Thursday, October 31, 2013

Spook-a-Nanny!

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My earliest — and most vivid — Halloween memory is probably the Woody Woodpecker "Spook-a-Nanny" special from 1964. I would have...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter

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Sometime in 1976, I heard that a movie called The Sentinel was being made, and it was reputed to be a scary one. Well, yay — one of my fav...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Halloween Spirit and Derring-Do

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Say hi to Piotr. Piotr is on guard duty at Casa de Rodan, burning the pre-midnight oil. It was going on time to carve some evil pumpkins, so...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Horror of the Demon

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Always on the list of absolutely-can't-miss-or-Halloween-can't-come Halloween picture shows — right up there with It's the Gr...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Triffidus Celestus

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Come Halloween season, one of my favorite things is to run older movies that scared the pants off me when I was a kidlet. 1962's Day of...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fall Book Festival at Binding Time

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Next Saturday, October 26, Binding Time Cafe & Bookstore in Martinsville, VA, will be holding its semi-annual book festival, featuring...

Rock Castle Redux

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Strike a pose. Don't fall down go boom. Up well before dawn, back home at just about bedtime. Another annual outing to the Blue Ridg...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Damned Rodan's FIERY Vindaloo

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And here's another recipe — by request, actually. I've been fond of Indian food since I first tried Lamb Vindaloo somewhere or anoth...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Between a Book and a Hard Place

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Awaiting the green light for the panel discussion to officially begin This afternoon, I took part in an enjoyable spooky-themed panel di...

GeoWoodstack II

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GeoWoodstack II was a nice little social event around a wee campfire out at geocacher Tom "Night-Hawk" Kidd's place in Oak Rid...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

A Great Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth

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The weeping and gnashing of teeth... that could be your lot if you watch this sucker all the way through. Old man has been banging on the ...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Can't Get There From Here

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Philomath is where I'll go.... If you were — or are — a fan of REM from the 1980s you'll understand that reference. This is actua...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Nearly a Non-Starter

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It's always a treat to get together with writer Beth Massie and artist Cortney Skinner, who are two of the world's finest folks —...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Halloween Horrors in Wake County

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During the month of October, the Wake County Public Library System will be hosting several panel discussions with North Carolina authors who...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

UProoted

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UProoted. Can you see the geocache? (Click image to enlarge.) Geocaching forever takes me to some mighty neat places, and this past wee...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Damned Rodan's Ribs of Fire

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Back when I was a fry cook at Shoney's — 1978–1979, there or about — I never would have imagined I might actually derive pleasure from ...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Lyra's Lair 4

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Old Rodan signs Lyra's log. In 2007, I discovered geocaching wh...