Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Here is Wisdom.

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Found my 888th cache yesterday. Let him that hath understanding count the number, for it is the number of the wildebeest.
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Baby, You Can Drive My Car — Redux

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Got up this morning and headed to Ferrum, VA, where I went to college in the late 70s. There's a beautiful hiking trail through the moun...
Friday, December 26, 2008

The Most Wonderful

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For me, the best thing in the world is spending quality time with my family, and the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays are our traditional gat...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Kicking It Off

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Yesterday was the last full day at the office till next Monday, so as far as I'm concerned, the holidays are hereby kicked off. Christma...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Red Skies at Morning

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The only good thing about having to get up at the ass-crack of dawn to go to work is seeing something like this when I head out the door. ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

QUANTUM OF SOLACE Soundtrack Review Posted...

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 ...on my 007 Soundtrack Revue Web site. Here: JB22Quantum
Saturday, December 13, 2008

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

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I first saw it rising above the trees at 5:35 PM from U.S. 68, right around Stokesdale, NC. Big old moon. Huge. Half of it blood red, the o...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

Out Yonder

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You never know what you're going to find when you're out on the trail geocaching. This evening, I got together with a group of about...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

"Iron Heart"...

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...is the title of my latest short tale, and it's finished. Finally. Done by deadline. Now I've got two more tales to write, with tw...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Caching Turkeys

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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year. I've been fortunate enough to spend most of my Thanksgivings with family, and in my...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Count Gore DeVol's OTHER GODS Review

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Awright. Other Gods has scared the breakfast cereal out of another one. As you may know, Count Gore DeVol, perhaps my all-time favorite TV h...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Joe, the Spooky Place, and Route 666

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I'm seriously bummed this weekend because my friend Joe is in the hospital. By all accounts, it's not a life-threatening thing, but ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Such Deviltry

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After an earlier false alarm, I understand the latest issue of Cemetery Dance (#59), which contains my story, "The Gaki," is now ...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

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I went into Quantum of Solace not quite sure what to expect. I have purposefully avoided reading reviews because, particularly when it come...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

DARK SHADOWS: THE PATH OF FATE

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Dark Shadows: The Path of Fate , the audio drama I wrote for Big Finish , is now available for pre-order. The very sharp cover art is by ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

DEAD BUT DREAMING...Again

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Back in 2002, the short-lived publisher, DarkTales, released a nice little anthology of Cthulhu Mythos tales titled Dead But Dreaming, edi...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

Cedarock

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Cedarock is a fairly extensive park south of Burlington, NC, with several miles of hiking and biking trails and about forty geocaches. Mrs D...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Wacko

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Particularly here in North Carolina, there have been some really ugly campaigns during this past election. I've never been so glad for t...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

"Demon Jar" at Horror World

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My short tale, "Demon Jar," is the featured story at Horror World for the month of November. It's free. It's scary. It...
Friday, October 31, 2008

If Every Day Could Be Halloween....

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...I'd make it a lot like today. It's gorgeous outside. Comfortable, sunny, and loaded with fall colors. I worked only half a day — ...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

THE SOUND OF HORROR

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Back in the early 70s, I remember watching on TV a 1964 Spanish monster flick called The Sound of Horror and thinking it just might be th...

Crudbuster

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Indeed I did stay home today instead of venturing to ZombieCon. Hate to have missed it, but I think it was for the best. Took it easy during...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Walking Zombie

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I'm supposed to head over to ZombieCon in Chapel Hill in the morning, but I've been a bit under the weather this week, and I keep yo...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Book Em, Damned-Ro

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This past weekend, Mrs Death and I drove up to Waynesboro, VA, for Book Em, an event sponsored by the Waynesboro Police Department to promo...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

R.I.P. Harry Fassl

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I just found out that a good old friend has passed away — Harry Fassl, who provided countless photo-illustrations for Deathrealm as well as...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Dichotomy

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One of the hallmarks of my fiction, so I've been told by more than one critical reader, is its graphic depiction of beauty, frequently i...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

Of Buckwheat, Catalpas, and Geocaches

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Mrs Death and I, along with our friends, the Albaneses (a.k.a. Team Alb), said the hell with economic crises, hit the road a good hour befor...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Naught for Norton

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Customer service is just about a thing of the past, but the other night, I think I discovered the hole at rock-bottom. Back in the old days ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Mr. Dickie Is Too Kind

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In Ron Dickie's review of Other Gods in the October edition of HorrorWorld , he remarks that "There is nothing quite like ope...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

The New Christy Minstrels and Gimme a "K"

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The New Christy Minstrels (L–R): Eddie Boggs, Buffalo Bill Boycott, Becky Jo Benson, Randy Sparks, Jackie Miller Davidson, Dolan Ellis,...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS

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As I mentioned a wee while back, Toho's 1966 WWE extravaganza, War of the Gargantuas, is now available domestically on DVD, paired wit...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

What Mystery!

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I just watched Goldfinger for about the hundredth time because, with Quantum of Solace coming up in the not-to-distant future, I got a 007...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Torture

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There are those who believe that there is never justification for torture. I'm not so sure. In fact, I would not be deeply bothered if c...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Smashing

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The compulsion to watch giant monsters trample Japan is, in my life, a chronic malady that I've long since learned to live with. From th...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A Witness to One of Nature's Monumental Struggles...

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It seemed like just the kind of afternoon to go on a three-mile hike on the Reedy Fork Trail when I got off of work, so that's what I di...
Monday, September 1, 2008

Nostalgia

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Back in the good old dark ages of my youth (the orange and green plaid 70s), there was a sign by the nearby lake that said "No Dumping....
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 ...