: What's weird to me is that "the market" doesn't set prices. Individual sellers do.

The other weird thing is that people often don't want to buy "cheap" things, even if the quality is good or high but that only the price is low.

Por ejemplo, Arizona Iced Tea. As the founder/owner said and I paraphrase, 'We make money selling at the prices we do. Why raise them?'. Also, Bimbo bread. I buy that brand because it's $1.99 per loaf, which is $2.50 less than the next-cheapest locally, and it's...

#LOL #eyesight

: Okay.

It is time for to return to reading. I've been reading some Michael Shea today, and after lunch I started reading one I'd not read before. It's way good stuff.

#CoSoHorror #literature #spookykids

: China's military is having predictable purges as Xi's increasing fears of losing control.

#CoSoNews #China

https://youtu.be/hCmbPSaSkgM

Your reaction to the latest US political development:

: As you may have seen or guessed, Telegram, Truth Social, and Twitter are ablaze now with "The Left wants this!", "The Left did this!", and "We're gonna FIGHT!" rhetoric. I do smell a White Knight Scenario that just went from 3rd gear into 4th.

Reminds me of a certain "Twilight Zone" episode that starred a young Dennis Hopper.

2/2: ...disgust horror. Slashers are fine, sometimes. Possession movies are okay, I guess, sometimes. Gore is perfectly acceptable, but it's better in moderation and in support of imagination. Slow burns are alright, if they pay off and don't wind up sucking because someone thought it made the film arthouse, and yes, I'm looking at you, A24.

This message brought to you buy next to no one wanting to get behind the kinds of stories I pitch but preferring safe, boring "horror".

1/2: Whenever I feel down about what frequently seems to the state of #horror #literature and #movies, at least from my personal perspective and preferences, I turn to reading the stories of the late, great Michael Shea, Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Algernon Blackwood, Robert E. Howard, and Harlan Ellison and watch the films of Osgood Perkins, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, and Brian De Palma.

My kind of horror is more weird than shock and...

: Okay. Fine.

It's just past 3 PM EST. So I gotta go do Actual Things now... on a Saturday, no less.

#bah #blar #phooey

#whoopsie #LOL @Museek

: Bonjour, mess ameese!

#truefact #smolvictories

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: I saw “Longlegs”, and I was very happy with it. I would, of course, as I am directly in its target audience. Others in the theater were not happy at all about it, because they were expecting a typical slasher movie, not a movie by Oz Perkins.

Once it is available on physical media, I will absolutely be adding it to my collection.

#CoSoMovies #CoSoHorror #movies #spookykids