Today I turned 39 (for the first time). When I was a kid, I calculated that in the year 2000 I would be 32–ancient!–and wondered if I’d still be young enough to appreciate the new millennium. Um. Heh. I’m afraid that I’m going to have to buck the trend and admit that I’m a lot…

A recent poll* found that as many as a third of “people” (I would assume this means Westerners) believe in ghosts and other spooky stuff, and nearly one-quarter have seen or otherwise “experienced” a ghost. I would have thought these percentages were a little high, except I slammed face-first into this mindset last Saturday. A…

When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight…. Although humanity is slowly emerging from the long, dark night of superstition, there are few of us…

Long ago, when I worked for a video store–I had bills to pay and some karma from a past life to work off–one of my colleagues was a guy named Pat. Pat was one of those slyly humorous slacker geeks with an encyclopedic knowledge of everything from D&D arcana to obscure comic book characters.* One…

Here’s a neat source for Halloween costume details, or just to add a little flair to a mundane jacket. These guys specialize in patches and insignias from various SF and Fantasy TV shows and movies (Alien, B5, Buffy, Firefly, and loads more). If you’ve always wanted a Resident Evil “Umbrella Corp” logo to complete that…

Eternal Image, a company which specializes in “the design, manufacturing and marketing of licensed brand image funerary products”, has acquired a license to manufacture Star Trek-branded funeral products. Since most of the other caskets they offer (and let me just say that my dreams will be haunted by the knowledge that there exists a line…

The new theme is back up, with comments fixed. Here I was feeling hurt because nobody was commenting…. Sorry sorry sorry. If you’ve made comments in the past few days, please repost ’em. :::sigh:::

We are temporarily back to our old theme, because I upgraded the blog backend at the same time I switched to the new theme, and the new theme has something wrong with the comments. How splendid! If you’ve commented on anything in the past few days, I sincerely apologize; your comments didn’t take. Please try…

Well, my family’s motto may be, “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth overdoing,” but this guy beats us all hollow. He created two dynamite Ghostbusters backpacks, and has been kind enough to post instructions. He says he managed to build both packs in under two weeks, so there’s still time before Halloween!…

Warning that UFO sightings and alien abductions are on the rise, the Earthbound dogtag promises to help the hapless abductee return safely to Earth. The aluminum tag is die-stamped with information similar to that sent by NASA on the Pioneer 10 mission. Engraved with several methods of locating Earth in the Galaxy, an alien pilot…