* Happy birthday to the great Tom Spurgeon! (Via Peggy Burns.)
* My media discovery of the month: Mashed in Plastic: The David Lynch Mash-Up Album. It’s a seamlessly flowing collection of 18 mash-ups that draw from the soundtracks of David Lynch films and Twin Peaks, linked together and sprinkled throughout with astutely mixed audio clips from the movies. Before you say to yourself “That sounds kind of cheesy,” I simply advise you to take the couple minutes necessary to download the record and listen to either “The Voice of Love Is Crying” or “I’ll Be There in Twin Peaks”; if you are a David Lynch fan and you don’t get chills, I’ll eat my weight in garmonbozia. Production credits and videos are at the link as well. Be warned, though, that you might stand to see something spoilery if you’re not up to speed with all his movies. Twin Peaks virgins especially should proceed with caution. (Via Jason “Shaggy” Erwin.)
* Speaking of which: Fire Walk with Desaad. Thanks again, Rickey Purdin.
* I always wondered who all these people who supposedly fainted after hearing Chuck Palahniuk read the story “Guts” from his horror novel/anthology hybrid Haunted were. As it turns out, they’re a lot like FourFour’s Rich Juzwiak. Wow. It’s worth a read not just because it’s funny that the guy you’ve come to know and love through his cat videos or R&B reviews or ANTM recaps is part of a cult phenomenon, but because he also speaks to that same sense of “failure” as a fan of the extreme that I felt when I switched off Inside.
* Tor.com’s Douglas Cohen finishes off a series of posts on Robert E. Howard’s fab four sword’n’sorcery heroes with one on Bran Mak Morn.
* Stacie Ponder pays “a small tribute to that 80s horror trend where chicks wore sports jerseys as pajamas.” Jo Beth Willicious.
* Finally, John Cei Douglas sends Christmas greetings from Deadwood. (Via Matthew Perpetua.)
Thanks for the link to the Lynch mash-up.