Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Killer Cicadas Take the Airwaves

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Thursday, July 31, at 5:30 PM , Mat and Myron Smith, along with special guests — including ye old man — from their movie, Invasion of the ...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

High Upon Dragon's Tooth

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A couple of miles into the hike, just under a mile from the summit. At the end of it all, I don't think any of us looked quite this f...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

High in Alamance County

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It's one of those days that's too nice not to go geocaching, so I went geocaching — all around Alamance County, next door, in the co...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

The Killer Cicadas Premiere — August 9, 2014

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Invasion of the Killer Cicadas , the latest bit of indie movie mayhem from the evil Smith brothers, Mat & Myron, is coming to the Rives...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Summer of Lovecraft

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I has a happy! My story, "Short Wave," has been accepted for the upcoming anthology, The Summer of Lovecraft , edited by Brian Sa...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

The Universe is Doomed...

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...and it's my fault. Well, sort of. Let me tell you about it. My kitchen garbage disposal has acted up lately, requiring the motor t...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Congregating Divine Llamas

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I spent most of this weekend over in Winston Salem at ConGregate 2014 , which turned out to be a decent little con. It was run by many long...
Friday, July 4, 2014

White Pines Tree Monkeys

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(Or "Team Old Fart Rides Again") There's almost nothing better for Independence Day than a nice geocaching trip with Ro...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

ConGregate 2014

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Next weekend — July 11–24 — I'll be a guest at ConGregate, a new speculative fiction convention held in Winston-Salem, NC, at the downt...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

"Mommy, Make the Bad People Stop."

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Old dam and waterfall on Cascade Creek in Stokes County, NC That...
Friday, June 27, 2014

DARK SHADOWS Turns 48

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Damn near as old as I. The first episode of Dark Shadows premiered on June 27, 1966 on ABC-TV. I was seven years old, and I saw that first ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Maneater of Hydra

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Now and again, I get one of those mighty cravings to catch a moldy oldie horror movie or several, and I expect it's no surprise to anyo...
Monday, June 23, 2014

The Game Changers

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M. Wayne Miller — fellow connoisseur of Thai food, rabid Godzilla fan, and artist extraordinaire — has unveiled his illustration for my stor...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Smiling at Lake Lure

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This was one of those days where I come home, pick up the nearest cat, look him right in the eye, and say, "Daddy tired." A...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Spooky Sticks and Crazy Bitches

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Several years ago, up in Martinsville, I placed a geocache called "Sticks" ( GC1WNG9 ), inspired by Karl Edward Wagner's ...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

The Geocaching Trail of Tears

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The mob descends upon the Reidsville Flash Mob event, 2014-06-07. Some of you men out there — particularly if you're my age or ...