The Lord of Nightmares: The Blog

I’ve put up an Official Blog for The Lord of Nightmares, my 2007 NaNoWriMo project.  You can find it here: The Lord of Nightmares Enjoy.  Subscribe.  Peace out. Support Me in the 2007 NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon(More Info Here)

Halloween Decorations

Today we finally went to the Halloween store that my friend Kent manages and picked up some minor decorations for our house.  Jennifer wanted subtle.  I wanted a full on graveyard, with skeletons popping out of the ground and ghosts flying around.  Eventually we compromised and picked up a graveyard kit and some cheesy plastic [...]

Pictures from the new house

Today is a gray, rainy day marked by a serious asthma attack this morning that kept me at home.  I’m going to spend the day relaxing and sucking on my nebulizer, but I also had to take a couple of pictures of the view from our new home.  I just happened to glance out the [...]

Nobel Prizes

I don’t know much about how the Nobel Prize committee works, and normally I don’t follow most of them, but there are at least two this year that struck me. First, I was intrigued to see that Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is significant because it’s the first time that I’ve [...]

The Terror Begins

Halloween is almost here, which means that in addition to the ghouls and zombies and mass murderers and aliens, the politicians are slowly crawling out of the woodwork to start peddling themselves as somehow "qualified" to lead the nation.  Even though the election is still over a year away, there are still plenty of reasons [...]

Soon, the fun will begin!

If you know me at all, you know that every year I participate in National Novel Writing Month.  This year, instead of just writing a novel, I’m going to increase the insanity by acting as one of the two Municipal Liaisons for the Sacramento area, which means helping to herd all the crazy participants in [...]

Musical Interlude, with Zombies

Update:  Well, apparently that’s not actually Jonathan Coulton himself in the video.  Just a guy who’s very good at lip-syncing.  That’s okay.  I still approve. One of the things I really missed about Dragon*Con this year was Dragon*Con TV, the in-house tv network that shows parody commercials and "bumps" reminiscent of those done by AdultSwim [...]

False Memories of Bad Movies

Last night I got it into my head that I wanted to watch the Hellraiser movies again.  There are eight such movies out now, with varying degrees of suckitude (the rule of thumb with such film franchises is that the higher the number of the film, the lower the quality; Nightmare on Elm Street 5 [...]

Things that Bug Me

Dove Strikes Again

I approve of the "Campaign for Real Beauty" that Dove has initiated, though I find it ironic that Dove is owned by the same company that produces Axe body spray — you know, the ones with the guy who sprays Axe on himself and is instantly surrounded by thin, sexy, overwhelmingly horny women? At any [...]

Why I’m not as weird as you might think.

Once again, reality has beat me to the punch when it comes to making up strange stories.  Last week, a man who bought a smoker at a self storage auction found that it came complete with an amputated leg (some people have all the luck).  Personally, I think this line is my favorite: The mother, [...]