Friday, June 30, 2017

Threnody

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Kicking back and grooving to Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima is probably not something most of us do l...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Day I Burned Up Martinsville

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...or damn near. Getting tagged by a bunch of ornery yellow jackets yesterday brought to mind a particularly dramatic episode from my s...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Owls, Yellow Jackets, the Day of the Triffids

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So I got this weird design on my arm, see. While I was out and about last night, I saw a bright light, heard a strange voice, and that de...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Hey, Let Me Sign That Book for You

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There was a thread on Facebook the other day where authors were sharing their book-signing horror stories, and I decided this was a topic...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Beyond the Devil's Tramping Ground

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Gracious, did that cross painted on the road just cause Bridget to burst into flame? Several years ago—in July of 2010, to be precise—my...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Go Ask Alice

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Moviemaker Myron Smith, who with his brother, Mat, co-produced and directed the indie films Young Blood and Invasion of the Killer Cicada...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Forty Years Later, and It's Not a Reunion

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Photo courtesy Jim Frith The Martinsville High School Class of 1977 — it was forty freaking years ago we graduated high school, and some...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Damned Rodan's Manhattan Pancakes

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I don't know whether they're really Manhattan-style pancakes, but at one of our local restaurants, that's what they call these...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Geocaching and the Horror of It All

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Yeah, this is happening, June 10, at the Glenwood branch of the Greensboro Public Library . A little yakking about writing horror and geo...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Two Charity Events, Two Trains, One Kentucky Derby, and a Welsh Dragon

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Man, the shit is getting real at the Kentucky Derby. ...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Another Day Closer to Death, and All That

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Tuesday, another birthday came and went, a 57th revolution around the sun finished up, and the old man moved day closer to death. I thi...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Hollering, GeoPutting, and The Stokers

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Damned Rodan, Yoda Rob, Suntigres, and BigG7777, 2017 Piedmont Triad GeoPut...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

From Brewed Awakening to Galaxy Express

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Extensive road and sidewalk construction in the district, not to mention the ever-present threat of rain, likely kept at least some pat...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

"The Author Speaks" (or "How to Drive Dozens of Young Innocents into the Pit of Despair")

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The author offers words of wisdom to prospective young writers: "I hear there's a lot of money to be made servicing HVAC systems...