Werewolf Wednesday Digest – May 2012, Part 1

2012-05-16

It’s been a few weeks since my last celebration of Werewolf Wednesday, but when I woke up in my Boston hotel room this morning, I had this inspirational image by Tandye in my inbox, so I knew the time was right. Being married to a talented artist who loves werewolves as much as I do is what you might call “an optimal scenario” (and she’s available for commissions on DA & FA). Now that Tandye’s set things in motion, let’s do this. I’m…
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Werewolf Wednesday Digest – April 2012, Part 1

2012-04-04

Lately I’ve been seeing the #WerewolfWednesday hashtag pop up on Twitter. I don’t know who started it, but I like it, and I feel bad that I rarely have anything special to post on that particular day. Now, at the suggestion of @DavidJonFuller, I’m going to try Doing A Thing (and David is, too). Every Wednesday I’m going to post a digest of all the werewolfy goings-on that I’ve heard about during the previous six days but didn’t get a chance…
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Teach Your Kids the Alphabet the Awesome Way with the “ABC Monsters” Video

2012-03-30

I saw this on FEARnet yesterday and loved it. Some of the references went over my head (especially the “classic” ones), but I was happy to see ‘W’ properly represented. ‘B’ and ‘D’ were great, too. Nice work by La Pompadour!

“Shades of Red” – Red Riding Hood as told on Facebook

2012-03-12

“Digital storytelling” agency Eastwood Media is cooking up something interesting on Facebook. Shades of Red is “a modern-day re-telling of Red Riding Hood”  – ho-hum – “that will be told through facebook” – wait, what? Seven years ago, Werewolf’s Guide to Life author Ritch Duncan told a terrific werewolf story via “this is real” blog posts. That was linear story-telling from a single point of view, though. A multi-person story happening in real time on a social network like Facebook sounds much…
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Astonishing Japanese DVD cover for “Never Cry Werewolf”

2012-01-07

I’m cleaning up all the unread Google alerts I have from December and I just found this little gem: a Dread Central post about Japanese DVD covers that enthusiastically misinterpret the English-language films they represent. Specifically, I’d like to share with you the Japanese cover for Syfy’s Never Cry Werewolf. School Girl vs Wolfman. Stunning on a number of levels. God bless that Japanese inscrutability! One thing missing from the Dread Central article is a link to an import site where one could purchase…
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She-Wolf Wants to Know: Who’s Your Favourite Female Werewolf?

2011-10-22

Academic, writer, publisher, friend and fellow werewolf enthusiast Dr. Hannah Priest has a terrific post up on her blog, She-Wolf, in which a number of contributors (including your humble servant) make a case for our favourite female werewolves. Hannah’s the authority on lady lycanthropes, so the results of this poll will be canonical – we’ll be logging the results with the Library of Congress and Wolfram Alpha. The nominees are: Kelsey ‘Boobs’ Bornstein (in ‘Boobs’ by Suzy McKee Charnas) Sergeant Angua (in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld…
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Drink up! Newcastle Werewolf “Blood Red” Ale

2011-08-30

I’m moving house at the moment, and as we all know, the first thing you’re supposed to do after hauling a couch to its new home is sit on it, drink a beer and stare at all the cardboard boxes your stuff is in. Now, I’m not a big drinker, but if someone gave me a bottle (or a case) of Newcastle Werewolf “Blood Red” Ale I would know just what to do. I would drink it.

A New Blog by an Old Werewolf, or The Search for Lysandra

2011-07-24

I was recently given a link to a new blog called Andronica’s Wolfish Thoughts. The link arrived in an email from Andronica herself, surname Llewellyn, although after reading the blog I suspect her writing might be found under a few other names as well – some of them from antiquity. I’ve just spent the last 30 minutes reading the blog, from oldest post to newest (there are only four at the moment), and I’m honestly flummoxed. The best I can do,…
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Legend of the Superbeasts: The Wolfman Versus Godzilla

2011-07-18

Werewolf News reader Komodo recently brought this delightful project to my attention, saying it was interesting but maybe not worth its own post. I think it has just the right amount of esoteric 80′s monster movie kitsch for a Monday morning. I’ve added a few links to Komodo’s text to help those who are, like me, unfamiliar with the world of the daikaijū. In the mid eighties, when Toho was gearing up to release its first Godzilla film after a…
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The Worst Werewolf Book Covers Ever, Part IV: Special Canadian Edition!

2011-07-16

When I was little, I wanted to be a bad-ass werewolf more than anything. I saw Jon Talbain the same way that black people saw Barak Obama on the night of his election. I dreamed of prowling through endless woodlands, my howl a primal and symbolic middle finger resounding over all the stupid cities that teh hyumans were trying to imprison me in. However, I soon realized how monumentally retarded I was being. In a juvenile epiphany that seemed to…
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