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Here's that video for Island of Lost Souls by Blondie.

And Mitchell and Webb ponder: "Are We the Baddies?" 

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Anonymous

On the subject of Matt Barry and comedic versions of already funny early 80s stuff… I would argue the Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place did a very good job of doing exactly that. Mostly because they never winked at the camera, explicitly, or proverbially. There’s really something to be said for playing a bit completely straight and few people do that better than Matt Barry and the rest of the cast of that show. (Which includes Richard Ayoade..)

Anonymous

I mean, when you’re done Manimal, you could do worse than Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place. Assuming you can find it that is.

Anonymous

Back to Gilles de Rais AND Aleister Crowley....Back in 1930 Arthur Calder-Marshall, representing the Oxford University Poetry Society, invited Crowley on campus to deliver a lecture on any subject of his choosing. Crowley’s choice was to speak on the infamous French ‘black magician’ Gilles de Rais. Gilles de Rais, a soldier and comrade of Joan of Arc, was accused of having abducted over 800 children to use in his nefarious alchemical experiments. The outward thrust of Crowley’s lecture was that 800 is a rather large number. Crowley wrote: ‘Did the disappearance of the first four hundred, say, put no parents on their guard?’ However, the lecture could also be viewed as a very thinly veiled defense of Crowley’s own reputation. Both Crowley and de Rais were surrounded by fantastic tales, which although sensational were also highly improbable. Of course, the lecture was cancelled due to pressure from the Oxford authorities. Not missing a beat Crowley had a pamphlet version of the lecture printed and distributed in Oxford (for Six Pence a piece) on February 3rd, 1930 - the same day the lecture was to have been delivered.

Anonymous

Yeah - he came up on a recent discussion of necrophilia and it's one of those cases like Bathory where there's evidence - yet there's also (at a minimum) the whiff of exaggeration and/or frame-up. I'm pretty skeptical but I have not done any deep dives into the root evidence. Compare that to something like the beast of Gevaudan where there are plenty of church and (somewhat inflated) newspaper records. We may not all agree on what killed the victims - but there's little dispute people died, only a question of how many should be included among the surest victims.