The year is 1979. I’m four years old and living with my parents in an apartment complex in Norfolk, Virginia. My dad is in the Navy, stationed at the naval base there. It was a simpler time – a time filled with cliches and hyperbole. As a four year old, my job was simple – … Continue reading
So, I’m looking at the new Bespin Fatigues Luke Skywalker figure I picked up a couple of weeks ago (five UPCs from these figs equal a mail-away, rocket-firing Boba Fett figure using the original mold from the eighties!) and a thought occurred to me… …which I decided would make a decent CHUD Blog. In fact, … Continue reading
There was an absence in the airIn the halls of CHUD – I was not there. My Blog – untouched for a week or two.No one noticed, only Ken Savage knew. But the reasons for my vanishing act are clear:My mother’s heart was in need of repair. And I don’t mean that in a metaphorical … Continue reading
“If you’re just joining us, it’s 4:54 in the AM and you’re watching Perspectives.” -Lionel Osbourne I found this line (from the old SNL skit with Tim Meadows) constantly popping up in my head this past Saturday as I made my official debut on public access in northern Virginia (NoVa to the locals). The reason … Continue reading
Between the tag-team review that Renn and Nick did last week and the write-ups some of my fellow CHUD Bloggers have been offering up in their respective blogs about the movie Predators, it seems rather redundant for me to deliver yet another blast of white noise that’ll just vanish into the ether with the rest … Continue reading
This past weekend I got to enjoy four days off as our nation took part in its annual celebration of the day it won its independence from British rule, or as is more commonly known by our friends across the water – the day they finally acknowledged, “Okay, we get it. You don’t like tea.” … Continue reading
This week has left me a little scatter-brained. This has caused my thoughts to become doubly so. So as not to short change my one reader– Crap, that’s right. He’s on holiday this week. No matter! I will still provide content this week in the form of random anecdotes that have crossed my telepod-reassembled bit … Continue reading
I can’t stand the heat. I know, I know – I should get out of the kitchen. Seriously, though, I’m not a big fan of hot weather. Anything over seventy-five degrees and I’m already starting to break a sweat. And if it’s humid, you can subtract about five to ten degrees from that. Being hot … Continue reading
Father – forgive me, for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my last blog confession. My work schedule has been temporarily changed for the past couple of weeks. This has left me seeing day where you see night, telling me it’s black when I know that it’s white.It’s always the same. It’s … Continue reading
It’s been a consistency – from high school up to the present, I have always had friends who like to play some kind of poker, from straight to community and everything in between. Unfortunately, I never really got into it like my friends have. I tried back in high school, with zero success. Whenever members … Continue reading