November 2, 2007
14 North Moore Street
ManhattanThe jumpsuit was in the wash, and the last of the pinkish yuk had come out of Ray's hair under the onslaught of the strongest concentration of Dr. Bronner's available. Slimer had been fed on copious quantities of big-box store brand chocolate cereal and spiced sugared watermelon seeds. Veggie Heaven ( Read more... )

There was a reason the other three Ghostbusters weren't on the job in Poughkeepsie yesterday, and very simply, it was this: turf wars. Law enforcement agencies can be notoriously difficult to make cooperate. The FBI and the BATF were willing to play nice, but the New York State Troopers had very little love for the Feds swooping in, especially ( Read more... )

The IBM Supercomputer Benchmarking Plant in Poughkeepsie lies at the center of an enormous corporate campus on the northern side of town. As far as Ray can tell, that's where the really hairy readings were coming from, although he could of course be wrong ( Read more... )

The Smith Brothers were once upon a time considered the Beards Who Made Poughkeepsie Famous. In many a world, their old factory has long since shut down and their product is now manufactured in Chicago. Not so here; the same factory continues to operate, churning out lozenges by the gross ( Read more... )

The Culinary Institute of America, as Flynn so astutely put it, is a former Jesuit seminary. As such it's located more towards the IBM corporate campus than any of the other lcations already under inspection. As such, it's rather more remote than the others; one side of the property is bounded by US Highway 9, and the other side overlooks a steep ( Read more... )

The Mid-Hudson Civic Center is quite possibly the most mundane-looking building in the city of Poughkeepsie that does not actually have a McDonald's sign on it. To the ordinary eye it looks like an ice skating rink with an awkwardly constructed concert hall of some kind attached ( Read more... )

The Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie has been in operation since 1869. It's a big, intricate building, located solidly in the middle of town, and on all of Ray's distant PKE scans it shone like a beacon.

Possibly with good reason, since the streets around it are alive with mice.

The police in Poughkeepsie, New York, are a pretty competent bunch of people. Not as easily set off as big-city cops, sure, but they do a good job by their charges. And sometimes, they're more observant than anyone might suspect. The word's out about Pennsylvania, after all. Anything that involves the National Guard and what amounts to the Pied ( Read more... )

Okay, folks. I know that a lot of you guys are from different time zones and have differing availability schedules, so I wanted to work out the timing for the Raiders of the Lost Warehouse plot ahead of schedule. I'm in American Eastern Time, generally available at a slow rate during most days and at a normal rate after about eight PM. Sunday night ( Read more... )

Friday, October 19, 2007
The Lindy Motel
Blossburg, PA"I don't think we're going to be able to keep this up, Peck," said Conrad Warner as the Denny's waitress made her way back to the kitchen. "First we claimed to be golfers, then a Little League scouting team, then a real estate convention- what's next? Shriners? I don't look good in a fez ( Read more... )