Six Word Wednesday

The desert wind called to him.

Happy Thought

Another upcoming weekend where I don't have to do laundry

Six Word Wednesday

Boy meets Girl. Girl impregnates Boy.

In Honor Of Father's Day

My Dad made me the geek I am today. He loved Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe and would watch them a lot on channel 11. I'd watch for a little bit because it wasn't in color and the special effects didn't hold to 1970/80s standards.

However my Dad did take my brother and I to see the original (and good) Star Wars Trilogy, The Black Hole, Tron, Short Circuit, and countless others.

Once we had cable television I'd spend many weekends and summers absorbing the obscure films, The Eliminators, Buckaroo Banzai, Krull, Battle Beyond the Stars, and countless others.

Six Word Wednesday

Your world is only an illusion.

Happy Thought

Flying my kite at the Kensico Dam in Valhalla on a Saturday afternoon.

Six Word Wednesday

It only starved to be touched.

Alright You Primitive Screwheads, Listen Up!

Despite my blog's tag line of Evil Dead, Lego, Robots and Zombies I don’t write much about them. I’m going to change all that and dedicate a post per month about the geeky things I love, also growing up as a geek.

I wasn’t aware of Evil Dead 1 & 2, maybe it was so obscure my local video store didn’t carry them. It was the cover of Army of Darkness that caught my attention as I browsed the new release section but the tagline of ‘Trapped in Time, Surrounded by Evil, Low on Gas’ made me take the box off the shelf to read the plot synopsis on the back.

All it took was one viewing for me to be hooked on the Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell awesomeness.

The only problem with being a fan of Evil Dead since the early 90s was rebuying the trilogy. I owned all three on VHS but with the introduction of DVDs as the next media format, movies were being released with bonus material. So I waited for the special Necronomicon edition of Evil Dead before buying it. Same with Army of Darkness, the Boomstick Edition with the alternate ending.

When I owned a PC computer, I used the sound of Ash’s mechanical hand as the start up. For the longest time I used Ash’s maniacal face from Evil Dead 2 as my avatar on social media sites. Evil Dead or Evil_Dead_71/1971 was my nickname when I played multi-players FPS.

When City of Heroes added catchphrases I used ‘Good, bad. I’m the guy with Energy Blasts’ and would have it triggered on a power that dealt the most damage.

On my left wrist is a tattoo of a shotgun, on my right is a chainsaw.

Of course I follow Bruce Campbell on twitter.

Thank you Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell for providing me with quality entertainment that has only gotten better over the years.

Happy Thought

Going up to Mount Kisco and walking around the Bazaar Mall.

I always liked the bridges that connected the top levels and the center section that was raised up. Since I wouldn't go there so often (The Galleria was closer) I would get a little lost when trying to find a store. Luckily the bagel place never moved and had a direct route from an entrance.

When I was in Junior Achievement we had a sales competition there, our team came up with the idea of a coat check which was a success. During the day a friend and I went to the CVS and because I was well dressed a customer thought I worked there. I played along and my friend thought it was funny.

I was sad when I discovered that it was torn down.

Six Word Wednesday

My zombie brain delayed today's story.