Dozens of children young and old collected candy from yours truly tonight. Here’s my hideous visage: Aren’t blacklights wonderful? I wasn’t alone, however. I had help from Uncle Grim and Fido: Most trick-or-treaters were entertained. Except one. I swung open the door and a five year old boy screamed in abject terror. His parents led […]

Back before I started this blog thing, I looked into other places like Blogger, LiveJournal, and MySpace. I wasn’t crazy about any of them at first. I actually signed up for MySpace, and was immediately receiving messages from total strangers who wanted to be my “friends.” Well, that didn’t make much sense to me. I […]

I’m not the best about keeping up with current events. I get frustrated with news coverage that doesn’t answer my questions or just repeats the same sensationalized images over and over. I did tune in for the news this week (how could I not?) and I ended up craving… maps. An overall layout of the […]

Now anybody with a cell phone can sign up for a Gmail account. Google is sending out text message invites to people who sign up at http://gmail.com/. It looks like the beta testing might be done soon, as their group of testers is growing ever larger. I’ve been using Gmail for over a year now, […]

Win a copy of Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream! I’ve got a real snazzy package to send out to a lucky reader. It includes the DVD screener, some ironic posters about select midnight movies, and other goodies. Just send an email to info(AT)maddogmovies.com by September 15, 2005 to qualify for the drawing. […]

Snopes.com is the best resource on the net for researching urban legends. You know, those “true” horror stories that you heard really happened to a friend of your cousin’s roommate. Legends about killer pop rocks, stolen kidneys, and killers with hooks for hands. They also deal with the sources of more mundane myths, like Nigerian […]

After two days of frantic emails to my webhosts (past and present), maddogmovies.com is back online. The problem comes down to that strange and powerful entity, the registrar. The name itself conjures an image of a great and powerful potentate, a minister at the head of a vast empire who has absolute control over its […]

I’ve been riding a Bruce Campbell wave all week. I bought his new book a few days ago, read a great interview with him last night, and woke up to hear Brother Wease interview him on WCMF this morning. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way isn’t like other books. Bruce calls it an autobiographical novel. […]

Rochester jam band The Niche played a gig in Plattsburgh on Friday. My buddy Ryan DeClerck did a groovy Friday the 13th themed poster for the show. Just thought some folks would get a kick out of it, so I’m posting it here: For more of Ryan’s psychedelic artwork, visit http://www.aliencountry.org/

So what exactly happened with my old webhost? Well, in mid-March Cyberpixels moved my site from Wintermute servers (whatever that means) to a more reliable server to help correct the downtime I was having. That worked okay for several weeks. Then the site went down for several hours on April 5th. I wrote to them […]