When I was writing my last post, I felt that I needed a link to explain Nyarlathotep. I went to Wikipedia, and, as always, strayed from the path and became lost in the vast information swamp that is that website. And somehow it became relevant to our current election season. I ended up reading about Robert Bloch, a horror writer most famous for the book Psycho, on which the movie was based. Bloch began his career as a protege of H. P. Lovecraft. Bloch later worked for the Milwaukee mayoral campaign of Carl Zeidler, during which, according the Bloch's autobiography, he conceived the idea of dropping balloons from the ceiling at political rallies. The balloon drop, of course, became a inevitable feature of every major party convention of the modern era.
And so you can see (in case you ever had any doubt) that the tentacles of Cthulhu have left a lasting imprint on the American political process.
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