Month: March 2022

Damn you, shipping and handling! I could get all four of the Hammer classics-inspired rubber ducks from Tubbz right now for a song. If not for the shipping and handling. Actually, that should probably be shipping-and-handling. Connected by hyphens. Because the two are really one-and-the-same now. (The same way one-and-the-same is connected by hyphens; the…

From the Journal of Maribelle Tate: Thank you, God. It looks like Adam’s going to make it. Bit of an understatement there, I guess. Truth is, I can’t believe how fast he’s recovering. It’s only been two days and he’s almost back to normal. Normal for him, I mean. Judith says it’s obvious the Natarajans…

Is this just a Fiji Mermaid? If you aren’t sure what that is, it’s a gaffe created by sewing the upper torso of a monkey to the lower half of a fish. They are works of taxidermy art and can be quite convincing. Is the “mermaid mummy” being worshipped at the Enjuin temple in the…

Quick post to mention we’ve created a Discord server for Vampires.com and Werewolves.com. It will be useful in building the community for a special Vampires.com vs Werewolves.com project. It will exist in the Cardano (ADA) blockchain. We are designing our own NFTs and utility. The Discord is brand new, so you could be the first…

Legend says that the Sessho-seki Stone, aka the “Killing Stone”, contained the corpse and imprisoned the spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae, a beautiful woman and would-be assassin who is really a demon, one more commonly taking the form of a nine-tailed fox. The stone, located in a hot springs area near the Tochigi prefecture near Tokyo, Japan,…

His cellphone rang. With his one hand, Amman picked it up. “Hello, Mr. Hamm,” Amman said. The electronic larynx attached to his trachea crackled with a burst of static. Amman hated the way it made him sound like a robot. But then he considered himself fortunate that the machine made speech possible at all. “I…

“I think he’d rather die than go back in a cage, anyway,” Maribelle said. “I concur.” “Could we call a lawyer, maybe? Get some kind of injunction?” “First we would have to get Adam declared a contender for basic Human rights,” Judith said. “That debate has been going on for a while, of course, but…

The photo accompanying this post is from the short-lived 80s television series WEREWOLF. The villain of the show, Janos Skorzeny, was replaced later on due to star Chuck Connors’ declining health and his contractual demands, but the replacement villain, Nicholas Remy, never measured up to Skorzeny. A grizzled one-eyed pirate werewolf who exulted in his…

Don’t go into this one cold. Read up on it first. This article here is a good place to start. I went through about a third of NOVEMBER hating it. I thought it was stupid. It isn’t. It’s absurd. But absurd in the literary sense. “Inaccessible” would be a better term for it. An Estonian…

This past weekend I caught DEATH ON THE NILE in the theater. Good movie. I enjoyed it considerably more than the person with whom I attended the showing, as the latter is an Agatha Christie purist and the movie takes certain liberties with its portrayal of lead character Hercule Poirot. Not being so familiar with…