Holst your horses.

A spammer named Inger Holst keeps sending me messages.

I can’t train my mind not to notice because that name sounds so much like a severe, minimalist German film director who wants to adapt my writing.

Update — maybe she IS a German director. I dunno. When it comes to foreign film, I’m pretty Ingerant.



Throwback Thursday: this 1985 Halloween ad for Carvel Ice Cream!

Here’s another television commercial for Carvel Ice Cream, with the … unique vocal talent of owner Tom Carvel.  (I’ve written about Carvel Ice Cream here at the blog before.)  I am linking here today to Steve Herold’s Youtube channel.

These are obviously Halloween-themed cakes.  But listen … what are the names of the characters?  There is another voiceover guy here (not Carvel), and I swear it sounds like he’s saying “Dumpy the Pumpkin” and “Ricky the Witch.”  Those can’t be right, can they?

Have a safe Halloween, guys!



Poster for “Doctor Sleep” (2019)

Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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“Hello, Darkness, my old friend.”

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“A Golden Eve,” Benjamin Leader, 1875

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This kind of thing is gonna get old real fast.

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Cover to “Vanity Fair,” November 2017, photo by Jason Bell

Condé Nast.  Pictured are Anthony Mackie, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson.

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Pal of mine made a Halloween cake.

And I thought it turned out pretty damn good.  What you see are monster claw marks.

Y’know … speaking of claw marks … it occurs to me now that I still haven’t gotten to see a bear since I arrived in Southwest Virginia.  I need to remedy that somehow, but I’m not sure how to go about it.



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Painting of Bishop’s Palace in Bangor, Wales, circa 1840

Oil on canvas.  Anonymous artist.

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