On 2010-06-20 22:45, necroloid wrote:
I always loved scarring people although it almost turned my then four year old brother into a murderer.
The two of us had just finished watching the television premiere of the Exorcist(I know, what mother would allow their 5 and 9 year old children to stay up and watch that. Mine would, god love her!). Just before bed, I flipped my eyelids inside out and, in a controlled belching voice, promised to take his soul to hell while he slept. In 20 minutes the house was filled the cacophony of my brother crying for my mother swearing I was possessed, and my mother screaming at us to get to bed. So I jumped into the top bunk and every now and then I would poke my head down again and scare him again! Such fun! Finally we fell a sleep, woke up and went to school the next morning.
When we got back from school in the afternoon my mom took my brother aside and asked him why she had found the carving knife under his mattress while making his bed. He said that he was so afraid that I was possessed by the devil, that he got the knife from the kitchen, and was ready to thrust it through the top bunk mattress, into my back, if he heard any suspicious sounds from me! Thank God I did not snore!

On 2010-06-20 22:10, Anansi wrote:
I love this thread, It's gorgeous,
I read and know and recognise. I am amongst kindred souls. Thank you Tony for starting this thread.
I feel like I should say a proper hello as I've been on the Café for a few months now and think I've found my home.
How does this sound? (with due nod to the Forer Effect):


You have a great need for other people to like and admire you and a strange attraction to yard sales and boxes of antique keys . You have a tendency to be critical of yourself, which is in turn magnified by your peers on The Magic Café. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage although once you played a level 9 assassin with a Vorpal blade and vanquished a Necromancer. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them with your outstanding mental fortress of a mind, honed by years of studying Kato in 'The Green Hornet' and making sure you concentrate on the Moon and not the finger (thereby seeing the heavenly glory). Disciplined and self-controlled outside and with a slightly non-standard musculature for a martial artist, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside, even though you have mastered the 'one-inch-punch' and can use Nunchukas and a three sectioned staff. Dan Inosanto is a personal hero and you still look fondly on that collection of shuriken in your middle drawer. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing, but you still Paypal Outlaw regardless. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and frequently purchase alternative Tarot decks yet become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations placed upon you by restaurant management. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof such as the Necronomicon or TSR's Monster Manual. There have been times when you have felt very alone, such as when you decided to purchase the RPG 'Paranoia' or voiced a negative opinion about Neil Gaiman. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others, they are either afraid, call Ghostbusters or take out an injunction against you. At times (whilst working) you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times (When you are approached by a predatory member of the opposite sex) you are introverted, wary, reserved (though have some great scenarios running through your mind). Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic (such as trying to exhume Roald Dahl in order to commission RicHeka into turning Roald's pinky into a pendulum).
Security (and how to breach it) is one of your major goals in life. You believe entirely that Hollywood will eventually do a re-make of 'Logan's Run' and 'The Devil Rides Out' and just recently, you successfully outbid all rivals for the trampoline used by Vincent Price in 'Theatre of Blood'.

;)

On 2010-06-21 16:44, Bill Ligon wrote:
There is also the love of strange artifacts. I think we bizarrists have a more refined love of such things, as antiques, ethnic and "primitive" tools and weapons and such, but magicians everywhere are attracted by gaudy boxes with dragons on them. And have we not, most of us anyway, evolved from this ourselves?

On 2011-06-17 19:15, Steve_Mollett wrote:
I've also re-collected most of the early "Creepy" and "Eerie" mags.

On 2011-06-17 20:04, Godzilla wrote:

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On 2011-06-17 19:15, Steve_Mollett wrote:
I've also re-collected most of the early "Creepy" and "Eerie" mags.

For me it was Warren Magazine ...'VAMPIRELLA'. And, of course...'Godzilla'! "I'm Nuclear Infected"
I collect everything from mags,comics,models,statues,art work (Such Greats as Frazzetta,Boris,Bisly and so on)and all the new artist for "Vampirella"!(From the early 70's and now on !)
Always, loved the Lady's of the night !
How fitting for Bizarre...Darkness with the touch of Beauty !