Category: Biographical
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Scaling Back
Good morning, friends, and I hope it finds you well. That’s me in a picture taken by my daughter in front of my doctor’s office a week ago today. And why am I at my doctor’s office, you may ask? Because I’m old. Too many miles on the clock I believe is what the English…
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Inside My Cave: Dare To Enter The World Under
Everyone is welcome. If you dare, enter my cave at your own risk. I’m happy to have you for dinner. Perhaps a side dish of boiled worms and roaches are to your liking? Or not; too bad! May I offer you a beverage to quench your thirst? I have blood wine, or blood wine, or…
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Listening to Discomfort
Some music isn’t meant to comfort. It doesn’t try to distract, uplift, or resolve anything. It creates pressure and holds it there, often longer than the listener is willing to tolerate. That reaction alone is enough to make people reject it. We’re used to music doing something for us. Even when it’s dark, it usually…
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ON BEING HAUNTED
Sometimes he would for hours together walk to and fro throughout the long oak-wainscoted apartment which he generally occupied, with wild gesticulations and agitated pace, in the manner of one who has been roused to a state of unnatural excitement by some sudden and appalling intimation. -from ‘The Fortunes Of Sir Robert Ardagh’ I recently…
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A Study in Angora
When I was a young kid, I sometimes watched what I later learned were horror and sci-fi B-movies on TV shows like Chiller Theatre. I have a fond memory of one in particular that especially terrified me at the time. It was titled Plan 9 from Outer Space, and it turned out to be filmmaker…
Threads that Bind 