Voodoo Curse

Scarydad February 11, 2014 No Comments

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Hello there yon’ Minions. I know it’s been a minute since we spoke. Well, I think someone went out and cast a voodoo curse on me. It seems like every time I turn around something else is broken.

Yesterday I had to get a rental because someone hit my car and I had to put it into the shop. Then my work computer was giving me fits so I was on with IT for an hour or so. Then I went back out to the rental and THE TIRE WAS FLAT. I got it pumped up enough to get it back to the place and they gave me a new car. By that time it was late and so I decided to read a couple emails and call it quits. Oh, that’s a useful document, *print.*

Printer stopped working.

Oh yeah, and the present I ordered for my niece’s birthday arrived 2 days after the party.

Sorry I haven’t written much lately but it’s been one of those weeks.

SD

Scary Movie Night: Red Dawn

Scarydad February 3, 2014 No Comments

movie_10518I was seven years old when Red Dawn came out. At the time I was too young to watch scary movies and wouldn’t have even if I’d been allowed to because my overactive imagination would torture me constantly. For whatever reason, war movies were acceptable and I saw many of them. Delta Force, Rambo, Missing in Action 1 and 2… They were all played in heavy rotation at my house. And I realize that three of the four films I used as examples are Chuck Norris films. Being a kid in the 80’s was awesome.

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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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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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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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Happy New Year!

Scarydad January 2, 2014 No Comments

hornsHello and Happy New Year to all my loyal Minions. It’s been awhile, I know. Let me tell you that I’ve missed you quite a bit but I had to force myself to take a break for a while. Here’s why:

In addition to running your favorite website, including doing research, designing and building projects, taking pictures, and running several social media personas, your pal Scarydad is also a husband and a father. In November we welcomed Spawn of Scarydad Part II (The Sequel). I had a newborn and a 3-year-old, and a recovering Bride to see after. Add to this a needy Doberman and the ensuing holidays, and you sort of get where I’m coming from.

I would love to say I got to spend my time off boning up on horror movies and books to review here when I came back but the truth is I mostly saw Beauty & the Beast 47 times and used any spare moment I had to either sleep or try to sleep. I did catch a few gems and we will talk about them soon, but it wasn’t much.

I had forgotten how hard it was to operate when there’s an infant in the house. You think you have a handle on the situation then some giant stinky butt goblin comes out of nowhere and screws everything up. When Spawn was a few weeks old I actually Googled, “baby poops too much” because that baby pooped a hell of a lot. I haven’t needed to do the search this time because the results are pretty much, “babies poop a lot” and I know this. But I would bet that Sequel poops even more.

Yes, my horror blog has turned into a discussion about baby poop. Deal with it.

Well, long story short, my self-imposed sabbatical is complete and I’m ready to get back behind the keyboard and looking forward to a killer 2014.

Regards,

Scarydad

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Wednesday Weirdness

Scarydad December 18, 2013 No Comments

PUBLISHED by catsmob.com Hello and hello there my friends. I apologize again for not writing more lately. Suffice it to say, I have my reasons and not all of them are very entertaining. Spawn and Sequel are doing well. They are keeping me so busy. As soon as one of them is content, the other decides to sing the song of her people. At the top of her lungs. Right next to the other one… who then decides to join the chorus. They harmonize well, though, so that’s good.

The good news is that tonight I got out into the laboratory to work on something. Haven’t done that in what seems like ages. The bad news is that it’s a present for someone so I can’t show it to you. We are falling into a rhythm, however, and I’m thinking I can get back to a semi-regular schedule within the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this heavy dose of weirdness.

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