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Man-Thing

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About Me

Once I was Ted Sallis. Now I am not. Fear me, then burn at my touch, for whoever knows fear burns at the touch of the Man-Thing.

My Interests

Touching, and burning, fear.

I'd like to meet:

Other muck encrusted denizens of the bog, as well as Mike Ploog-proportioned women.

Music:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Movies:

Passion Fish.

Television:

Gentle Ben. I was an extra on that show once...when I was still a human.

Books:

Anything by Faulkner.

My Blog

Stim-celluloid.

They appear to have made a film about me. I don't know how to react to this. There are so many, more deserving swamp-based heroes, like Bayou Jack, the Cajun Crusader, and Pogo. I can't deny some ...
Posted by Man-Thing on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cupid's ebon bolt.

Valentine's Day. Memories rise out of the quagmire, excavated skeletons of love-gone-by. Ellen and I, at the movie house in town, her bawling at the end of "Love Story" (held over for a third straig...
Posted by Man-Thing on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A bone is a part of the whole.

Sometimes I miss having a skeletal structure. Dwelling in an indestructable mossy shell has its plusses, but I find myself wistfully remembering ball-and-socket joints and metacarpals, tibia and fibu...
Posted by Man-Thing on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sometimes, I like ambient trip-hop...

... I just don't always get it. Also, it makes me sleepy. I have to shamble off to bed now....
Posted by Man-Thing on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Intrinsic value of the open road.

Rain falls, making the bogs overflow and spill forth their secrets. The drops hit the forrest canopy like a half-mad drummer boy. I sit beneath a weeping willow, shielded in a loamy womb. Later, I...
Posted by Man-Thing on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fluffy spearmint cloudscape.

Disjointed memories. A great sense of fear, emanating from a weed-choked, antediluvian manse, deep in the verdant swamp. A pale figure in black. A man with glowing red eyes. A battle. Fear burne...
Posted by Man-Thing on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST