It’s been a relative while but today I finally went to a new library–the Batavia branch of Clermont Public.

I only checked out one book and a book on CD. There were plenty of books that I would have picked if I hadn’t read them before. One of the many bad things about getting old is exhausting all the easily available published material on subjects you’re interested in.

Deep down, I think whenever hard-core readers go into a new bookstore or library, they want to reach into the shelves and find the magical book that will transform their lives. The realization that it ain’t happening weighs heavier with age.

 

I finished uploading two pieces from the Evil Dog video:

A Story Without Verbs

Serial Killers

“A Story Without Verbs” is by far the best video I’ve uploaded so far (which might not be saying too much). It’s read by author F. Keith Wahle and, while it has some visual distortion, it’s better than anything else I’ve done.

“Serial Killers” could have been a masterpiece but it was sunk by my bad equipment and bad editing. Initially it was a video of Marcus Fletcher and the Fletchtones (James Kelley, Josh Kenard, Steve Martin, and Evil Dog’s own Jeff Wilson) at “Terri Ford and Friends” in downtown Cincinnati.

The lighting was very low and the raw video was too dark for details. I threw all the violent footage I could dig up into the edited version, which could have been much better thought out. I like the song but if I had worked with it differently, I would have a much smoother piece.

Coming next: more cartoons to come and maybe clips from my porno career.

I think I tracked down the scientific name of my centipedes–Scolopocryptops sexspinosus. Mine are surprisingly mild-mannered compared to other people’s experiences.

I haven’t tracked down my millipedes yet but I’m looking.

What do Helen Keller, Obama, G.W.Bush, Spiderman, Kid Rock, and Pat Robertson have in common?

They’re all Satanists!

Or the person who posted this is nuts. You make the call.

It took over six hours to upload from my home computer but here’s the long-awaited end credits of the Evil Dog video.

Maybe long-awaited isn’t the right word.

After posting the opening and closing credits, I’ll actually upload some of the content soon.

According to Stephen Jones’ The Essential Monster Movie Guide: A Century of Creature Features on Film, TV, and Video the top 20 monster movies are:

1. King Kong (1933)
2. Bride of Frankenstein
3. Dracula (1958)
4. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
5. Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
6. Black Sunday
7. The Thing From Another World
8. The Wolf Man
9. The Creature from the Black Lagoon
10. Cat People (1942)
11. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
12. The Howling
13. Isle of the Dead
14 Frankenstein (1931)
15. Mad Love
16. I Walked with a Zombie
17. Dracula (1931, Spanish version)
18. Son of Frankenstein
19. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
20. The Night Stalker (1971)

I’ve missed 6, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, and 20 (although I’ve seen the Night Stalker sequel about 90 times).

One of the centipedes (or two of them separately) escaped. I caught it the first time by the washing machine and the second time in the bathtub. It looks mean but doesn’t act aggressively. I keep upping security and giving them meal worms so I hope they’re secure.

I managed to upload the intro music for Evil Dog, a magazine once published in Cincinnati. It should start making sense when I upload more.

No, that’s not the name of the sexy new Borg cast member in Star Trek. It’s how many students showed up to English 101. Eventually two more came by, making it eight of 22 but I thought I was justified in cutting class short. Right now, getting half the class and not just a third looks good.

On a lighter note, Crazy Santa/Dr. W.A.S. is still yelling. Today he called for a name change of NKU.  I actually agree with him. “Northern Kentucky” sounds so generic.

Either I’m going crazy or he’s starting to make sense.

I wasn’t going to post about this today but I just saw an article that claims that dogs are doing in the planet (again with stupid comments). Considering that the primary ingredient in most dog food is corn, I have to wonder about the competence of the writers.

If I was a sensitive sort, I would be offended by the comment about pet millipedes. My shipment from Niles Biological came in today.

The planaria are about what I expected. They’re settling into their new tank. The three millipedes are darker than Stripey who was a Florida Ivory Millipede but the new guys are something else.

The four centipedes are a lot bigger than I expected. They fit into their tank but they’re about five inches long each and move like lightning.

The two of the hissing cockroaches are what I expected but one is the size of my fist and has horns (I kid ye not). I’ll post of picture of it soon but it’s much bigger than the old ones.

Still, I’d never force these guys on a dog owner. My old dog was worth all the bugs in the world.

I’ve been looking for updates and for some reason checked Cincinnati.com. Their article wasn’t bad but one of the comments contained:

We the traditional majority, the posterity of the founders, need to right now DEMAND that these traitors in Washington abandon all of these failed policies (diversity,tolerance,the multicult)…All muslims and other potential traitors jettisoned from the military – post haste. NOW!!! Then you start putting all those in the media that try to condemn it under military arrest as traitors to the pursuit of law and order. You don’t fight extremists like this by half hearted measures that they abandon their treason and idiotic policies now!!! America first, to hell with the multicult.

Am I surprised that we rounded up George Takei during WWII? Not with these guys around.