Sunday open thread: A purely coincidental resemblance

I started reading Vigilance, by Robert Jackson Bennett this morning. Bennett is an author who doesn’t stick to one genre but he does weird and awful extremely well. A horror writer who can give the reader the creeps without flinging a slaughterhouse’s-worth of liver and lights all over the place.

Plus, he understands that horror without humor is boring. And he’s not above tipping huge, cheeky winks at the world. For example, his description of techno plutocrat Hans-Joachim Kruse starts with:

A strangely ageless looking man wearing a perfectly white suit, sitting in a perfectly black chair in a perfectly white room.

And…

Kruse is probably about the same age as Hooper, but he’s subjected his body to so many radical treatments and surgeries and drugs that he no longer registers as fully human … so oddly pale and wet and gleaming and yet stiff. He’s like a mannequin stuffed into a stitched-together sleeve of human skin, with a swatch of black-haired scalp delicately placed atop the skull.

And.

Kruse blinks, unimpressed. The movement makes an unnerving click sound.

Yuck. But it doesn’t ring the tiniest bell, at all.

So, what’s everyone reading or listening to this morning?

And yes, the people who don’t wash their hands after they poop or drink from their bidets can consider this an open thread.