Til the Last Hemlock Dies

I went to see some mountains today. I'll post more later. The Black Mountains of North Carolina. Highest mountain range in the easte...

Editor S.T. Joshi sent me the galley proofs for my first short story collection, A CONFEDERACY OF HORRORS which will be appearing in 2014 fr...

People always wish me a "happy weekend". I have to work almost every single weekend. Weekends generally suck for me because I'...

Well, we had two flat tires on the Casita. The first was when I hit a very nasty pothole in the road. It dented the rim and made the tire go...

For many years I have been meaning to hike to the summit of "The Pinnacle" above the town of Sylva. I think I have covered such pl...

The section of North Carolina where we went to camp is well known for its vast wealth of waterfalls. There are quite literally thousands of ...

I bagged a peak that has been on my list for about two decades. There was always something coming up to get in the way. I'll post detail...

I revisited a couple of waterfalls I saw ten years ago. Strange how I'd forgotten how beautiful this part of North Carolina is. Just ama...

I'll be offline for a couple days. Heading up to the mountains to hike a little, find some waterfalls, etc. One thing that is high on my...

Today I was able to buy a mid-grade copy of FANTASTIC FOUR #65. I only need one issue in the 60s, now. Once I have #67 I plan to sit down an...

Well, there are only a few issues of FANTASTIC FOUR that I need after #20. A few had been proving tough to locate, but I've managed to g...

Well, the RepubliKKKan fucks have seemingly wrecked our vacation plans. We have a fall-back option to go to a different part of the southern...

The two greatest Silver Age comics artists at depicting and handling high drama were Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. I've already covered Di...

Well, the government shut-down has all but killed our vacation plans. As if I needed one more reason to hate Republicans . We were hoping ...