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La Doncella

500 year old Incan mummy of a 15 year old girl, found preserved in Peru. Even though I’m a huge fan of horror movies and blood and gore in films, I generally don’t have much of an interest in seeing actual photos of dead people. I also find the displaying …

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RIP Charles

I found Charles dead this morning. I am absolutely devastated. He was my very good friend and we spent a lot of time together. His death was sudden and unexpected and I’m kind of numb right now. I’m going to bury him in the backyard in his turtle house, because when …

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The situation right now

In the book The Tommyknockers, the main character is a woman who finds an alien spacecraft buried in her back yard. The spirits or ghosts or leftover alien energy that inhabited the long dead craft entered the woman and began influencing her behavior. She started building highly advanced machines and acting erratically. One of …

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Zombies, cannibalism and instincts

So I watched about ten minutes of an episode of CSI Miami the other night. It was right at the beginning. This dude had been stabbed and left in an empty house. It did this fast forward display of his body decomposing over a period of four days. That was interesting. …

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Michael Jackson and Hunter Thompson

I have, for the most part, maintained that I believe Michael Jackson was innocent when it came to whether or not he molested those kids. Or any other kids really. I’ve had moments of doubt, but honestly, I really just don’t believe it. It’s not even a case where I …

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George

As a kid I listened to stand up comedy more than I listened to music. At first it was my parents albums. For the younger folks out there, albums were big black vinyl disks with microscopic grooves in them that made sound when you dropped a needle into the groove …

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Zombies

With everyone on the internet talking to much about Robocop lately (seriously, what’s up with that people?) I can’t help but think about other things I watched as a kid that affected me well into adulthood. It’s pretty clear that, at least in my case, the entertainment that I was …

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The Death of Carl

yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. It’s weird because I’ve had a lot of really hard days in my life. Hell, I’ve had a lot of really hard months… years… decades… Shit, pretty much the majority of the 90s were insanely difficult. But yesterday was really …

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Bad Weirdness on the Road

yesterday when I was driving Bear and myself out to Bear’s apartment, we passed a police road block. Someone had fallen ill and was laying in the road. The medics were frantically trying to revive him, pumping on his chest. There were people around him screaming and sobbing. I believe …