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goings-on around the Dayton, OH, and Miami Valley area

Frisch’s Big Boy sucks

In which the author, on a quest for a mid-ice meal, gives good sport to the folks at Frisch’s Big Boy restaurant, by getting trapped in their unsalted, iced-over parking lot, which is shaped exactly like one of those Star Trekian gravity wells you see in illustrated books on black hole physics. Continue reading

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Dead thing at the hell house

The house next door to us is abandoned and boarded up. It didn’t used to be. There used to be some middle-aged lady living there. She was an addict of some sort. There was often craziness over there, including one … Continue reading

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Hauntfest: The Exorcist

As promised, here’s a picture from Hauntfest 2008 of a couple of people dressed as a scene from the movie The Exorcist… Brilliant!

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Hauntfest 2008

This is the only decent picture of me as Satan. And here’s Holly as a sexy-ass she-devil: Hauntfest is like a micro-Mardis Gras in the hip, urban enclave of Dayton known as the Oregon District. Thousands of bodies, all drunken … Continue reading

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Robbed!

Well, it finally happened. We have been robbed. Our nice Samsung flat-panel LCD television set is now sitting in the parlour of one who never deserved it. Along with the remote. I wanna murder a mothafucka.  Somewhere out there is a scruffy … Continue reading

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