NOVEMBER Is Coming

We are closer to the November that just passed than we are to the one that is ahead of us, but the NOVEMBER I await most eagerly is the thusly-entitled new werewolf movie from Director Rainer Sarnet. Regarding the feature: “NOVEMBER is based on Estonian novel “Rehepapp” by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last…

What became of the Tainos? Columbus Ate Them!

The Tainos were the original, indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean islands, not to be confused with Thanos, the big, purple, death-worshipping bad guy from Marvel Comics and the upcoming AVENGERS movie. Also, the Tainos were not the Caribs; although there is frequent confabulation of the two peoples (I’ve been guilty of it) they were not…

The Luminescent Werewolf

This article is not referring to a werewolf action figure that will glow in the dark after exposure to light. Not that such figures aren’t cool. Glow-in-the-dark toys are an extra special kind of magical. I don’t think I own any glow-in-the-dark werewolf figures, although I do seem to recall that they exist. I do…

Pigzilla

That is one damn big pig. And a scary-looking one. Maybe it’s because of my background, growing up not on a farm but surrounded by them, with relatives who owned farms–and hogs–that I find pigs scary. A lot of people don’t realize just how big these critters can get and how potentially dangerous they are.…

Meet Cheddar Man

First off, couldn’t they have come up with a better name for the guy than “Cheddar Man“? I know he’s named after the location where his bones were discovered and not after a hank of cheese, but seriously, people. He was the very first Briton. (The first MODERN Brit, anyway.) He deserves a cool-sounding name.…

The Devil Did Her In

Well, this is interesting. There is a grave in a cemetery in Salt Lake City. Buried therein a woman named Lilly E. Gray. She was born in 1881 and died in 1958. That would make her, let’s see, 77 years old at the time of her passing from this vale of tears. Or, if we…