Warning: this post is filled with factual history! Once upon a time, God, Vishnu, the Greek titans, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster were hanging out at Stephen Hawking’s house playing poker. One of the titans had a little too much ambrosia and started spouting off about all the cool things…
Don’t you just hate the Ides of March? Don’t you hate it mostly because you can never exactly remember what it means? You: Is it Ides today? Well, it’s not today. And you might be wondering why we’re telling you about the Ides on the wrong day. We just like…
Last post, we were like: Okay, you were like: But we had a whale of a time, and that’s all that really matters. So, let’s recapture that magic, dear reader. In our last post we learned about Hercules’ murder of Megara and their children. There’s something you need to know…
Who’s that guy? Oh, yeah, who’s that guy? Disney told you, dear readers, when you were so small and sweet. Your muscles were tender, like a lamb’s, and you still had a healthy amount of baby fat that would have brought the flavors together. All you would have needed was…
A dear friend of Stuff Monsters Like, let’s call her Samara-if-she-had-advanced-past-the-age-of-early-adolescence, spent her 30th birthday adamantly alone drinking a 12-pack of beer and a fifth of whiskey until she passed out on the kitchen floor in her high school prom dress, which no longer fit. Now that’s not bad, not…
Click here to read Part 1, or click here to read Part 2 of the Orestes Saga. So, to recap: dysfunctional family is dysfunctional for generations up to Orestes, who has just learned that his mother and her lover have killed his father. Filial duty dictates that Orestes avenge his…
We ended our last post with Aegisthus, who killed his uncle after Atreus served Aegisthus’ father (*cough* and grandfather *cough*) his older children to him as a main course. Aegisthus killed again, but before we get to that murder, let’s look at the victim, Agamemnon. It’s difficult to think of…
The holidays are finally over and that means it’s finally time to rid yourself of your family for another year. We here at Stuff Monsters Like know all about your family. We spend an inordinate amount of time watching them from the windows late at night and examining their things…
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Featuring movie essays from the Head Monsters of SML and others that explore our love for horror cinema! Published by the Collinsport Historical Society.
