Somewhere in Nicola Bryant's attic is a portrait of a withered crone, Dorian Gray-style.

"The Sea Devils", please.  I've come to realize that I don't care much for large swaths of the Pertwee era, and my marathon has stalled out.  I need a kick in the pants so I can start moving on to better stuff.

*Ctrl-f distributor*

Many, many years ago, a friend and I went to his girlfriend's house for dinner.  We were already stoned when we got there, and proceeded to pound PBRs during dinner.  This led to impaired decision-making, and we decided to play the Iron Chef Drinking Game (which basically consisted of taking a drink whenever Floor…

Hordalands Doedskvad is a great album.

Obituary - Immortal Visions
Burzum - Enhver til Sitt
Rigor Mortis - Bodily Dismemberment
Besatt - Fallen
Asphyx - The Herald

It's not an irrational fear, since it happens to me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Truth.

I read all the Henry Huggins and Ramona books (recently revisited with Manic Tomlet #1, and still completely awesome), and a lot of Judy Blume, but they were just side dishes to my main course:

@LurkyMcLurkerson I don't know where you are in MD, but Colora Orchards and Milburn Orchards in Cecil County grow some damned fine peaches.

Morbid Angel - Lord of All Fevers and Plagues
Blutnebel - Geheimnis des Stahls
The Ghastly Ones - Grave Dig Her
Horchata - Living Room
Incubus - Sadistic Sinner

I think broomhandle Mausers are neat-looking.  But then again I think Borchardts are neat too.

Once, when Mrs. Manic Tom and I were reading in bed, I looked up and commented, "I didn't know house centipedes could crawl on the ceiling."  Just as she looked up, it fell directly on the bed.  Fortunately, the subsequent thrashing around as she exited the bed resulted in a small pile of disarticulated legs and a…

It's high strawberry season around here, so I made James Beard's recipe for strawberry shortcake.  It was so good I ate the saliva-saturated debris the Manic Tomlets left on their plates.

Megadeth - Into the Lungs of Hell
Vultos Vociferos - Sob a Face Oculta de Baphomet
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
Moonreich - En Préparant L'assaut
Demilich - When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water

Burt Kwouk was in "Four To Doomsday".

16 months is way, way too early to start worrying.  Our pediatrician only looks for three words (other than mama and dada) by 18 months.

I've never experienced a huge difference in times based only on temperature/humidity.  Picking my way through icy patches and snowdrifts is what slows me down.

So pure, so cold.

Isis - Hall of the Dead
The Bomboras - She Kills Me
Throneum - Freedom With Fires of Hell
Slayer - Criminally Insane
Darkspace - Dark 1.3