It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we’d be waiting… in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would be down, you see, between the real and the unreal, and the dead might be looking in… to sit by our fires of turf. This eerie quote from Halloween 3: Season of the witch made me wonder what wattles and clay and turf might be.  It’s always good to learn new things.  Keep reading to be...

Carving a pumpkin, wearing a costume, and collecting tasty candy are really the only things a child dreams about during the month of October. One of my absolute fondest memories of Halloween growing up was picking out my costume. I was lucky enough to have been of trick or treating age in the late seventies through the eighties. Costumes at this time, at least for budget conscious parents like mine, were usually found in cardboard boxes...

    I am not just a computer geek but I am a geek on many levels. I am a beer geek, a music geek, a high-definition geek, a book geek, and I finally a movie geek. Lately I have been admiring the folks that bring the movies I love to life.   The great Sidney Lumet’s passing  made me realize how these films and the men that made them affected my life. I decided to make a list, not of the world’s most influential directors, but...

Throughout the course of my life I have met some extremely colorful characters.  I have a large circle of people who I am happy to call friends.  I have a lot of clients that I work for that I don’t really consider friends.  I want to tell you about a couple that fall into the former group. These folks originally joined my group of acquaintances by becoming customers of mine. I was approached to update their existing business...

   Well, it’s my birthday on November the 13th.  I always find myself looking to the past when my birthday rolls around. I was born in 1973. I personally have never really looked into the events of my birth year so I thought I would research a bit and share my findings.  Turns out it was a rather amazing year and not just because I was born.  Here is the list of factoids I discovered. Some of my favorite movies were released in...

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