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Continue reading →: A Lot of Ground to Cover
Panic Fest is in the rear view and everything else is up ahead, so it’s been a week or so of catching up around here. There’s been a lot to catch up to, as well, as a lot has been going on kind of while I wasn’t looking. For starters, Guignol…
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Continue reading →: That’s a Wrap
Once again, Panic Fest has come and gone. Well, not actually. As I write this, it’s still going on for two more nights of extended programming, but I’ve made it out for the last time, and not just because temperatures are supposed to get to literally below zero over the…
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Continue reading →: For the Books
I published my customary year end wrap-up back at the end of December, but in it I realize that I perhaps gave somewhat short shrift to my publishing accomplishments for the year, so I decided that a more in-depth post on the subject was in order. Of course, the biggest…
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Continue reading →: The Year in Review: 2018
This has been a rough year in the Grey demesne. We started 2018 on a raft of health problems that we rode well into the middle of the year. And even once they were (mostly) resolved–honestly, do health problems ever really get completely resolved?–we spent the rest of the year…
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Continue reading →: Sweets to the Sweet
Christmas is behind us now, for those who celebrate, though the New Year is still a few days away and we’re now locked in the holiday limbo period between the two. For myself, I’m playing catch-up around the house and trying to fight off a (hopefully minor) illness in time…
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Continue reading →: “On the contrary, you’ve arrived just in time.”
Putting this here because I’m going to get asked more than once, and I need a place to point people back to for the next four months or so. The trailer for the new Hellboy movie just dropped and, yeah, it’s scored to “Mony Mony,” which, as I said on…
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Continue reading →: “If you wish to see strange things I have the power to show them to you.” – The Magician (1926)
I had actually never heard of The Magician prior to seeing a .gif of it on Rhett Hammersmith’s Tumblr. The .gif—a sculpture of a devilish faun collapsing onto actress Alice Terry—was enough to get me to track down the film. Long considered lost, The Magician didn’t get any kind of…
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Continue reading →: Of Darkness, and the Princes Thereof
So, last night I sat on couches detailed like the spacesuits from Planet of the Vampires and watched three John Carpenter movies that I have seen roughly 1,000 times each (and, in at least one case, been quoted in a book about) with a bunch of other movie nerds at the…
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Continue reading →: Advent
It’s the first day of December, which means that I’ve finally started reading Matthew M. Bartlett’s Of Doomful Portent, illustrated by Yves Tourigny, which has been sitting on my shelf, taunting me for some time now. The plan is to do it up like a proper advent calendar and read one…
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Continue reading →: Now Is That Gratitude?
Thanksgiving is a problematic holiday for all sorts of reasons, but just as the agnostic in me can enjoy Christmas or any other non-secular holiday (with its own freight of both Christian and pre-Christian baggage), I can also still take a day to spend time with the people I love…








