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December 15. Mothman and MIBs! #dsxp #darkshadows #mothman
So, on December 15, 1967, we saw Dark Shadows Episode 385, in which Trask arrives to interrogate Vicky. On that same day, an hour or so after that episode aired, the Silver Bridge collapsed, taking 46...
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MY FAVORITE MONSTER BLOG-A-THON
MY FAVORITE MONSTER BLOGROLL Laura, the Phoenix: Burn, Baby, Burn!The Phoenix may not be Dark Shadows’ best supernatural villain, but she was its first, paving the way for the kinds of stories that...
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Enter Collinwood
When I began the DSXP, I considered Collinwood to be the protagonist of the show. Yes, that’s stretching the concept of “protagonist,” but then again, the idea of what a protagonist must and must...
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How do you solve a problem like Tim Burton? Part One. #dsxp #darkshadows
I’m no Harlan Ellison, but I do enjoy a good rant. And I enjoy writing them. No, I take that back. I don’t enjoy writing them. I hate writing them. Because it means that I have a need to write...
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We have a winner of SHERLOCK and DS2012! #dsxp
Depending on how you look at it. A tip of the deerstalker goes to the fabulous — and fabulously named — Christine “CeeCee” Chappell! Many fine answers, but this tops it for imagination and...
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From Barnabas to Babylon… and back again! #dsxp #b5xp #darkshadows
Hello, gang… Been getting e-mail from friends of the Foundation saying how much they miss it, so I’ll throw out some items to keep youse guys in the loop. Just wrapped up the musical of JEKYLL &...
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Notes for future analysis on class structure within a reverse-engineered DS...
Looking ahead to the DSXP of summer of 2014, I must remember to see the show through the lens of its final moments. Everything has been burned away but the essentials, and it is marvelously revealing...
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Dark Shadows: FIASCO! #fiasco #darkshadows #games #rpg
Fiasco is an RPG that I can actually play. As with Cuz B, I get very bogged down in wildly complicated rules systems, which is pretty much a rules system beyond a D2. But then I found FIASCO. It’s...
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It’s the Big One, Elizabeth (Collins Stoddard)! #dsxp #darkshadows
Okay, the DSXP Phase 4 begins on December 21! It’s a marathon so big, I have to split it into two chunks. Ten days in December to cover the pre-Barnabas stuff, and then the summer to do the rest. “But...
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