As I prepare the tradition of The Crow on the 30th, Donnie Darko on the 31st, and Coco on the 1st, it is appropriate to examine society's relationship with confronting inevitable death. In the anluminous void of the future in which one is not, humans find absolute terror. To imagine one's existence as ended is horrifying. Why?

Be, now. That's what now is for. You will be forgotten. All that you are will be recycled into things that bear no trace of what you once were. Memento mori.

One thing I find strange and frustrating about modal minds is their apparent need to instantiate a copy of themselves into the minds of others. They have a hunger to be recognized and remembered.

And there is a fear shared by many real living folk, to become so far gone that one might never have existed. Everyone an Ozymandias of their own non-existent legacy.

What foolish drive, to do, so that what is done will be remembered, instead of to live, because we are alive.

I guess it'd be true crime podcaster lesbians nowadays. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Can't hide murder... from lesbian mystery writers. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Shouldn't have started monologuing. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

I was supposed to keep an eye on that guy! Oh well. Moving on. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Hee hee. Doody. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

The bat came back, the very next daaaay.... #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

With Chicago cops? Yeah if they were trying to get him, they'd get him. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Nice throw! Movie thrown weapons hardly ever connect except for the ninjas! #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

This is a bit like if the Scooby-Doo gang was just Oops! All Daphnes and Velmas. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Sooper stealthy, this guy. Maybe next time bring the big bass drum from the Purdue marching band. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

That's postal carriers, not cops. Are you a real doctor? #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

That butler was super effing drunk. Buttling school teaches how to be unembarrassing when completely blitzed. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Why are they bothering with the bell when there's a gaping roundish hole in the door glass? #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

"Pure imagination"? That's Wonka's M.O.! #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Their costuming budget ran dry after one pair of clawed gloves and a face mask. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

FYI that's where they just abruptly end the conversation and hang up. No awkward sign off where both people are trying to figure out how to break off the call correctly. #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

They did the weird movie telephone thing! #Monsterdon #TheBat1959

Did one of the characters just praise the playwright for their characterizations? #Monsterdon #TheBat1959