So, I finally have this Doktor Howl thing figured out.

[Doktor Howl]

A couple of people have commented that Doktor Howl hasn't seemed that different from TGRR.  This is true, to some degree, for two reasons.

First, it isn't easy changing your mind, let alone your personality.  It is a gradual thing, that requires constant self-examination, and involves more than a bit of backsliding.

Second, I wasn't really sure what and who Doktor Howl is.  The name comes from Doctor Howl, a deceased friend of mine who occasionally posted here sometime around 2006 or so, which he in turn, I believe, lifted from someone in the CotSG heirarchy.  The original inspiration for the new persona itself is drawn from both Doktor Sleepless (Warren Ellis), Doctor Strangelove (from the movie of the same name), and a really bad nightmare I had while I was ill ( <---mostly this).  But it has gelled over the last two weeks, during and after my trip to providence.  I know who I am now, and I know that what and who I am is far more relevant today than was the Holy Man™ that I used to be.

I am a Doktor of Horror.  This is a badly neglected field (who wants to think about it, after all), but a crucial one for the Coming Weird Times™.  While many doctors (Dr Phil, etc) try to make you feel better with drugs or bullshit 12-step programs or "interventions", I am here for a different reason.  I am here to try to figure out the Truth...What's really going on, and to make this knowledge available to anyone who might be interested.

From what I can tell so far, The Truth is more than 90% horror (about half of which is horrormirth, the other half not so much), and thus the need to study this particular facet of reality.

The new century is upon us.  The future is here.  Hide your head in the sand, or join me in facing this horrible beast with a slap-happy grin on our faces and a gleam in our monocled eyes.

The choice is yours.

Okay for now,
Dok

[Telarus]

I've actually commented to my girl how interesting your personality reincarnation experiment has been.

Good to see you getting (some of) the results you wanted.

[Triple Zero]

Wow, I think I understand it a bit better now.

So basically you're going to be the one that looks and investigates those horrible things that everybody else wants to look away from, and in fact looks away from so much that most people hardly even remember it's a direction to look in.

That really reminds me of the track "I am the Rain" by Assemblage 23:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJND_LTc3lg
The lyrics start at 1:54, or read them in the youtube info box.

You are probably going to hate it (probably not your style), but I believe the guy is somewhat honest about the stuff he sings about and not just being angsty for the attention of it. I know Suu likes it, too.

[Remington]

 
Hail to the Doktor!

I've been thinking about the letter you sent me, and how you referred to me as "Professor" Remington. I am beginning to see how that fits, and I think further thought will be needed...

[Doktor Howl]

Hail to the Doktor!

I've been thinking about the letter you sent me, and how you referred to me as "Professor" Remington. I am beginning to see how that fits, and I think further thought will be needed...

I was mistaken in that letter.  Professors are a thing of the past (no offense, Cram), a pleasant reminder of saner days.  What is needed now are Doktors.  The future is here, whether you like it or not, and we'd better start learning what it is, and what it means to us.

[Doktor Howl]

Wow, I think I understand it a bit better now.

So basically you're going to be the one that looks and investigates those horrible things that everybody else wants to look away from, and in fact looks away from so much that most people hardly even remember it's a direction to look in.

That really reminds me of the track "I am the Rain" by Assemblage 23:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJND_LTc3lg
The lyrics start at 1:54, or read them in the youtube info box.

You are probably going to hate it (probably not your style), but I believe the guy is somewhat honest about the stuff he sings about and not just being angsty for the attention of it. I know Suu likes it, too.

I'll give it a listen when I get home.

[P3nT4gR4m]

You sound just about fucking crazy enough to take this where it needs to go. I'm convinced only really bad shit can come of this and that's why I'm signing up. Say hello to Dok Vitriol - If it can be isolated, replicated, grown in a test tube, nurtured and studied then you can count on me to find an oxidising agent strong enough to reduce it to a pile of smouldering shit in no time flat. The end of the world is as nigh as I can possibly help to arrange. Any time you try to turn away or close your eyes because it's simply too horrible to bear, I'll be right there to crank your head back round or peel off your eyelids. I can take away your brain, a piece at a time until you're laughing just as maniacally me. It's all part of the service. We have to see this through.

In the name of science!

[Jenne]

It fits.  You were always the harbinger of the Horrible Tr00f^TM, after all, Rog.  Your inevitable transition from a Reverend of Awesome Verbal Rage and Might to Doktor of All Things Human and Unright is just fitting in the extreme.

Great shared insight today.

[the last yatto]

and a really bad nightmare I had while I was ill ( <---mostly this).

the name does suit you, fucking know it all old fart

[Remington]

Hail to the Doktor!

I've been thinking about the letter you sent me, and how you referred to me as "Professor" Remington. I am beginning to see how that fits, and I think further thought will be needed...

I was mistaken in that letter.  Professors are a thing of the past (no offense, Cram), a pleasant reminder of saner days.  What is needed now are Doktors.  The future is here, whether you like it or not, and we'd better start learning what it is, and what it means to us.

What, you're talking about what the general public needs? I'm not concerned about them, Roger. I was, before, but they have long since proven unworthy. Perhaps they'll get their act together and pull their asses out of the cesspool in time (increasingly unlikely), and perhaps not. I plan to make it none of my concern.

No, I shall be a Professor, and I shall wield my Science for the benefit of myself and those I deem worthwhile. The monkeys shall reap the results of their actions, and I shall reap the results of mine. The Weirdness is still looking for footholds in Canada (the sugary diet slows it down, I think), and I believe there may yet be time for plans to be laid.

[Doktor Howl]

What, you're talking about what the general public needs? I'm not concerned about them, Roger.

No, actually, I was talking about humans.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like the Horrible Truth. I like to participate in the administering of the Horrible Truth upon the masses. Therefore, I approve of this message.

[Doktor Howl]

I like the Horrible Truth. I like to participate in the administering of the Horrible Truth upon the masses. Therefore, I approve of this message.

They don't need the Horrible Truth - they wouldn't know what to do with it - but I need to tell it to them.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like the Horrible Truth. I like to participate in the administering of the Horrible Truth upon the masses. Therefore, I approve of this message.

They don't need the Horrible Truth - they wouldn't know what to do with it - but I need to tell it to them.

They don't need it, they can't hear it, and if they did it would eat their brains. That's why I like it.