Saturday, February 25, 2012

Caching Crew and the Blustery Day

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Up with the sun on this frigid and windy morning to get over to Ringgold, VA, northeast of Danville, where a group of about 25 geocachers se...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Geocaching in the Land Where Horror Dwells

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A couple of weeks ago, author-journalist John Peters was kind enough to interview me for his blog, and the article went live today. It cover...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Stellarcon 36

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Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 4, I'll be a guest at Stellarcon 36 , in High Point, NC, at the downtown Best Western Hotel (135 ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

What's That Glow?

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"Mushroom Cloud." "Nuclear Fun." "Rad (a.k.a. Glow in the Dark)." "What's That Glow?" These are ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Smith River Adventures

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Brugger and I headed up to Martinsville last night to visit Mum and spend some time kicking around the place today. I needed to do maintenan...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Monster X!

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Gamera vs. Jiger ( Gamera Tai Daimajū Jaiga, 1970) DVD Description: Released by Shout! Factory, (2010; double-billed with Gamera vs. Guiro...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Attack of the Monsters!

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Gamera vs. Guiron ( Gamera Tai Giron, 1969) DVD Description: Released by Shout! Factory, (2010; double-billed with Gamera vs. Jiger ); Jap...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Destroy All Planets!

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Gamera vs. Viras ( Gamera Tai Bairasu, 1968) DVD Description: Released by Shout! Factory, (2010; double-billed with Gamera vs. Gyaos ); Ja...

Return of the Giant Monsters

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Gamera vs. Gyaos ( Daikaiju Kuchusen: Gamera Tai Gyaos, 1967) DVD Description: Released by Shout! Factory, (2010; double-billed with Gamer...
Friday, February 3, 2012

The Criterion Collection: GODZILLA

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Godzilla, King of the Monsters ( Gojira, 1954) DVD Description: Released by Criterion (DVD and Blu-Ray); additional material: Japanese a...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Godzilla Therapy

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Had a bit of the ick yesterday, so I stayed home from work, watched Godzilla movies, and bundled up under a blanket of cats. Quite therapeut...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Faith Rock

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An almost uncannily warm January day, so I spent the early part of it geocaching in Franklinville, a little community about 25 miles south o...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Before You Find the Cache...You See The Ring

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That's your predicament when you go hunting for "The Curse of Samara Morgan" ( GC1QF2B ), over near Chapel Hill, NC. The cache...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Space Battleship Yamato

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Back in the mid 1970s, my friend Bill Gudmundson (visit Bill's Kitchen ) sent me a cassette tape with some music from Space Cruiser Yama...