h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Saturday I watched "A Shoggoth on the Roof" with ShowGoth. That's a Cthulhu version of "The Fiddler on the Roof" complete with tentacles, shoggoths, lunatic scientists and weird sea creatures.

Almost three hours of fun and a tad horror.

The artist are now planning a similar version of "Sound of Music" called "Sound of Darkness"

Was this a live show?

Yes, an almost three hours long musical. If you google "showgoth" you wíll end up at their site, only in Swedish though.

I don't know Lovecraft at all ... must do some online checking. Might be fun trying a parody.

Thanks, DQ! What an inventive idea.

And , go for it, Willem. At least you'll get a laugh.

OK I have my hands on 'At the Mountains of Madness'. Will read it - if possible!

You are a brave man, Willem.

Lovecraft was only middling at the craft of writing, and some of the classism/racism is pretty hard to justify this day and age, but what he excelled at is pointing out at every turn how devastating to the mind was the mere proximity of the Old Ones, much less the sight of Chtulu.

Somehow Lovecraft is even creepier when you realise this is what he looks like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg

, indeed.

He's the undertaker you don't want to see at your granny's funeral.

And in case I don't see you-all at the holidays, I'll leave you with Lovecraft's inspiring holiday message:

"It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind."

H.P. Lovecraft's most memorable character:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120509185304/powerlisting/images/9/90/Great-cthulhu.jpg

Continuing from post 20 (if you're in Brunel, just tap the top ball in the arrow icon in the lower right corner of this post).




...Still in his Vogon form, H.P. Lovecraft turns to face Dr. Who and his companions, remarking, "You can relax, all will be well, when he awakens, he will remember nothing."

Looking back towards his slumbering opponent, he continues, "Its said of my race that we stopped evolving the day that we left the sea. Can you imagine what terrors the deeps of my homeworld must harbor to make that so?"




Fade to Dr. Who and company aboard the tardis, zoom out.

Exit theme.




So, it remains to bridge the gap between posts 10 and 20.

"You've gotta have a gimmick. I've got a gimmick.