Department of Glacial Emotion

adriofthedead:

beautyandterrordance:

20 Random Horror Facts

1) Stephen King’s addiction to drugs and alcohol was profound enough that when he was finally clean in 1987, he found the manuscript for Cujo and had to re-read it to recall what it was about, as he literally couldn’t remember much about writing it at all because it was written under the influence.

2) Edgar Allan Poe served two years in the Army but was court-martialed and promptly discharged.

3) George Romero had a cameo in The Silence of the Lambs as one of Hannibal Lecter’s prison guards.

4) Bruce Campbell kicked Chuck Norris right in the balls once. A week later, Chuck sent Bruce a fruit basket thanking him for the honor.

5) Rumor has it that Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite (someone born with both male and female sex organs, usually has male organs removed and is raised as a female). She has never commented on these rumors, but someone with this condition apparently cannot have children. Jamie and her hubby have two adopted kids.

6) H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937 but didn’t have a headstone until 1977 when fans of his pitched in to buy him one.

7) John Carpenter named the character of Laurie Strode (Halloween) after his first girlfriend.

8) Alfred Hitchcock was honored with a U.S. Postage stamp in 1998.

9) Dario Argento’s hands are almost always the gloved killer’s hands in his films.

10) Vincent Price attended the opening night of the first production of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show”, the stage musical that was the basis for “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”.

11) Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) was badly burned by boiling water at age five and had several skin grafts. Not that you can tell now!

12) Lucio Fulci was broke at the time of his death. Dario Argento paid for his funeral.

13) After writing Jaws and realizing it painted the shark as a heartless villain, Peter Benchley became a huge advocate for the preservation and conservation of sharks, in particular the Great White.

14) When asked about education, Quentin Tarantino quoted: “When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them ‘no, I went to films.’”

15) It is said that Wes Craven worked in pornographic films as an editor, writer and director before he had success in horror.

16) Besides writing Psycho, author Robert Bloch wrote over twenty novels and hundreds of short stories. It is he, not Stephen King, who originally quoted “I have the heart of a little boy; I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

17) Bela Lugosi was offered the part of the Frankenstein monster but declined it, paving the way for Boris Karloff.

18) Christopher Lee has been in over 275 films since 1947. This is a Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever.

19) Ruggero Deodato was arrested after his film Cannibal Holocaust was released, and was forced by a judge to produce the actors from the movie because they were feared dead.

20) Janet Leigh’s body double for the shower scene in Psycho was ironically stabbed to death in 1988.

(via Fascination With Fear)

Bruce Campbell kicked Chuck Norris right in the balls once. A week later, Chuck sent Bruce a fruit basket thanking him for the honor.

Bruce Campbell kicked Chuck Norris right in the balls once.

BRUCE CAMPBELL. KICKED. CHUCK NORRIS. IN THE BALLS.

this tidbit makes me so unbelievably happy I can’t even

queenofmia:

imaweaponofmassiveconsumption:

areufilipino:

I don’t know if anyone here knows this, but Unix is essentially everything computer-based. Steve Jobs had his own innovations, but man is essentially the sole reason why the internet exists. 

Did not expect this. Rest in peace, sir.

this man basically gave birth to the internet

I don’t think it’s necessary to belittle Steve Jobs in order to ask for some recognition of the achievements of Dennis Ritchie. Steve Jobs was also someone who had new ideas and innovations that changed the computing industry.

On a side note, Dennis Ritchie was my dad’s lecturer at university for a year.

thedailywhat:

Oh, Canada of the Day: You know how you fall and break your hip in the lobby of hospital but don’t worry about it because you think “at least I’m in a hospital”? That’s exactly what happened to 82-year-old Doreen Wallace.

Defying common sense, however, the staff at Niagara Falls’ Greater Niagara General Hospital did nearly everything in their power to prevent Wallace from getting treatment.

Firstly, they told her she would have to wait until an ambulance was called. Then, they kept her on the ground for 30 minutes without any assistance. Lastly, they wrapped her head — which was bleeding from the fall — in a dirty blanket, and had a security guard wipe away the blood with a paper towel.

Oh, and did I mention that Wallace was at the hospital visiting her dying husband? 

“It was horrible,” Wallace told the Toronto Star. “Everybody who walked through the door stopped and stared at me.”

At some point, an orthopedic surgeon walked by and helped Wallace onto a wheelchair. By then the ambulance had finally arrived — from a different hospital — and Wallace was taken to be treated… 50 yards away.

“Clearly this is very disappointing and isn’t the standard of care that people should expect,” Ontario’s Minister of Health Deb Matthews said.

Dr. Kevin Smith, the Niagara Health System’s supervisor, attributed the sorry ordeal to a case of miscommunication and the staff’s poor understanding of how to deal with an in-hospital injury. He says a review of the hospital’s policy concerning the paging of ambulances for on-site emergencies is being reviewed.

NHS has apologized to Wallace, but she would much rather have the hospital ensure that she’s the last person this happens to. “All I want is that if this happens again,” she said, “nobody’s treated like that.”

[thestar / canpress / gawker.]

thedailywhat:

The Back Side Of The Force of the Day: An Offbeat Bride reader recently shared a rather heartwarming story about an autistic flower girl at a friend’s wedding who overcame her apprehension with a little help from the littlest Jedi.

“T” was understandably anxious about having to perform her flower girl duties in front of so many wedding guests, and expressed it by hiding under her bed.

It was only after her aunt promised her a Yoda backpack that she agreed to come out.

“Her aunt took her to the toy shop,” the reader writes, “and from that moment on Yoda sat on her shoulder and she seemed to feel safe with him there.”

She continues:

When it came time to put on the dress and head to the church T flat refused to go without Yoda on her shoulder. Her mother, the bride, said to her family “If Yoda helps T get to the church and walk down that aisle with all those people watching, then Yoda is coming!”

[offbeatbride.]