Attention to Detail
Irradiated by Stingray
You’d be hard pressed to be on the internet for more than five minutes without running into a H.P. Lovecraft trope or meme. From Hello Cthulhu to the complete works of the man himself, you can’t throw a digital rock without it bouncing off an eldritch horror. Naturally, in the delightfully capitalistic world, this leads to merchandising.
Reminded recently here and more directly of the HPLHS here, I realized I was woefully light on H.P. Fanboi brand equipment and product, and went to remedy the situation. An apparently non-form-generated thank you email arrived when I placed my order, which struck me as a nice touch and then promptly was dismissed as I went about my business. Then the package showed up.
Every other shop on the internet is perfectly content to just set the printer to “default and cheap as possible” when printing invoices/receipts. Not so the good folks at the HPLHS. Check this bad boy out:
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I know this is geeking out over something damn trivial, but the fact that they went to the effort to even make their invoice a period-appropriate love note to Lovecraft and his fans is just flat awesome. I’m tempted to ask if any of the typewriter afficionados in our audience can tell me if the font is period-correct, but honestly who cares? It’s already several orders of magnitude cooler than it needed to be.
Well done, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Damn well done indeed!
March 25th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
… Elderthong?
March 25th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
That is chock full of awesome.
March 25th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Oh my God I’m going to buy something from them just to get a receipt.
March 25th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
You DO realize your readers are now going to demand that a picture be posted of you modeling said “ElderThong”….
March 25th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Well… I dunno, Stingray. I mean, it’s pretty cool, but just the sight of the receipt didn’t send me spiraling into screaming madness; they’re gonna have to work harder than that. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure that the sight of you modelling an “ElderThong” would in fact send me gibbering into the eternal darkness, after gouging my own eyes out, so I guess their products have it spot on!
March 25th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
i assume you’ve seen their production of Call of Cthulhu, correct?
March 25th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
I haven’t, actually. They’ve always occupied a spot of spiritual support in my mind, an internet “Right on, brother!” until this purchase. I was idly curious about it, but I admit my prejudice tends to “Oh. So, The Internet got together and made a movie? That’ll be awesome, I’m sure.” Given the receipt, I’m looking a bit more favorably at it but still thanks to simply the inertia of the sheer volume of bloody awful internet productions kinda dubious. Is it any good?
March 25th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
It’s a silent. It’s brilliant.
March 26th, 2011 at 1:08 am
Yep. Star Wreck was goofy. This one is brilliant.
March 26th, 2011 at 5:49 am
My best friend up in Seattle has a receipt from these guys magnetted on the fridge where he lives. They do have a lovely attention to detail.
March 26th, 2011 at 11:05 am
The third point confirms a line (except in R’lyeh). Copy ordered.
March 26th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Does the Elderthong come with eldritch Depends?
JD
March 27th, 2011 at 7:08 am
like others have said: it’s excellent. both the SO and i were floored at how *good* it really was.
March 28th, 2011 at 1:07 am
Don’t forget to order your cuddly Cthulhu plushie: http://www.amazon.com/Toy-Vault-12-Cthulhu-Plush/dp/B0006IEX7C