael Boatman 1964
• Speech 1968
• Chely Wright 1970
• Adam Goldberg 1970
• Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) 1970
• Midori 1971
• Pedro Martinez (MLB) 1971
• Lamont Bentley 1973
• Ben Gould 1980
• Young Rome 1981
• Jerome Jones (Immature) 1981
• Katy Perry (Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson) 1984