Saturday, August 30, 2008

Eleven...

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...geocaches found between 0600 and 0900 this morning. Pretty good haul; I waded through bogs, briers, poison plants, and giant spiders to ...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Deadline Time Again...

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So it'll be a working holiday weekend. Not that I mind. It's another goooood project. For completely different reasons, I have to ge...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Occult Detective Tackles OTHER GODS...

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...with devastating consequences. Occult Detective Reviews Other Gods I've been trashed, and I've been trashed, but this time...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Matt Cardin's Daemonyx

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A couple of months back at Mo*Con, I picked up from Matt Cardin a five-track CD sampler from his Daemonyx: Curse of the Daimon album. I...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Fairystone Rocks!

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One of the neatest things about geocaching is that it takes Mrs Death and me to all kinds of places that we would otherwise never visit. In ...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Island of Terror

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Busy weekend here; mostly domestic chores, vehicle maintenance, a spot of creative work. I tell you, though, tonight I found myself seized ...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

KEEPERS OF THE DEAD

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Bob Freeman's Keepers of the Dead continues the saga of Cairnwood Manor and its resident population of werewolves, vampires, zombies,...
Friday, August 8, 2008

OTHER GODS Scares BQueen Out of Her Bonnet

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HorrorWatch's BQueen has just given Other Gods the royal review treatment. The HorrorWatch review site isn't working properly at t...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Sometimes Geocaching Yields Unexpected Horrors

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When I’m out geocaching, I’m very careful about where I put my hands. I’ve encountered all kinds of nasties out in the wild, black widow ...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sometimes Geocaching Yields Unexpected Fruits

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Today, on my way back to Greensboro from Virginia, I stopped off at a few geocaches, and—lo and behold—out from one of them popped one of...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Bummed

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Our next-door neighbors of the past four years, Paul and Jamie, left today to move out west, so a big old wave of depression has fallen upon...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Yellowjacket Hell

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That was our front porch for the past couple of weeks. We've had this old chair sitting out there, which should have been dumped years a...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Back in the Shadows Again

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Dark Shadows, that is. I've written an audio drama script for Big Finish Productions (UK), tentatively titled Dark Shadows: Path of Fat...
Friday, July 25, 2008

If You Know About It, It Knows About You...

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Want an autographed copy of the trade paperback edition of my new collection, Other Gods, from Dark Regions—for free? "If you know a...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Wampus Cat

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A couple of weeks back, I made mention of the Wampus Cat ( Grendel? Wampus Cat? Larry Talbot? ). Here's the answer: The Wampus Cat is...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hell Is Just Ahead

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In my near-daily hunt for geocaches, I'm continually discovering new places in and around Greensboro. There are still miles and miles ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A Dark Regions Special

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I usually try to avoid a lot of noise and bluster and keep salesmanship fairly low-key around here. However, YOU GOTTA GO GET THIS PACKAGE ...
Monday, July 14, 2008

It Ain't Just Bastille Day...

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...It's also Mrs Death's birthday. Happy birfday, Mrs Death! (For anyone who isn't aware, Mrs Death is the wife.) She sure is ...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Happiness Is...

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1,200 tracks by Akira Ifukube ( Godzilla, kith and kin) on your iPod. A dirty martini with habanero pepper–stuffed olives. A contract f...
Monday, July 7, 2008

P.S. Chicago

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Oh, yeah. Some things have changed in Chicago. Used to be that if you stopped your car at a stoplight, somebody would come out, clean your w...
Sunday, July 6, 2008

RDU to ORD and Back

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Chicago is still there, all right. I saw it with my own eyes. Lived there back in the 80s and have visited many times since. In all my days,...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

-30-

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Finished the big ol' project I've had my face buried in for several weeks. Turned it in, along with a long synopsis, a short synopsi...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

VMNH Geocaching Day

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 Although to many it might seem very near invisible, one of Martinsville, VA's most attractive and socio-economically progressive ins...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Grendel? Wampus Cat? Larry Talbot?

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After going great guns on the latest writing project for several days, I took a break yesterday and hit the trail to grab a couple of geocac...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Dark Deadlines

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Nothing like a tight deadline to get the writing process moving fast and hot. Can't say I'm too fond of having to write at such a pa...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Porcupine Sex

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It's a pity that certain communiques didn't come up prior to the editors' panel at Mo*Con this weekend. Porcupine Sex
Monday, June 16, 2008

Mo News Is Good News

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Ye Olde Mo*Con III Report... With the string of snafus getting longer and nastier at the Indianapolis airport yesterday afternoon, I wasn...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Don D'Ammassa: "OTHER GODS" Not Entirely Full of Bilgewater

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Well, the above can be inferred, given Don D'Ammassa's new review of Other Gods at his Critical Mass Web site. D'Ammassa writes...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Hot Parking and Grabbing

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Yeah, so it didn't occur to me until some time after logging a number of geocaches last night that my phrasing might not have been the w...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

Help! Jack Haringa Must Die!

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Lots of things happening/coming out all of a sudden. Help , the anthology to benefit Preditors & Editors in the lawsuit against them by...
Monday, May 26, 2008

CEMETERY DANCE #59 Is Loose

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Cemetery Dance #59 is finally on its way, featuring my story, "The Gaki." The issue's cover art looks mighty fun. Good com...
Friday, May 23, 2008

There's Nothing Obsessive-Compulsive About It At All

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It’s good to have wacky neighbors. Last night about 10:00 PM , my friend Paul calls up and asks if I want to go geocaching. I say yeah, so w...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

So Now I Can Fit Into My Oldest Jeans...

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...without busting them at the seams. (The fact that most of the seams are already busted does not enter into this, thank you very much.) Al...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Where the Sun Don't Shine

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You haven't seen Greensboro, the town where I live, until you've seen it from underground. Not that there's a lot to see in the ...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Orpheus With a Heart

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Though rife with many of the trappings of the classic horror tale, Kim Paffenroth's novelette, Orpheus and the Pearl (Magus Press, 2008...
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Shorter of Breath and One Day Closer to Death

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Friday was my 49th birthday, but I'm actually breathing pretty well (I seem to have successfully stopped smoking, but for a handful of c...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

FTF! TN, LN, SL. TFTC!*

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Damn. I'm bone tired from the past few weeks of regular physical exertion. Last year at this time, when I was this tired, it was usually...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Winter Frights

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I announced while back that David Montoya had accepted my story, "Sarcophagus," for Magus Press's Winter Frights anthology, b...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Catching Up

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There's no time like your wife being in surgery to catch up on some reading. No, nothing real major this time. Peg's eyelids were...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Cache In, Trash Out

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Yesterday morning, I headed out to the Peninsula Trailhead, not far up the road, and joined with about 30 other geocachers for a cache-in,...
Friday, April 18, 2008

It's Better to Forgive, Right?

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Last night, I came about as close to doing something I'd regret as I ever have. Peg and I were heading down the highway near our house, ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Shellfish Behavior

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A royalty check arrived from Wildside Books today. How handy, as Mrs. Death and I went out to a nice gathering of geocachers at J. Butler...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

AFK

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It's been one of those weeks, so I've been fairly scarce at the usual online haunts. Actually, getting away from the computer for s...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

The Deluge

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Next person who says we're still in the middle of a drought, I'm going to swat them in the head. If we're still short of water, ...