Friday, March 02, 2007 Metaphysical Weirdness

The past 2 days have been a bit odd in my neighborhood. Night before last, I was outside talking to a neighbor when a girl from another street came up to us in a panic. She had lost her cat & was frantically searching for it. I decided to help her out & walked the neighborhood for about an hour calling out for this missing kitty. Then I met the girl's mom. She was just as worried. I told her that I know how she feels, having lost a cat last year. She then proceeded to tell me that she had just called some friends who have a link to the "psychic realm" and that they are envisioning the cat outside, but very near the house. At this point I figure that they don't need my help any longer since apparently Dionne Warwick & Miss Cleo are on the case. I went back into the safety of my house to tell Craig about the psychic realm incident.
Then the next day, I have landscaping contractors working in the yard. Craig's mom had forwarned me about the oddness of one of the contractors. So I finally meet him & he's even weirder than I was told. He rambles & mumbles incoherently while talking to you & also when he's alone. As he is explaining the work he is doing he tells me that he is envisioning the yard project through his "third eye." He repeated this about 4 or 5 times & then began to ramble incoherently again. Once again I just went back into the safety of my house.
Now I'm just waiting to see what other metaphysical weirdness is lurking around the corner.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 My Bloody Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day or Anti-Valentine's Day to everyone!!!!

I love you all from the bottom of my bloody heart!!

..... Camp Blood Mikey

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 A Long Time Ago...

I just rediscovered a pic of me & my mom. I was 16 and we were on our way to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. As you can see, even back then I had a thing for fake blood! Oh what good times. My mom wouldn't dream of going to see RHPS these days. It would be too "sinful."

Texas Frightmare Weekend

Last year I met Bill Moseley at the Texas Frightmare Weekend. He was ever so nice & personable. I of course was starstruck & acted like a dork, all gushing over him. Oh well, at least I got to meet him & get a hug.

Here's a pic of Bill:


I also met Betsy Palmer, Tom Savini, Irwin Keyes, and Stu Charno of F13 fame. I got them all to sign my Crystal Lake Memories book.
I then got to meet Bill Hinzman from Night Of The Living Dead. As soon as he sees a camera come up, he goes straight into character. Fantastic!!!



This year the Texas Frightmare Weekend will be held June 22-24 and will be featuring appearances by George Romero, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Kane Hodder, & Doug Bradley. I'm sure the guest list will be growing in the coming months!!!

Monday, February 05, 2007 WWJD?

I found this great shirt from Fright-Rags...
It is a must have!!!!! They have more great shirt designs on their website. Click on the pic to go there.

Creepy Sculpture

I found this sculpture pic on CNN's offbeat photos site. It's so creepy, but I'd love to have it!

"Mask II," a larger-than-life self-portrait sculpture by Australian Ron Mueck, is on display at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Mueck, a former model maker for television and film, is known for his lifelike renderings. (CNN)

Doppelganger

Thanks to Todd of Beware of the Blog for posting my doppelganger pic!!!




Be sure & check out Todd's blog. This man is hilarious!!!

Geocaching

I recently started Geocaching while out camping. It's a fun little activity where you essentially go treasure hunting with a handheld GPS. You type in the coordinates of the cache you're looking for & then hike to the location. Then it gets tricky. You have to search high & low to find the cache, which may be as small as a film canister or as large as an ammo box. They are usually camouflaged and hidden in all kinds of location like in a hollow tree stumps, under rocks, underwater, or cleverly disguised right in plain sight. So far I've found 5 caches at Cedar Hill State Park. Once you find the cache, you sign the logbook & take or leave an item. Most of the items I've found so far are small trinkets, like hotwheels, plastic bugs, coins, etc... Soon I'll be setting up a couple of my own caches. I'm going to have a generic cache with typical items and I also want to setup a couple of themed caches. One is going to be a Halloween/Friday the 13th themed cache with fun items like spider rings, glowsticks, fake blood, etc.. Then I want to setup a Star Wars themed cache with action figures, trading cards, etc...

I also got a couple of Travel Bug dog tags to place in my caches. Once someone finds them, they will transport them to another cache & log them on the Geocaching website. As these Travel Bugs move around, I will be able to track them on the Internet & read people's stories about how they found or placed them.

For more info on geocaching click on the logo above or go to www.geocaching.com

Thursday, January 11, 2007 Daingerfield

This past weekend Craig and I went to Daingerfield State Park in Daingerfield, TX. We got there after dark and there were only two other campsites filled in our area. We setup in site #13. It was pretty cold and dark when we setup. Very dark. The park is small and heavily wooded with lots of tall pine trees mixed with overgrowth. The next day we went hiking on a nice wooded trail that leads to the opposite side of the park. The lake is small and clean. The sky was clear, making for fantastic reflections on the water. Later that day we drove into historic Jefferson & meandered around downtown. It is a hodgepodge of antique stores and mom & pop shops, including a general store. Not a whole lot there, but it was interesting & quaint. The tip of Big Cypress Bayou starts here as well, which leads all the way to Caddo Lake in Uncertain, TX. That was cool because we love exploring the sloughs and bayous of Caddo Lake by boat.













The next two pics are of Craig & I at Tyler State Park the previous weekend. That weekend was COLD & RAINY!!! We still had a great time though...

Xochitl

We got a new puppy just before Xmas. She is an Italian Greyhound. We named her Xochitl (pronounced "So-cheel") which is an Aztec word for flower. Actually we chose her name from the tortilla chips that we buy. You can check them out here

Here are a few pics of Xochitl from the past 2 weekends when we took her camping...

Here's Craig & Xochitl...

And here's me & Xochitl...


And here's my Min Pin Prosciutto...

And my Chihuahua Konichiwawa doing what she loves best...

One of these days I need to post pics of our 3 cats, Zero, Spook, & Utinsel the Hutt...