Blackjack thumb
Yesterday was graduation day for our only child. Her class consisted of over 1000 students, so it took a solid two hours to march them all across the stage, with about a 3-5 second pause between names.
After weeks of dry weather, it decided to threaten rain yesterday afternoon, which could have been bad news because [...]
er er er er ooooooo
My feeble attempt at sounding like a rooster. Crowing as it were.
I got my first IMDB listing as screenwriter for Gotham Café. Simple things amuse simple minds.
Also, click here to see a promotional poster for the Stoker Banquet, which takes place in a month in Burbank. The list of attending celebs is mighty impressive, including [...]
Endings
I’m going to try to be vague here about what I discuss, but I’m sure there will be inevitable spoilers so, beware.
Ending #1: The season finale of Desperate Housewives last night. I thought they did a very good job of wrapping up the major plot lines, while still leaving enough open to carry us through [...]
Graduated
We’re down to the wire — our daughter graduates from high school next week. The weather better cooperate–the event is being held at the local concert pavilion. The graduates will be okay; they’ll be under the canopy. We’ll be sitting on the hillside, though. If it rains, it’s gonna get ugly!
Afterward, the school is holding [...]
Dreaming of Waking
I had a strange movielike experience this morning. Several times in the hour-long period before the alarm went off, I dreamt that I woke up and went to the shower. Except it wasn’t always the shower that’s in our house, and in a couple of instances it was a shower that couldn’t possibly exist. Once, [...]
ps: HHG
I meant to mention that we went to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last weekend. It’s the first time in months — perhaps the first time in 2005 — that we went to a theater to see a film rather than renting on DVD.
The movie was okay. Not great, but it captured a [...]
A carnivore’s dream
Flower update: We had a big rainstorm a week or so ago, and I feared for the well being of my Tori Amos flowers. I thought maybe they would get washed out of the little pot. But they’re doing spectacularly well, popping up all over the place in the clay pot. I have no idea [...]
Green thumb
I can’t remember the last time I planted something.
I bought Tori Amos’ new album a month or three ago. It came with a DVD (still unwatched) and a packet of flower seeds. The packet stayed in my car console until last week, on a whim, I pulled out a clay pot, filled it full of [...]
How to raise a turtle’s cholesterol
When the weather is nice (which means, not scorchingly hot and humid), I like to take my lunch on a bench in a little park not far from where I work. The offices around this park are all abandoned and there’s a nice big pond that is stocked with a gazillion fish that has also [...]
About
Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
