Some families read the Bible. Our family, we read Lovecraft

At least the kid and I do. Or will. Anyway.. First it started with the wife knitting Az a baby Cthulhu which peaked The Kid’s interest. A monster? What kind of monster, from what book, H.P. who? And so it began, the subtle and purposefully slow education of my [...]

The people in this House aint so Bright.

It is annoying enough to have Brighthouse run an incessant stream of commercials telling me how wonderful they are. I could almost live with it if I didn’t have to see the same series of commercials over and over and over again. At this point it is becoming such a headache I’m thinking [...]

The I.O.U.S.’s

Giant insects fascinate me. With the exception of the roach anytime I see a insect of unusual size I have to investigate. I think I have Az to thank for it. His spider phobia inspired me to investigate the more bloated and gigantic members of the species that live in my yard [...]

The dreaded dream sequence

The dream sequence.. that tired plot device that has long been the tool of soap opera writers and their ilk. It ranks up there with the unknown twin, the wakened coma victim and the not so miraculous return from death. It has always bothered me to spend all that time watching something, getting [...]

A literary bond that can even transcend veganism (no, really -it can!)

On our trip to the airport at the end of our North Carolina adventure we stopped for a brief moment in the little college town of Ashville hoping to find some local grub (which later become the NC bar-b-q tale told a few posts down). We found ourselves in a mixed college neighborhood with [...]

Oh, the joys of music.

Got a little bonus from work, so it was off to the used music store for another foray into the sometimes strange, occasionally weird and perhaps a bit mellow land that makes up my musical tastes.

I am listening to Feist’s Let it Die. My second album from them, a band dubbed by [...]

NASA, boldly going where it doesn't belong.

I don’t know about you, but I was a tad discouraged when I found out that NASA was abandoning the shuttle program and as far as I can tell, any attempts to put man into space for a long time to come. I guess there will still be the International Space Station, but we [...]

As if I needed another reason... Burger King nails it, though not in a good way.

This is not an exact time line, but you get the point.

First there came the french fry redux as BK tried to revamp their fry to taste more like the competition. That didn’t go so well. They followed that with apple sticks and chicken sticks. Personally, I think these are the same products [...]

A different kind of mile high club

I have been on vacation. Despite somehow having a negative number of readers (scientists are looking into it without actually looking at my blog) I thought it would be safest to not broadcast to the cyber world that I was going to take a vacation. With my luck that would be the one [...]