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Blade Runner umbrellas and boxes of Soylent Green crackers, the Think Geek catalog features an adorable stuffed toy described as “My First Cthulhu Plush Toy.� Lockhart studies it for a moment, a hint of distaste growing on his face as he reads the blurb. “The cute factor really disturbs me,� he finally says. “Is it a coping mechanism? Is this how we stare cosmic indifference in the eye, saying, ‘Ah, now I can handle it! Because now I can picture dread, death and tentacled horror as a cute little plush toy that I can squeeze.’� Noting today’s anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Lockhart says, “It’s cathartic, seeing movies like the one we saw today. There is true terror in the world, and we can experience it vicariously through a movie, because it allows us to see death and terror and blood and all these things we are afraid of, but in a context that allows us to laugh about it afterwards and make fun of the special effects. “With something 9/11,� he goes on, “in a way a lot of us experienced that vicariously, too. I watched it on TV. And it was horrifying, though my emotional connection to the World Trade Center is watching King Kong

climb it in the 1976 movie. Snake Pliskin landed a glider on top of the World Trade Center in Escape From New York. Seeing the building destroyed—not once but over and over and over, on the news—that really did bring out the horror of that moment. Most of us don’t want to experience real horror, but we live in an age where we lack the cult of mystery that our forefathers had. We don’t have rituals and initiations and sacrifices and caves painted with fantastical creatures. We have horror movies. “We have Apollo 18.� With a jolt of noise, a siren blares from the fire department, startling the Girl Scouts, and at least one of us sitting on this bench. As the hook and ladder truck, lights flashing, pulls out onto the street and off toward whatever disaster calls it, Ross points gently at the truck. “For somebody, that’s real horror,� he says. “That’s the end of the world. For us, right here—it’s a light show. Let’s just hope it turns out to be a cat in a tree.�< Horrify David at talkpix@earthlink.net.

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Call: Ann applauding the bill’s passage through the state legislature, noting that oil-spillresponse programs “simply must be funded.� “We know that oil spills can have a devastating impact on sea lions, harbor seals, migrating birds, local endangered shorebirds and the struggling herring and leopard shark populations,� said Self. Coast damaging spills, such as those of the BP oil spill of 2010 and, locally, the Cosco Busan spill of 2007, have become an all-too-regular occurrence, adds Huffman. “[ The Gulf Coast oil spill] serves as a fresh reminder that preventing oil spills is a huge priority in California,� said Huffman. “This is a critically important bill that will increase oil spill prevention oversight and maintain solvency of the state fund that supports oil spill prevention programs.� AB 1112 will next go to Gov. Brown’s desk for consideration. —J.W.

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Larkspur’s Joan Lundstrom calls it a day Longtime Larkspur City Councilwoman Joan Lundstrom announced her resignation Wednesday after 28 years of public service. Lundstrom’s departure will take effect Oct. 15; the city can fill her seat either by appointment by the remaining council members or through an election in June 2012. The 76-year-old Lundstrom is leaving her post with a full two years left on her term; in her announcement letter she mentioned her upcoming nuptials as a reason for refocusing her activities. As Larkspur’s first female council member, Lundstrom served from 1971 to 1975 and again from 1989 to the present. Larkspur is looking at big changes to its council; with Lundstrom’s departure and Councilwoman Kathy Hartzell deciding not to seek re-election this November, Larkspur will see two new faces to its council in 2012 and—possibly three, if incumbent Larry Chu fails to secure one of the two open seats. —J.W. NT OUR EVE SUBMIT YCIFIC SUN’S A ON P Y CALENDAR! NIT (BSEFO COMMU t )PNF SP ĂśU Q D O TJ P V / . t t -JWF F "VEJUJPOT OUFFST L MV P 7 US t FB t 5I SJO t 'PPE I % t $PNFEZ 'JUOFTT t )FBMU P t "SU -FDUVSFT (SPVQT SU Q Q 4V T t ML t 5B TTFT T OUT MB WF $ & t MN 'J t Q ò t 8PSLTIP t ,JE T 4UVPST t 0VUEP

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