Month: June 2009

Nostalgia: The Company

I have another entry I’m supposed to write first, but it’s on a sensitive issue and I’m not sure I want certain people finding it. It’s unlikely that they would, but if they did, it would cause a great deal of embarrassment. (More than I’ve opened myself to already!) Instead in this entry I’ll write …

The Blade Man

Last night I had a wild dream. I dreamed that I was on an airplane, and suddenly it was hijacked by a humble looking WASP couple in their mid 20’s. The woman looked like Naomi Watts and the man I recognized as some type of actor, but I can’t remember his name or any films …

11-Second Nightmare World

In the first dream, Granny Mabel was hounding me from beyond the grave again. I distinctly remember listening in to one of her ghostly phone conversations (sure), wherein she talked about a wide variety of subjects. I don’t remember the specifics but they included such topics as: her life as she recalled it, her love …

Nerd-Boy’s Day At School

I never really have been one to complete projects that I start, but back in 199X or so (when I was in High School) I encountered a simple game development engine called ZZT. Coded by Tim Sweeney of Epic MegaGames, it used ANSI characters to present very simple graphics, and most games focused on an …

Roiling Baked Beans

I don’t know what it is with my subconscious and baked beans, but a few weeks ago I had yet another baked bean-related dream. I was lost in Louisville trying to get to my uncle’s house, and for some reason I was going to have to travel through a network of underground pipes to get …

Super Vampire Crime Killers

I dreamed that me and Bill and all my friends were Vampires, and we were biting necks and chopping off people’s heads and cutting people in half. For some reason we were in Florida and it was really hot. I was still fat, and I remember thinking, “Florida is no place for a fat person …