Last Halloween, I sewed an Outpost 31 patch on my wintercoat and made believe that I was R.J. MacReady from John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror masterpiece The Thing. The other guy is my buddy, James, dressed as ol’ Jack Burton from Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China. We’re Big Kurt Russell fans!
This winter I began to see a trend in wintercoats. They all have similar patches to mine. Did everyone dress up like they were in The Thing this past Halloween and just leave the patch on their jackets like I did?
No! It seems someone over in the Canada Goose Wintercoat Department saw my jacket and copied my style! That or they’re big The Thing fans too. In that case, they’re cool in my book.
Matt D has been a manager, buyer and event coordinator at Forbidden Planet since 2005 or maybe it was 2006. Who can remember? We didn't even have computers back then. A native New Yorker from the borough of Queens, raised on Sunday Funnies, Monster Movies and Rock N' Roll. What better place to end up than Forbidden Planet where he can use his position to influence the city's pop culture. A responsibility he takes seriously more now than ever due to New York's consistent change for the worse. The last thing NYC needs is another cafe or bank so thank whatever it is you believe in that Forbidden Planet is here to stay. Beyond the walls of FP, Matt is a publicly recognized expert in cult and horror cinema with a focus on VHS. He is the founder of Horror Boobs a collective that books screenings and distributes weirdo films, the producer of the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS collector, the publisher of the Blood Video zine, and is regrettably responsible for resurrecting the career of schizophrenic Shot-on Video director Carl J Sukenick.
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I’m just having a technical hooded fleece made for me and will be having the same Outpost 31 patch sewn onto the left upper arm! I couldn’t find anything to sew it onto but then I got a chance for the bespoke fleece so will be most chuffed when It’s finished : )
I hope we never create such monsters…but then again, with cloning (Clowning) of DNA it would not surprise me at all if a mutation came of it.
Believe it or not!
I need one of these patches. How much? Where!?!?!
Thanks!
I’m just having a technical hooded fleece made for me and will be having the same Outpost 31 patch sewn onto the left upper arm! I couldn’t find anything to sew it onto but then I got a chance for the bespoke fleece so will be most chuffed when It’s finished : )
I hope we never create such monsters…but then again, with cloning (Clowning) of DNA it would not surprise me at all if a mutation came of it.