Joe Streckert

@joestreckert.bsky.social

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Portland writer. Erstwhile podcaster. Occasional author. Horror fan and pinball enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/joestreckert

A picture of the Bluesky timeline. Clint Smith: Unreal Blue sky nice ghost: Breaking: Paddington just ate a bottle of pills Kevin M. Kruse: HOLY SHIT
A Dino-Riders toy from the 1980s. A man is riding a deinonychus.
A close up of a support statue for Portland’s Skidmore Fountain. A woman in classical clothes holds the basin of the fountain above her shoulders.
The title screen of an imagined episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called “Space Polycule LARP Night.”
A fuzzy orange cat looking out a window.
A promotional image for the film The Guest, which shows Dan Stevens with an unsettling neutral facial expression walking toward the camera against a solid red background while holding a pistol in one hand.
An image that appears likr the burger king logo. The inside of the burger says "hell is empty" below it says "and all the devils are here.
Zephram Cochrane shaking hands with a Vulcan in Star Trek: First Contact
The opening text crawl of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
A very fluffy orange cat.
Charcuterie
Bruce Banner morphing into the hulk with the text "And it is that gamma ray infusion which, at times of stress, transforms him into the raging, rampaging Hulk! A creature whose strength increases geometrically as his awesome anger grows!"
The main cast of Angel drenched in rain at the end of the final episode "Not Fade Away."
The cover of Nintendo Power featuring Simon Belmont holding Dracula’s severed head.
A spork, but with three tines coming off of the side of the utensil instead of the center.
A middle-aged white dude dressed as a mad scientist for Halloween with a blood-splattered lab coat, goggles, and doctor's reflector. He's holding a toy saw and drill, with a stethoscope over his shoulder. This picture was obviously taken in his living room before a Halloween party, not in some shadowy gothic tower where he's been doing forbidden and dangerous science.
Three ominous-looking trick-or-treaters in profile. One dressed as a clown, another, as a witch, a third as a skeleton. They are clearly scary horror movie children.
A woman sits up against a white marble wall, her face a mask of sadness and pain. She holds up her hands before her. They are covered in blood.
A man in a leather gimp mask and motorcycle jacket menacingly contemplates a drawn knife.
A man in a suit kneels down to investigate a bloody chainsaw. The room is obviously the scene of a murder, with blood splatters on the walls and floor.
A first-person view of a card game. The player holds a hand of four cards. The room is dark and shrouded in shadow. Their single opponent is only visible as a pair of eyes across the table. A scale is to the player's left, a rack of various tools to their right.
A knight surrounded by insect-like demons blasts away at the infernal horde with a pair of blazing pistols.
The princess from Slay the Princess. She's an ordinary princess. Looks like how most people would imagine a princess to look. Nothing weird here. It's fine.
The cover of Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
A still from Return of the King. Frodo is awakening at Rivendell after his ordeal in Mordor. Gandalf is sitting near his bed. The text reads "You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten o'clock in the morning, on October the twenty fourth, if you want to know."
Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth
The cover of The Return by Rachel Harrison
Jeffrey Combs in From Beyond. He's shirtless with a shaved head and has some weird alien blood/gunk all over him. He's looking right at the camera. Right at you. Jeffrey Combs is coming for you! And you just might be into it.
A nurse in an old-fashioned nursing uniform holds a very large syringe, injecting the enormous needle into the eye of a patient wrapped entirely in bandages a la a mummy.
A still from Michael Mann's Manhunter. A morose looking man sits in a dark room with a 1980s style telephone. He is near a window, consumed by shadows. A modernist building looms outside. There's a skyscraper in the distance, the top of which glows blue in the black night.
An astronaut in a space suit confronts and ominous looking sphere inside of a large, curved chamber in Event Horizon. All of the surfaces are adorned with edges or spikes, ready to impale an unsuspecting spacefarer at any moment.
A still from the video game Blasphemous. One of the bosses is a twisted, monstrous statue reminiscent of Michelangelo’s Pieta.
A woman reclines in a messy art studio, sipping a glass of wine. A gothic leaded window looms behind her, and music plays from an old radio.
The cover of Fever House by Keith Rosson.
Sweeney Todd holds his razor aloft while Mrs. Lovett looks on in the background. He is full of determination and a thirst for vengeance. She's thinking about how much meat they're going to have. The world is full of possibilities, and also murder/cannibalism.
A dead woman with metal clamps on her neck and dramatic scars on here body gets zapped by purple lasers and Frankenstein'd back to life.
A ragged man is silhouetted against the sky. None of his features are discernable. He holds a pair of gardening shears overhead, ready to strike whoever is beneath him.
The original cover of Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe. A bunny that looks like Dracula snuggles atop a sleepy dog, and a suspicious cat watches them from behind.
A woman and a man, both looking like the kind of cute folks who would star in a rom-com, look down at the camera while covered in blood. They are adorable! And exhausted. Probably from fighting off a slasher the whole time after their meet cute.
A blond woman in a white nightgown raises a sharp object to stab a giant pile of misshapen flesh and tentacles coming toward her.
The cover of Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado. The cover of the book features several bats, which is weird because Carmilla doesn't turn into a bat. That's a Dracula thing. Carmilla transforms into a black cat. There should be a cat on the cover! What the hell, Lantenrfish Press? This edition is really good, though.
A woman approaches a glowing green tube. The cylindrical artifact emanates an eerie light, and is surrounded by candles as if it's some kind of sacred or unholy artifact.
A two-page spread from A Guest in the House by Emily Carrol. A knight confronts a gigantic dragon in a cavern. Text reads: "I would find them, snug inside damp caverns, panting, pacing. When I sliced through them they would realize their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels... " here the knight cuts into the dragon's belly, letting loose a shower and treasure and blood. Text continues: "...and I beneath..."
An bearded man holds a woman over a log, ready to cut her head off with an axe. In the distance an onlooker says "Dear God!" Narration text reads: "That was the day I first saw her face, first looked into her eyes, first heard her name... Jenifer."
An illustration by Bernie Wrightson for Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. The Monster holds Victor Frankenstein up by his jacket, threatening him. The title of the illustration is "I Shall Be With You on Your Wedding Night," and if you've read the novel you know exactly what that means. Behind Victor and the Monster the laboratory is a riot of glass bottles, equipment, wires, and tubes. There is detail in every frame, and and somehow the entire story of the novel exists in this image.
A woman in a slip with a head aflame walks purposely through a door and down a hallway.
Vincent Price as a wizard leaning over and looking at a Raven in The Raven from 1963.
The first edition cover of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. An ominous mansion peeks out of overgrown foliage against a dark background.
A marketing email that begins with “Hi Joseph, we can’t believe the end of [current year] is already around the corner!”
A turkey porchetta next to smoked legs and thighs.
A small child photographed from the back watching Disney’s Robin Hood.
A screenshot of a 2021 tweet by @Joestreckert. It shows the cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal labeled "THE CRUSHING DESPAIR OF EVERYTHING FROM THE PAST YEAR" and a much smaller excavator is labeled "YOU, DOING YOUR BEST."
The final standings of Learned League Rundle A Park which shows StreckertJ in third place despite having a TCA of only 103.
A statue of Paul Bunyan with a Multnomah County ballot drop-off site next to him.
Dracula from Castlevania. He looks very intense and sexy. He's looking right at you. His skin is very pale and his eyes are very red. The moon looms large in the background. He's extending a single clawed hand to you, and it's surrounded by pictures of raccoons. Like, rectangular pictures of raccoons that someone obviously pasted into the picture using MS Paint. It's not even Photoshop. It's just cut-and-pasted raccoon pictures. Anyway, imagine if Dracula very evilly and sexily extended a hand, unleashed his power upon you, and that dark power of the night took the form of raccoons.
The subject lines of two NYTimes emails. One reads "Breaking news: White House offers to pay immigrants who deport themselves." The other reads "Trump administration updates: Mexico, foreign movie tarrifs, Alcatraz, and more."
The Normandy from Mass Effect
Spock back from the dead in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He is wearing a white robe and looks serene and vaguely otherworldly. The crew of the Enterprise looks on with a mix of astonishment and joy.
A scene from Star Trek: First Contact, where humans and Vulcans meet for the first time.