Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Sunday, January 14, 2018
EUROPA CLIPPER
Europa Clipper - Europa
is an icy moon that orbits Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The
Galileo space probe confirmed the moon has a thin atmosphere, is covered by thick
ice and flexes tidally. The surface is covered with reddish-brown hatch marks, possibly
left behind by irradiated salt water deposits. The Hubble telescope found water
vapor shooting sixty miles in height, prompting the theory of a subsurface
ocean on this strange world. The USA has planned a new mission of discovery, the
Europa Clipper, named for high seas ship voyages in the not so distant past. For
the first time, a space probe might discover life outside Earth. Still in the
planning stages, the radiation-tolerant spacecraft will use Jupiter’s gravity
to slingshot by the moon, 45 revolutions within 16 miles of the surface. Passing
through the water above the surface will allow analysis of the chemical makeup but
avoids the need to drill through ice layers. NASA is sending instruments aboard
including cameras, spectrometers, radar, magnetometer, thermometer and instruments
to detect atmospheric water and particles. Every great story starts the same
way. What if? Could unimaginable creatures inhabit this familiar yet so alien underwater
world? Truly, this is a new age of exploration.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Sunday, January 7, 2018
HP LOVECRAFT
HP LOVECRAFT - HP (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft was born to a lunatic father and fragile mother in Providence RI where many of his tales are set. His grandfather, a successful businessman, died. Resulting in the family losing their prestigious home. Meanwhile Lovecraft himself had a nervous breakdown but was also cursed with poor physical health. Both circumstances led to his failure to obtain a high school diploma, leaving Brown no longer an option. He toyed with amateur journalism and published his first short story, The Alchemist, in 1916. His mother became institutionalized, confined to the same mental hospital as his father, HPL was desperate. Lovecraft married and shortly thereafter his wife lost her business. He lived in Brooklyn NY but was robbed and returned to Providence. Lacking conventional skills, his job prospects diminished, and he struggled to make it as a working writer. The period from 1919 to 1920, Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, inspired such works as The White Ship, The Cats of Ulthar, Nyarlathotep and The Nameless City. The first story in the Cthulhu Mythos. He placed short stories in pulps, like Weird Tales almost exclusively, in the Twenties and Thirties. He declined Weird Tales’s offer of an editor position. He was fully capable of writing commercially viable stories (The Dunwich Horror) which the Weird Tales editor wanted but pursued work he couldn’t sell for profit. He left some unsubmitted (The Shadow Over Innsmouth), didn’t respond to a novel query simply because his notes weren’t typed up into submission format (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward) and other bungled efforts. Long separated, he agreed to divorce with his wife, but when he said he signed the decree, he actually had not. His inheritance dwindled until he was nearly broke so he wouldn’t eat to continue sending letters. Cancer and chronic pain plagued him until his death in 1937, killed by poverty at the very young age of 46. His work is rooted in the themes of science, the occult, decayed antiques, gothic architecture, churches and graveyards, Anglophilia, gods and monsters. His posthumous collections became best sellers but his writing was virtually unknown in his lifetime.
https://chadschimke.blogspot.com/2015/02/dunwich-horror-review.html
https://chadschimke.blogspot.in/2017/06/lovecraft-bloch-comics-trio.html
https://chadschimke.blogspot.com/2015/02/dunwich-horror-review.html
Thursday, January 4, 2018
SOCIAL MEDIA STATS
Blogger
stats: 1,664,701 page views & 751 posts as of January 2018
Facebook
stats: 5,729 page likes as of January 2018
Goodreads
stats: 5,068 friends & 540 followers as of January 2018
Twitter
stats: 50,962 followers as of January 2018
Podbean
stats: 1,778 plays as of January 2018
Pinterest
stats: 358 followers & 1,547 pins as of January 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
HORROR 2018
HORROR 2018
- Here’s my short list of (potentially good) films for this year along with a
couple years of recap. There are still a lot of remakes but Hollywood seems to
be taking more risks on horror recently.
Insidious The
Last Key - January 4
Day of the
Dead Bloodline - January 5
Winchester -
February 2
The
Strangers Prey at Night - March 9
A Quiet
Place - April 6
The School -
April 13
Predator - August
3
The Meg - August
18
Halloween - October
18
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