Sunday, June 27, 2010

Anne Elk?

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I tend to be rather fond of jerky. You know, dried salted delicious dead animal hide. There's beef jerky, turkey jerky, chicken jerky, e...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

New Interview at The Authors Speak

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Probably the most fun I've had doing an interview. Nicely conducted by Mr. Eric Mays. A bit of blathering about everything from Dark Sha...
Monday, June 21, 2010

A German and a Scholar

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Spent the better part of the day yesterday in Selma, NC, at the home of multi-tentacled Bob "Crypt of Cthulhu" Price, who has bee...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Time Passages

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Mercy; today would have been my dad's 80th birthday. He passed away in 2001, which sometimes seems ages and ages ago...and other times...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Stumpage

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Most afternoons on my drive home from the office, I listen to Allan Handelman on the local talk radio station ( WZTK, 101.1 FM ), whose sho...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey

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Back in the days of yore (1979–1980-something), I was a knocked-out, die-hard fan of Japanese animation, particularly the work of Leiji Ma...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Caching, ConCarolinas, and Critters

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Ed Schubert (editor of Orson Scott Card's Intergalatic Medicine Show ), and Old Man Rodan looking festive. It was a wicked hot, eight-ho...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

HorrorWorld's THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER Review

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I would weep if my heart were not so heavy with joy. Check it out here: HorrorWorld Reviews . Scroll just shy of halfway down the page to re...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Caching Craig Creek

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Click on pics to enlarge. A beautiful Saturday, so I made a really excellent day trip up to Craig and Montgomery Counties, VA, to do some ca...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

ConCarolinas Schedule

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ConCarolinas/DeepSouthCon is coming up in just over a week—June 4–6—at the Hilton University Place in Charlotte. Below is my schedule for ...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Star City Stashes

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Team emvirginia and Mr. Rodan Headed to Roanoke, VA, this morning to meet up with three of the world's least despicable souls — Ms...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Gam(M?)era, the Invincible!

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Gamera: The Giant Monster (1966) Released by Shout! Factory Directed by Noriaki Yuasa Starring Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi, Junichirô...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Dragons Under the Stars

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Or more like under the clouds. A big rainstorm last night kind of put the damper on the double feature, but regardless, sometimes there'...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Yongary's Got Seoul

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Yongary, Monster From the Deep ( Taekoesu Yonggary, 1967) DVD Description: Released by MGM; additional material: none Directed by Ki-duk Kim...
Monday, May 3, 2010

Another Barfday Come and Gone

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Ranger Fox and Rodan (Damned) at Hidden Falls How these blasted days keep coming around so fast boggles my hornswoggled mind, but there i...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Mr. Pyrotechnics in Outer Space

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The War in Space ( Wakusei Daisenso, 1977) DVD Description: Released by DiscoTek Media Directed by Jun Fukuda Starring Kensaku Morit...
Friday, April 23, 2010

All Monsters Go Home

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All Monsters Attack (Oru Kaiju Daishingeki, a.k.a. Godzilla's Revenge, 1969) DVD Description: Released by Classic Media; additional ...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Live-Action SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO

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Wow. I was a huge fan of the 1970s animated series Space Cruiser Yamato, better known in the U.S. as Star Blazers. In Japan, there were th...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Caching Up

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The ol' caching bug has bitten again—and hard—since the weather has been quite conducive to hiking the past few days. Did a five-miler y...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Dinner Music

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Took the day off for Good Friday—and spent it mainly working in the yard: mowing, cleaning gutters, flattening ruts, mending the fence, etc....
Monday, March 29, 2010

Semi-Literacy Roolz

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Now and again, a little rant is good for the soul. Therefore... I get a call from Nextel/Sprint, my cell phone provider. "Meester Raine...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Destroy All Monsters...Geocaching-Style

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Too busy to blog much lately; taxes, writing, working the day job, and — perhaps to the approval of the local geocaching crew — creating a n...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Florida's Outback

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The Circle-O Ranch (Click photo to enlarge.) Spent a wonderful long weekend in south central Florida at the Circle-O, a citrus ranch owned...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

DARK SHADOWS: BLOOD DANCE Recorded

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David Selby as Quentin Collins Lisa Richards as Chandres Tessier David Selby and Lisa Richards recording Dark Shadows: Blood Dance ...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

StellarCon 34

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Doing the usual guest thing at Stellarcon 34 , coming up this weekend in High Point, NC, at the Best Western High Point Hotel . Not sure of...