Archive for October, 2011

Goblins, ghosts + gories: Happy Halloween!

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Halloween greetings to the curious g readers! Costume prepped? Broomstick, or favorite mode of transport ready for this year’s festivities? If you prefer visiting haunted sites to dress-up, here’s last year’s list of the 5 best haunted haunts.

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Are the Harris Burdick mysteries solved?

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

A friend gave me this wonderful book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, back in the 1980s inscribed by its author, Chris Van Allsburg. Unlike Van Allsburg’s other books (Jumanji, Polar Express for example), he did not create these illustrations – or so the story goes. Where did they come from, you may wonder? The story [...]

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Quick, painless and really the end

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

While not as publically-proclaimed as the 21 may 2011 Rapture, Harold Camping has declared this friday, 21 october, the real deal. “We can be sure that the whole world… will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011.” What the believers did Camping’s previous declarations didn’t come to fruition, and sent [...]

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Manhattan is running on empty

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

I’ve been walking this city for along time. When I arrived, New York was a raw city. I knew where to walk, and where to avoid. But the one thing I could always rely on, if things got a bit dicey, were gas stations. They were always nearby as a safe haven. Well, it’s a [...]

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