A friend of mine whom I grew up with in church recently posted on Facebook about an old videotape we were made to watch repeatedly in Youth Group entitled Hell's Bells. In the 1980's, the events now snidely referred to as "The Satanic Panic" formed their own bizzare, through-the-looking-glass alternate world among churchgoing America and Hell's ( Read more... )

Today I began fermenting my first batch of mead. If everything goes correctly, in a few months I will have a drinkable honey-flavored alcoholic beverage. If 15 year-old me could see this he would be shocked and devastated. He'd be frantically searching for how his life could take such a tragic turn.

For nearly all of my young adult life I was of the ( Read more... )

No one wants to read another Hobby Lobby post saying the same things others have said louder and better than I can. So much hair has been torn and so many breasts have been struck in righteous anger that I can add nothing to the general din. What I can do is be candid about myself ( Read more... )

No update since Thanksgiving. I'm losing my touch. Truthfully, I haven't had the slightest interest in blogging lately. In the past even when I've lost the motivation I've never lost the interest. Now all that's changed ( Read more... )

I'd like to take some time to talk about my music. For some time now I have been working on my music project called Sabtabiel's Remains with combines elements of thrash, goth, and power metal to tell an apocalyptic Lovecraftian story. Needless to say, it's a lot of work and the going has been slow. Rewarding and exciting, but slow.

Well, what's ( Read more... )

I hope I don't sound obsessed with the crazy McPherson woman but in the words of Apocalypse Woman's antagonist, I am flattered to be the target of such exquisite hate ( Read more... )

More and more lately I keep finding myself with things to blog about but when I sit down to do it it all goes away ( Read more... )

There is a lot of visual pollution on Facebook, much of it spiritual. It's well-meaning and I don't question anyone's faith or sincerity in sharing it. But we've all seen it and probably been annoyed by it: crude, blurry images of slogans such as "If you LOVE JESUS pass this on. If you are ASHAMED OF HIM keep scrolling," or "SHARE if you are proud ( Read more... )

Megadeth guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Dave Mustaine endorses Rick Santorum for president.

I keep meaning to sit down and blog about my actual life, but it takes one of my lifelong heroes coming out in favor of a man who opposes everything I care about to make me sit down and write.

I will put up with a lot from Dave Mustaine and I have. A lot of ( Read more... )

I spoke about it briefly on Facebook but I am still very mad about it so here's the full story ( Read more... )