Summer Reading: Edgar Rice Burroughs
I get on these kicks where I’ll be suddenly interested in something I never really cared about before, then completely absorb it all in one go. Not too long ago I picked up an Edgar Rice Burroughs anthology and just had so much fun I had to share. (more…)
Wednesday Weirdness
V/H/S & V/H/S/2
Good evening Minions, I hope you are well. Tonight we discuss the films VHS and VHS 2. I know they’ve been out for a while but I’ve only just gotten around to seeing the second one and when I saw the first one, reviews for the second one were flying around because it had just come out. So, taken together, I’ll give my impression of these two films at the same time. (more…)
Wednesday Weirdness (on Thursday)
Scarydad News, Updates, and More…
Hello again everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve done regular posting so I figured it was time I let you all in on what’s been going on here at Castle Scarydad.
First up, the family. Spawn and Sequel are doing well, thank you. Sequel is already almost 5 months old! Time flies when you are extraordinarily busy.
Spawn’s cheap yaffa-block book shelves finally collapsed under the weight of too many books so I went ahead and built her a real one. She asked if she could pick the color so yesterday we went to yon Home Depot and she picked out a dark purple. Here’s a picture of her purple shelf in progress:
Next, I’ve been retooling the shop a bit. I only get a few minutes here and there to do extracurricular activities and lately those activities involve reading anarchistic philosophy tomes and watching Care Bears. However, when I do get a minute, I’ve been adding storage and improving access.
A week or so ago I was home sick from work and in addition to getting some much needed rest and a little bit of writing done, I also managed to see V/H/S 2.
I liked it overall. Will do a review of them both in the next few days. And finally,
If you haven’t seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you need to go see it. It is probably not quite as badass as the Avengers, but that’s only because there’s no Hulk in this one. It is a really, really good movie though.
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Wednesday Weirdness
Wednesday Weirdness
The Trucks
Years ago some friends and I were sitting around a campfire drinking beer and telling stories. A campfire stories tend to do, they drifted toward the supernatural and the macabre. When his turn came around, John said, “The story I’m about to tell is true. It happened up 36 near Brenham, before they widened it.”
“Oh, crap,” said Chris, “Is this about the trucks?”
“Yeah,” said John, “Now shut up before you ruin it.”
“This is messed up,” Chris said, “I remember when this happened.”
“So, what’s with the trucks?” I asked.
“So this buddy of mine works for the Bellville police department but lives in Brenam.” John said as he added another log to the fire. “One night he gets off duty and is driving home. He comes over the hill and has to slam his brakes. Like, he turned his car sideways to keep from hitting the back of an 18-wheeler that was stopped on the highway. No flares or anything and right over the hill in the middle of the road. So Larry pulls his car back around, calls it in, and sets his car back with the lights on to warn other drivers. The ones coming from that direction anyway.
It was a really bad accident. Two semis had crashed into each other head-on. One of the drivers was dead. They think the other one lived for a while but he was trapped in the cab and died before they could cut him out. Both cabs were crushed into each other so badly, burnt and fused together, so that they couldn’t pull them apart. What they ended up having to do was unhitch the trailers and winch both trucks onto a flatbed to get them to the junkyard.”
“Damn.” I said. “What a way to go.”
“It gets worse from there.” Chris said. “This used to give me nightmares.”
“So they got the trucks to the junkyard and everything was back to normal.” John said, “Except that after a few days, the trucks started to smell. After a couple more days, it got worse. Texas summers and all. The guys at the junkyard thought that maybe one of the drivers had had a dog or something in the sleeper. The odor finally got so bad that they decided to cut into the trucks to see what they could find.”
John stopped for a moment and stared at the fire. He lit a cigarette and slowly reached into the cooler for another beer.
“So, what did they find?”
“They found a family.” John said. “Mom, Dad, and a little boy. In a Miata; crushed between the trucks. Somehow the car got between them and when the trucks hit each other, the little car just got crushed into nothing. I mean, you can imagine the force of two semis going opposite directions at 70 miles an hour. They never knew what hit them.”
“Damn.” I said as I lit a cigarette of my own.
“Yep.” said John.
The three of us sat for a while, just staring at the fire..
