Apparently, I talk like Lovecraft. That is to say, I use big words and sound like a walking, talking book. This is according to the longtime reports of my family, friends, coworkers, and the several hundred high school students I have taught since 2001. But it’s the comments to this effect arising out of my…
Author: Matt Cardin
Teeming Brain founder and editor Matt Cardin is the author of DARK AWAKENINGS, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP, A COURSE IN DEMONIC CREATIVITY: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO THE INNER GENIUS, and TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN. He is also the editor of BORN TO FEAR: INTERVIEWS WITH THOMAS LIGOTTI and the academic encyclopedias MUMMIES AROUND THE WORLD; GHOSTS, SPIRITS, AND PSYCHICS: THE PARANORMAL FROM ALCHEMY TO ZOMBIES; and HORROR LITERATURE THROUGH HISTORY.
Returning from Mo*Con III and resurrecting The Teeming Brain
What’s that? I run a blog, you say? And blogs are things that you have to update? Oh, yes. I had forgotten all about that. Yes, it’s true, I took an unannounced and unplanned month-long vacation from The Teeming Brain. I hope the suspense wasn’t too much for those of you who tune in regularly….
A meltdown still in progress (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: The meltdown has not been cancelled America’s economic crash and fall from international supremacy are still proceeding nicely, notwithstanding the proliferation of early calls for “the end of the credit crisis,” which seems to be bandied around as a psychological euphemism for “Everything’s great again!” and also notwithstanding the proliferation of…
America’s bill has just come due (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: America’s bill is due. Are you ready to pay? For those of you who still don’t know — and just where in God’s name have you been? –- Richard Heinberg is a major voice in the collective peak oil/economic meltdown/peak civilization conversation. He’s awesomely smart, insightful, sensitive, educated, and well informed….
Say goodbye to business as usual (Headlines from the Meltdown)
CARDIN COMMENTS: Bye-bye to Business As Usual If there’s a single theme that unites the past week’s crop of news, analysis, commentary, and prophetic utterances, it is that Business As Usual — a term that surely deserves the proper-noun caps by this point — is altogether dead. Okay, that may be jumping the gun a…
Joan Collins says tabloid culture has dumbed us all down
Who would have thought it? None other than Joan Collins, one of the living symbols of a former era in mass entertainment culture, deplores the catastrophic collapse of taste, intelligence, and attention span that’s been spawned by the current tabloid-ized version of that very world. Just check out this excerpt from a recent interview in…
Slow bleed or spurting wound? (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: An economic bleedout or a swift death? I’ve written such an extended assortment of commentary to go with the assembled items below that I’ll let them do most of the talking for me this week. Just scroll through and look for my introductory comments, which are clearly marked. But I’ll pause…
My interview with Stephen Jones in Cemetery Dance #59
My interview with horror editor/anthologist extraordinaire Stephen Jones has finally been given a definite publication date in the venerable horror industry magazine Cemetery Dance. I first mentioned this interview nearly a year ago, in May of 2007, in a post titled “Stephen Jones on the death of reading” that contained a substantial excerpt detailing Steve’s…
The end of the future as we knew it (Headlines from the Meltdown)
GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: It’s the end of the future as we knew it (and I feel fine) What a week! From food riots to fuel prices to more evidence of financial and economic meltdown, it was one for the history books. But in fact what’s more important to notice than the significance of all…
Food riots in Egypt
Here’s the link and associated description: Global Food Crisis April 9, 2008 In some countries, food inflation is turning violent, with Divya Reddy, Eurasia Group; Victor Lespinasse, GrainAnalyst.com; and CNBC’s Erin Burnett. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=707473516 The video stream takes a bit of time to load — or at least it does through my satellite Internet connection —…