A Splintered Mind

I'm going to try hard to NOT sound maudlin, pitiful, and pathetic, but I'm having a hard time today and need to do something drastic. I'm so neurologically off I can't even walk well. But I can sit in front of a computer and vegetate. I believe I've done enough of that today. So instead of doing that for the rest of the night I'm going to write this Thursday Thirteen entry up, take some notes on my next article on punctuality and the punctuality police, sketch as best as I can, and watch a movie with my daughters. I am sharing here, but I do not want your sympathy. Please do not feel sorry for me. No teary eyed comments. No snide comments either. I am coping, albeit grumpily. Tomorrow will be a new day and I'm positive that this ticking episode will end soon. It's just that pulling off Christmas took it's toll on me. Here we go - a list of things I wish I could do right now but can't because I'm experiencing what I call a "Slow Ti...

If The Beasts That Hide From Man was the scholar's approach to cryptozoology, then Mysterious America is the fan's approach. However, this isn't a lurid and sensationalistic presentation of American mysteries. You won't find any chapters ending with "and hanging in the door handle WAS A HOOK!" This is a fortean fan's dream come true: chapters and chapters of anecdotal stories of the weirdest eye witness accounts you have ever read. All while still holding an element of plausibility. Well, somewhat plausible. The reader may chuckle at tales of mysterious swamp lights and think of ancient tales of will-o-whisps, but such dips into the supernatural are short and serve only to prove how some geological areas have collected strange tales over the years. The meat of this book is in the presentation of evidences for such oddities as Kangaroos in America, devil monkeys, black phantom panthers, striped American lions, napes, and giant catfish, as well as i...