I love J-horror movies. I find them more frightening, more sutble sometimes, than any American slasher flick. For those not in the know, J-horror simply means scary movies from Japan. The Ring, The Grudge, etc. Many have been remade in America but retain their stylish psychological anticipation which is good – nothing like letting an [...]
Archive for October, 2010
21 Oct
EUREKA! The Writing Spider Solves her Own Problem
Thank you, NPR. I was listening yesterday on the way home from work and you have brought me the solution to my problem. The answer to my prayers. For years I’ve been complaining to everybody who would listen (or read) about Thug Life and finally this intrepid and wily police dean has devised a solution [...]
18 Oct
It’s a hard-knock life
Yesterday afternoon, Husband drew my attention to Asshat Manor, which has been eerily silent and still for a few days. According to a neighbor, the brothers Asshat, Thug Life the Elder and Thug Life the Younger, are preparing for the court date situation. Perhaps you recall a previous Thug Life post wherein an argument escalated when [...]
18 Oct
A Faire by Any Other Name…
Husband and I, with our intrepid friends C and M, made the journey north to the Ohio Renaissance Festival this weekend. I went once in college (that’s a whole ‘nother story) and my friend C is a big ol Ren fest geek. She’s been dying to go for years and we finally made plans and [...]
12 Oct
The Trouble with Sunday
There’s a Boomtown Rats song called “I Don’t Like Mondays.” Except for the title, it’s mostly irrelevant to my point here, but the song was written after band member Bob Geldof heard a story about a teenager who open fired on a playground in California in 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children. The [...]
10 Oct
A Day in the Thug Life
Last night Husband was working on the wires for our new TV and I was in the living room. Montel and Cherrie came out and put le Enfant Terrible in the Golden Jagular. For about an hour, they had her/him in the car seat with all the car doors open, car running. Le enfant terrible [...]
6 Oct
Monsters Hall of Fame
My writing group recently decided to take on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. Well, we’re actually not a “group” per se. We are three which doesn’t seem to count as a whole group. We’re perhaps most of a group. A writing few, maybe? Anyway, the book’s aim is to unleash your pent-up creativity and we [...]
4 Oct
Welcome to Asshat Acres
Met my new neighbors yesterday. Yes, there are more ew neighbors for me to write about! They’ve been renting the condo on the opposite side of our quad which means we share a few walls with them. Until yesterday our observations have been thus: Their kid screams. A LOT. They park their very new and sparkly gold Jaguar [...]
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