So. August ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago yesterday, my dad passed away peacefully from renal failure. I posted about it to Facebook and social media, but I didn't say anything here because, at the time, I didn't really feel up to it, and I don't have a lot to add about this whole experience, or about my relationship with my dad, that I didn't already cover. Besides which, in ( Read more... )

I've been struggling for a week now about writing this post. In the past, I've kept my problems and my anxieties mostly off this space, kept them to myself. But one of the things I'm learning is that bottling these experiences up leads to shame and recrimination and self-loathing, and I've got plenty of all of that, thanks, so I've been trying to ( Read more... )

(Was actually a few days ago, I spent it watching The Babadook, but this was already starting when that happened, and came to a head shortly after, and I thought it made a good post title ( Read more... )

When I was very young (around 7, if I'm doing my math properly) I caught a few episodes of a syndicated horror anthology show called Monsters that I had to stay up late to watch. I don't remember how many episodes of it I actually saw, but I know that I saw at least two of them, because those two remained stuck in my memory for years. Or, parts of ( Read more... )

It's been a little bit since I posted on here. I know it's like, the biggest Internet cliche around, but I really do promise to try to post more often. Things have been a little crazy the last couple of weeks, and none of it has been the kind of stuff I generally talk about on here, so I've gone a little quiet ( Read more... )

This isn't really the sort of thing I like to post about. I normally try to keep this 'blog for talking about writing and movies and monsters, but every now and then something like this creeps in, so I'll try to keep it brief: My dad is sick. He has lupus and diabetes and a whole pile of other things, and he's on dialysis ( Read more... )

Since it's become a cliche by now, I'll try to refrain from opening this post with an apology directed at the Internet in general for my long absences of late. Suffice to say that I've been incredibly busy of late, and that sadly shows no signs of abating, at least through the beginning of the new year. But I'm on the downward slope of a four-day ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my birthday. In spite of the subject line up there, I'm actually turning 31. But it seemed appropriate anyway, not only because tomorrow is the 30th, but because tomorrow is the end of my being 30. In some ways, it was a pretty big year for me. Probably bigger than I've yet realized, since I still feel kind of in the midst of it. It ( Read more... )

One of my earliest memories involves Monster Squad. I couldn't have been less than six years old, because the movie didn't come out until 1987, but I also couldn't have been in third grade yet, because the memory takes place in Sedan, Kansas, and I moved away from there in my third grade year. For those of you who aren't familiar with Sedan (I'm ( Read more... )