Hey! Noticed you're a Genesis veteran. I had a couple of things published there myself back in the dark ages.

"Fright Night" is the balls!

"The master will kill you for this! But not fast! Slowly, oh so slowwwlly."

How great. We need to invent a new term for that. I'm nominating "Saturday Nightmarable," in loving homage to the defunct "Saturday Nightmares" on USA back in the 80s.

That was a great night of TV: A bad 70s horror flick and episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Hitchhiker," and/or "The Ray Bradbury Theater."

Ooh, ooh...how 'bout "Elviriffic"? I liked Saturday Nightmares more, but this one rolls off the tongue a little better.

I am very impressed with your writing abilities and your creative imagery. Of course, I also appreciate your perceptions on food and the locale as well.

Happy Halloween!

Quotes for the day:

"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes." - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist,(1795-1881)

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." - François de la Rochefoucauld, French classical author, (1613-1680)

"...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King, American Writer, (b.1947)

"GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear." - Ambrose Bierce, American writer, journalist and editor, (1842-1914)

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself." - Charles Dickens, English novelist, (1812-1870)

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet, playwright and essayist, (1861-1941)

"The Bat that flits at close of Eve

Has left the Brain that won't believe.

The Owl that calls upon the Night

Speaks the Unbeliever's fright." - William Blake, English poet, painter and engraver. (1757-1827)

Hi, Clint. Great to hear from you. So, I take it from your tag list that you're a Twin Peaks fan? Is that a reference to the TV show? (Ya know, you just gotta ask, because a lot of misunderstandings and confused looks can be avoided. As for me, I'm taking about the Mark Frost and David Lynch TV series.) The reason I ask is that I just bought the Gold Box series on DVD, which includes the original U.S. pilot, so if you want to compare notes ...

"There's a fish in the perculator!"

P.S. If you're not referencing the TV show, then never mind.

"The owls are not what they seem."

Hey, just wanted to say hi, see how things were going. I wanted to tell you I got to spend a week last summer eating Chef Bricker's cooking. He came to Gatlinburg with my new church's youth group and he was our chef for the week. I didn't place where I new him from until Thursday and we got there on Monday! He's also my senior pastor's brother and our worship leader's dad. Bricker is kind of like Rockey here. I'd like to chat but I'd rather not leave my contact info on a message board. You can hit me on myspace if you want, myspace.com/agrubster. Talk to you soon! Amanda

I agree, it has been an obscene amount of time. I just emailed one of Jeff's kids today. I don't see him as often as I see his kids, two are in my youth group and I see them at least twice a week. My little one is now taller than me and she's very proud of that. School is going very well for her first year of junior high, I think she might finish with straight A's but I won't know for sure until tomorrow. She's just as stupid busy as I am, she bowl's (she's bowled two 200 games in the last couple months and finished first in the City Tournament), she taking horse-back riding lessons, she plays the bass clarinet in the band, runs track and cross-country. This is starting to sound like a Christmas letter. :) I'm a proud mama, what can I say. We've had a lot of really cool stuff happen in the last year or so, so things have been pretty amazing. Let me know how things have been going with you! It appears you've certainly been busy since we last talked. Have you been back to Southminster at all? Talk to you later, Amanda