I give a warm holiday greetings to any practicing witches reading this.
We are on the eve of Walpurgis Night. Enjoy, but don’t party too hard. The rest of you, I hope you have lain your bonfires for lighting.
Tonight’s edition of Carnacki’s Chiller Theater is taped in advance before a dead studio audience because as you read this, I am trapped in a minivan with three children under the age of 7. The horror! The horror!
So turn down your lights. Turn up your spookiest music. And prepare to enter the only diary on the BooMan Tribune that is a blatant ripoff, I mean homage, of Cheers & Jeers.
Thrills to Iranian Jones. Iranian archaeologists are trying to solve a mystery: Why was a temple hidden under rocks and broken bricks? My guess is an ancient curse was involved. You gotta be careful with those temple curses. That’s how Karl Rove was unleashed upon the world.
Thrills to library discoveries . I get excited when I find an Agatha Christie or Louis Lamour I haven’t read. A Welsh librarian discovered The Genealogy of Jesus Christ, a centuries old tome whose discovery is like a plot twist in The Da Vinci Code.
Thrills to papyrus yields ancient secrets to new technology. Amazingly new information revealed although, one of the secrets unlocked was already covered by Alan Moore in a Marvel comic book. I always thought Stan Lee was on the side of the angels.
Chills to taking away popular myths. Experts say nothing to the full moon creating havoc. Police dispatchers and hospital nurses say differently.
Chills to Lake Erie’s dead zone. Large section of Lake Erie is a dead zone. Fertilizers, pollution, and mussels suspected (I bet mussels take the fall for it.)
Chills to the Amityville Horror. Or as I dubbed it, the Amityville Snorer.
Thrills to hauntingly beautiful photographs.
Thrills to mysterious tunnels.
And saving the best for last, Thrills to 42 and her dear daughter’s accounts and photographs of Recollections Ossuary at Sedlec, Czech Republic: Church of All Saints.
So what is Thrilling and Chilling you?
I’ll be away until Sunday evening. Until then, keep the ghosts away, but your spirits up.
Chills to messy forms of Frog Marching. To quote Booman, “Let that be a lesson to Karl Rove”.
Chills that we need an ever larger circle of protection to keep us from the evils of this administration
Chills is there enough salt in the oceans? To cast wide enough circles we will need more than available now
Thrills to the renewals of spring – the fertility of the earth
Thrills to the casting off of the winter of darkness…may it be more than symbolic
Blessed be to the Pagans – whatever path they walk
Blessed be to all who do no harm – we need you all in continuing the cast a wider circle of protection
May the fires of Beltane be purifying for you all!
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thrills from watching McCain suppress his anger at the torture we have been committing, when he questioned Steven Cambone in the Armed Service Committee.
I got chills when Cambone totally blew him off.
The library discovery is truly fascinating..I sure hope it turns out to be authentic. What a find and only proves again how much is out there about history that is just waiting to be discovered or unearthed. And what a shock it may be to Christians when the real story of Jesus gets out..whatever that may be.
Loved the whole 616 story and how Marvel comics apparently already knew this…Of course it still amazes me how people today make fun of ancient religions and superstitions yet actually believe that somehow the numbers 666 were/are evil in themselves..
Off hand I have no thrills/chills to report this week but if I think of any you’ll be the first to know.
my local convenience store is run by a loose cabal of former residents of the Soviet Union.
A pack of cigarettes and a half-gallon of milk costs $6.66. It is a not unfrequent purchase of mine.
A certain former Muscovite will always redo the transaction so that my bill is $6.65.
I just smile at him.
Well now I guess if you really want to fuck with him you can tell him of the astounding new discovery concerning 666 and that it really should be 616..so he can freak out over a whole new set of numbers..And as we speak, I with my shaking hands have pulled the blankets up around my neck and in a quiet yet terrified voice I croak….I see numbers…dead numbers.
Thrills to a weekend
Chills to Bush’s makeup job during the speech/ad for hideous SS plan. My understanding is that they had to fire the original makeup person and couldn’t get the blush off in time.
(click here for bad first attempt with the GIMP)
Ah, it all makes sense now. Gannon, Saudi princes. But he’s an insult to the gay community. I think he was trying to win back votes from the Social Sec. community. If I was 70, I might say he was hot 😉