Dumb White Husband

Scarydad January 31, 2014 No Comments

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Hello Minions, Let me take a moment and officially welcome myself to the cadre of awesome writers that make up Dumb White Husband. I’ve been contributing articles occasionally over the past year. Recently, Ben revamped and relaunched the site. He gathered several really good writers to submit funny and interesting content, and he invited me to do a regular column too.

Honestly, I feel a little outclassed and very honored to be part of this team.

If you haven’t already visited the site from one of the guest posts I’ve done in the past, check us out today. Later tonight we are hosting Dumb White Husband Movie Night wherein we all sync our Netflix to watch and tweet about the remake of Red Dawn

Tonight we’ll see if the Australian Thor is anywhere near as ‘Murica as our beloved Swayze. My money’s on no.

If everything goes right, my first official feature will appear tomorrow and I’ll make sure to post all the links to various social media points of contact.

Now, kick back and have a beer. It’s FRIDAY!

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Vintage Clock for the Laboratory

Scarydad January 27, 2014 2 Comments

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Hello Minions. Man, let me tell you that these past few days have not been the best of times. First, someone hit my car and took off, then Sequel got shots and the subsequent grumpy face that goes along with that. Then Bride got sick, then the computer crashed, then Spawn and I got sick. Then it was Monday again. So, how was your week?

I did manage to get one good project done this week and am all the more happy I can share it with you. You see, a few months ago I acquired a vintage Stromberg school clock for free from a guy who was cleaning out his garage. It was a very old electric model.

It worked when I got it and I hung it proudly in the lab over the resurrection bench. It kept time well and I used to gleefully imagine all the poor children who watched that second hand go around so very slowly in endless days of monotony.

Well, then it broke. I’m not sure why, but it stopped working one day. The scary part was that it kept humming and sucking electricity without actually doing anything so I feared it was plotting a fiery something or other for me. I looked into getting it fixed but the one guy who fixes electric clocks in my city lives about an hour away from here in a rather ungood area of town. So I decided to take matter into my own hands.

Before anyone gets upset at the destruction of this piece, I assure you I looked into every avenue to ensure there was no collector or other value before I began my modifications. Three different clock places told me to just throw it away and buy one that was battery-operated.

I did one better…

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My Computer Died Last Night

Scarydad January 23, 2014 No Comments

Last night I went to take a shower to wash off some of the blood and when I came back my computer had gone black screen o’ death. Not a fun evening.

So, I’ve replaced it with new equipment but I’ve only just plugged it in and am getting it set up. I have not transferred data from the old to the new machine.

There is also something wrong with my email. I don’t know what’s going on but when I try to reply to email I get a strange error message. My hosting company has a message up on their site saying they are having technical difficulties too so they may be related.

If you submitted a request for guest postings, I have seen them and I am interested but I cannot respond to you personally. Be patient and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Otherwise you may reach me through one of the many social media sites I use, but until I get my operation back up and running, I don’t know if that would help much.

Thank for your patience,

Scarydad

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Scarydad January 21, 2014 No Comments

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Hello there Minions, tonight we will be discussing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I was inspired to read the adventures of Ichabod Crane and that cranially-challenged Hessian because of recent features by Boys and Ghouls and Autodidact in the Attic on their blogs.

The Headless Horseman has always fascinated me and I’ve been familiar with the story since I was a very small boy. And because if this I had always assumed, somehow, that I had read the original story by Irving. After reading Victoria’s blog post, however, I realized that there was a possibility that I hadn’t. That, instead, I had simply let all the different TV and storybook versions become an amalgam of story that eventually coalesced in my mind.

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Some Random Stuff I Made out of Scraps

Scarydad January 16, 2014 No Comments

IMG_1077 Hello there everyone, I hope you are well. Tonight I was cleaning out some folders and I found a couple of little projects I did around Halloween. I thought I had lost the pictures but since they’re here, I’ll tell you about the projects!

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Doctor Who is too scary for Spawn.

Scarydad January 13, 2014 No Comments

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On Saturday I was placed in charge of Spawn and Sequel while Bride took a nap. After a while the baby was asleep and the 3-year-old was playing quietly in her room so I decided to watch something on TV that did not involve Disney Princesses. Everyone I know who has watched it is fully in love with Doctor Who and I’ve been trying to get into it. By “trying to get into it” I don’t mean to say it’s not something I’m into and have to acquire a taste for or anything. Quite the opposite, in fact. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the episodes I’ve seen, I just never seem to find the time to watch episodes. It’s a rough life.

So, I sneaked an episode while nobody was looking. Except that someone was looking. Spawn came back into the room at some point and was sitting on the couch with me. Nothing of note had occurred in the episode so I didn’t think much of it. Then the fellow in the picture above appeared suddenly and scared the bejeezus out of my little girl.

Since 11 am yesterday, all she has talked about is the scary pig man on Doctor Who and how it’s too scary and how maybe when she grows up she can watch the scary pig man but not now because he’s too scary. If my daughter has an irrational fear of pigs at some point, I guess it’s my fault.

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