Archive for January, 2008

My apologies to any of you who have commented in, say, the last six months and didn’t see your comments pop up.

A combination of a deluge of spam and becoming a daddy in late August 2007 conspired to keep me from appropriately separating spam from comment and publishing the comments while wiping out the spam.

I’ll do my best to be better about maintaining this little corner in the future.

Oh, and in case any of you want to see an example of the kind of spam I get here every hour, check out:

http://www.drsynonymous.com/2006/12/06/a-billion-dirty-words/

Seriously.  And I get a ton of hits on that article every day, so I know there really are wackos out there using such well-thought-out search terms as “porncartoon.”

Oi.

Horror is an awesome genre.   I grew up on Stephen King books, and have become such a horror snob I gave up on Stephen King books.  If a horror book or flick can’t make me squeal, squirm or jump in surprise, I’m not drawn into it. The best I can hope for from a gory movie that doesn’t move me is that I’m able to appreciate it in an artistic sort of way.

So when my upstairs neighbor decided, last night, to watch a horror flick with the volume up a little too high, I didn’t care. Hell, I was kicking it with a Harry Bosch novel and a candy bar. I was good to go.

Damn my imagination!

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