Sunday, November 8, 2020

Old Places, Old Friends

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“It’s in the trees! It’s coming!” Good friends and geocaching partn...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Coming in 2021: Tales From Arkham Sanitarium

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Coming from Dark Regions Press in 2021 : Tales From Arkham Sanitarium , edited by Brian M. Sammons . This one features my stor...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Halloween Horrors

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Why, yes, the Halloween season is my favorite time of year. And also, yes, 2020 is surely the most fucked-up year of my 61-plus-year ex...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Death’s Doorstep — Powerful and Poignant

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  Contemplating mortality is as natural as breathing, I suppose, since we were all blessed with the knowledge that, one day, each of us...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Spooky Place, Part II

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Halloween 1974: young Mark gets to help design the Martinsville Jaycees’ haunted castle at  The Spooky Place  and thus has the most exhilar...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

The Spooky Place, Part I

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Because I am reasonably old, I have quite a few Halloweens under my belt (although I am not that  overweight), and a long list of favor...

Consolation Prize

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Since Ms. B. and I missed out on our traditional Mabry Mill breakfast yesterday (“ Another Parkway Pilgrimage ”), I made myself a bun...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Another Parkway Pilgrimage

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For Brugger and me, the pandemic impacted but did not snuff our regular autumn  Blue Ridge Parkway   pilgrimage. We did miss it last ...
Friday, October 16, 2020

The Legend of Boggy Creek

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For about a hundred years (or maybe it’s a couple of decades, I dunno), I’ve owned one of the multitudes of public domain DVD copies o...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Season’s Greetings

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The Halloween season, of course. This year, I feel somewhat compelled to work overtime conjuring up the Halloween spirit, mainly becaus...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Birds of a Feather

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In the days of yore, geocaching-wise, there existed a series of caches called “ Bird Watching: Feathered Friends 2K Series ,” placed in hono...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Accent on Nerds

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The things you sometimes find when you’re looking for other things.... I was going through old files, searching for a copy of my dad’s o...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

The Fungus Amungus

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The world’s most dejected mushroom Fungus is fun. I’ve always fo...