Randy | December 5, 2013
Tonight, even as Swiety Mikolaj (Saint Nicholas) bestows his annual sugar buzz on the Children of Poland, Krampus stalks the land on his annual punitive expedition, hell bent on plying his own particular brand of “teaching a lessonry”. Nothing like a good birching among fiends! I’ve written of Krampus in past episodes, and for clarity, […]
Randy | December 1, 2013
This poem was inspired by actual events. Persons involved may be known to the author. Great Pith an’ Moment By LFM (Click here to listen to the LFM himself reciting Great Pith An’ Moment!) To change a bairn’s wee bottom is Nae horrid thing to do, For nae deathly thing awaits ye In amongst the […]
Randy | November 19, 2013
Thanks once again to the unflagging vigilance of doppelgänger “Uncle Jim” Keating, I found myself laughing my way this morning through the brilliant work of Swedish Artist Andreas Englund – specifically his growing series of oil paintings depicting, “… the candidly humorous life of an anonymous superhero who has probably seen better days. Though he […]
Randy | October 30, 2013
Of all the peoples in all the lands, none harbours such a brooding darkness as the Irish, and of the history of their nation, there is none anywhere dark enough to compare. Even the national drink is impenetrable. Today we have the tale of a hapless traveller serendipitously gifted with an encounter that will leave […]
Randy | October 25, 2013
Today’s Dark Sentiment may or may not be appropriately titled, but no matter. What follows was inspired by SFM, and led to me turning an old joke I heard a long time ago from a Bermudian broadcaster into a poem that ends with poop. Before that though, it has a near death experience, rescue, bad […]
Randy | October 20, 2013
The lore surrounding iron goes back into antiquity, and many are the beliefs that trust it to have the power to ward off evils from the supernatural realm. The intention to keep the dead at rest is why cemeteries, and even individual graves of a certain age, are often contained within iron fences – both […]
Randy | October 18, 2013
On Sunday (Julian calendar) the 4th day of August in 1577, a thunder storm of wrath of God proportions unleashed its fury between the morning hours of 9 and 10 o’clock over Suffolk, England. Within four weeks of that event, a slim volume titled Straunge and Terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish church […]
Randy | October 7, 2013
Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz of Villafane Studios have been a necessity here since the very first season. This year on 19 and 20 October 2013, they are once again participating in The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Zoological Garden (that annual NYZG event is on now, and runs until 31 October 2013). The […]
Randy | October 6, 2013
A whole 31 days in October every year, and it still can’t hold all the shit I find in the 12 months leading up to it. Ah well, one does what one can. “Frozen Dead Guy Days” is an annual event held in Nederland, Colorado – next scheduled for 7, and, and 9 March 2014 – […]
Randy | October 5, 2013
Brown Bag Films is an Irish company described on its website as: Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studio. Since 1994, their Dublin-based headquarters have produced cutting-edge animation for the international market, bagging numerous awards along the way. These include Oscar® nominations for Give Up Yer Aul Sins (2002), Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty […]