So great to see others making the H. P. Lovecraft/Creative Commons connection. Visit http://www.lovecraftcountry.com/ where you'll find a CC licensed online comic based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
In reading their "Pretend as if Nothing is Wrong" essay, I wonder if Joss Whedon's Sunnydale was inspired by Lovecraft's Arkham. Here's a town where people routinely dissappear, go insane, are eaten by monsters and so on, and yet everyone acts like none of this is happening. At the local Miskatonic University professors routinely go on trips to obscure parts of the world and come back raving lunatics, if they come back at all, and yet, as in Buffy, nobody makes a big deal of it. Or maybe this is really how people would act to the presence of such horrors in their lives. Like the baby burning in Milo, Maine where life goes on and everything is just routine.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
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I am from Milo, and although the town is a decayed, I find your idea of it becoming a place where welfare is normal and people think its odd to not be on it to be at the very least a little condensending, and at most a broad generalization. Perhaps the place is cursed, but there are honest hard working peopel there who struggle to live, and get a little pissed when there misfortune gets gawked at by out of towners on Safari.
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