Those of you not on Facebook may not be aware that the Catboy released a new review for The Count Jackula Show, this time on Deathbed: The Bed that Eats. Not only does it featuring an awesome cameo by West Coast horror host Count Lobo, every time you see the camera shake, that's yours truly behind the lens doing the shaking! I also figured out how ( Read more... )

I just found out that a great, wonderful, funny, angry and all-around awesome man I had the privilege and pleasure to know passed away this weekend. Wherever you are now, Jack Random, I hope you're raising hell and having a great time. Knowing he was seriously ill, I hadn't wished to intrude, but now I wish I had. You'll be missed, but you'll never ( Read more... )

The Catboy and I went up to the mountains this weekend for the fourth of July, to a tiny little town built on what was a Chinese gold mining camp. And yes, there are still miners there -- not Chinese, but we actually saw a wrinkled old prospector with a long scraggly beard, a floppy old hat, and an eyepatch who makes his living panning for gold. ( Read more... )

One of the main objections I've had to the idea of moving away from San Francisco is that I would miss seeing my friends.

But lately I've been thinking... about 90% of the time, I only communicate with my friends electronically. I don't tend to structure a lot of my evenings, but few people have time anymore, it seems, for casual hangouts, the last- ( Read more... )

UNWASTE YOUR WORLD!>/b ( Read more... )

Back in 2000, Sanrio came out with a delightful little tabby character called Nyago.

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Old (Ones) Spice!

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Hooray for landlords bearing Portuguese brandy. (Hic!)

PLEASE if you were NOT going to come by our house (per our request), don't not come by until after 9pm. Our street is apparently blocked off at the moment. Updates on our quiet evening as the evening progresses.

I've warned all my friends, if we ever enter a Lovecraftian reality, I'm the second person you should kill. (The first one is another story altogether.) It's not that I'm going to go insane and kill you. I'm the one who has to read the thing that no one should read, the sound no one should hear, and share it to you ( Read more... )