Friday, February 24, 2017

Bloody Mayhem

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In the early 1970s, from ages 10 to 15 or so — I, along with most of my young friends, was a bike-riding maniac, and by maniac I mean a...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Witch's Woods

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On the heels of my most recent geocache hides, "The Curse of Lillian Gadwick" ( GC705N3 ) and "Oren Grey" ( GC705P2 ),...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

"The Curse of Lillian Gadwick"...

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...is the name of a geocache ( GC705N3 ) I hid a few days back out on the Osprey Trail, not too far from here, and for which I created som...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Waterproof?

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Well, that was a hoot. Four Old Farts gathered early this morning for geocaching on and around the American Tobacco Trail in Durham. Bloo...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Bottoms Up

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Too busy to blog much recently, but I did want to add a personal entry since I do enjoy having some written/visual record of certain occas...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Blair Witch (2016)

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I love movies and fiction about scary things in the woods, probably because I grew up around woods, and when I was a kid, the sounds t...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Live, From Lovecraft eZine, It's....

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It was a fun yakking session on the Lovecraft eZine Video Show this evening. Host Mike Davis , along with writers Matthew Carpenter , Rick...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Coming Up on the Lovecraft eZine Podcast

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This weekend — Sunday, January 22, right about 6:00 PM EST — you will find me live on the Lovecraft eZine Video Show , along with host Mi...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Inauguration

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It is with a heavy heart I say farewell to President Obama and his family. I have admired him, disagreed with him, sometimes sworn a l...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Das Boot

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I was off work today for Martin Luther King's birthday, so Bloody Rob (retired and almost always available for geocaching, the mise...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Another Paranoid Shizophrenic

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Another Songwriters' Showcase at the Daily Grind in Martinsville, and another fun racket, courtesy of the old man and a slew of ot...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Songwriter's Showcase — Friday, January 13, 2017

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Coming up next Friday — the dreaded 13th of January — I'll be making a racket at The Daily Grind in Martinsville, VA, at their second...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Ice Blossoms

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The obligatory snow selfie. I feel impelled to watch The Shining. ...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Next Chapter, Please

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Old dude getting up close and personal with some fire Unlike some p...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

It's Time Again — Put Some Fear into Your New Year

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JUST FOR NEW YEAR'S... STARTING TODAY — 12/29/16 — and running for the next six days, you can pick up my novella, The Gods of Moab ...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Krakens, Krampuses, and Krankies

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It was a fairly low-key Christmas for the Raineys, mainly due to Mum's ongoing health limitations. But it was generally good family...