(*Knock* *Knock*) Housekeeping!

Instead of the usual Haiku Wednesday, I wanted to take care of 3 housekeeping items today: #1 Happy birthday to my husband, Cecil! #2 I recently watched a bizarre and disturbingly jerky version of Alice in Wonderland marinated in Eastern European-ness. This 1988 movie was just called Alice. The Netflix description is as follows: After her [...]

Haiku Wednesday: Bad Taxidermy

This post is dedicated to another website that I find both entertaining and unsettling: Crappy Taxidermy. These photos are all from this delightfully horrifying site.   Rabid Ol’ Yeller Dive bombing all of us. Get my rifle, son. ….. Disturbs me so much Texas Chainsaw Massacre… Scots and goats don’t mix. ….. The eye in [...]

Campfire Ghost Stories

I’ve recently been sucked into a show on the cable channel BIO called “Celebrity Ghost Stories“. I’m not prone to watching these types of shows, but I’m kind of addicted to this one. Based on my history, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. When I was a kid I loved spooky, macabre stories. My tween [...]

A Tale of Technology Fail

One night at school I made a grave error. I needed coffee and instead of doing the right thing, I went to the machine. I’ve encountered this type of machine before. In 1997 when I was in junior college. 14 years have passed since my novice coffee-drinking days and I should have known better. The [...]

The Creepy Company We Keep

In 2005 my husband and I received a frantic emergency call at 9:00pm from our friends Tom and Colleen. We needed to check eBay stat!   What we saw put us into such hysterics of tearful laughter that it was imperative that we have this item. The intrinsic humor value was too high to pass [...]