For some people Halloween is all year long. For people who like scary stories every issue of Weird Tales was the best of the best nearly ...

Halloween is coming up in a couple of days. What scares you? My friend Sherry told me once that what scared her more than anything was Walt ...

When I was a kid in the late '50s-early '60s I was just the right age for Famous Monsters Of Filmland magazine. It came out at a ti...

Hey there, Halloweenies...this is a special story I wrote some time ago. Hope you like it. El P. BROTHER GRIM’S BLOOD-RED RIDING HOOD A Hall...

I haven't laughed at a Dilbert strip in a long time, but I got a real big laugh out of this one. Click on the picture for full-size ima...

The ad says it, and quotes a reviewer: "There's hardly a body part that isn't mangled or lopped off, ground up or sliced throug...

Yesterday I showed you babies, today I show you babes. It's amazing what happens when you google "Halloween costumes." The th...

Today is the first day of annual teacher conferences, so all schools are closed. That means I get two days off.* Yippee. I spent part of t...

It's good to be Grandpa. A couple of years ago I wouldn't have said that, but now I think that way. It helps that I have a pair of g...

Every year a lot of people go to the emergency room of the nearest hospital complaining of pain in the chest. After some tests (expensive on...

Over a year ago we inherited some feral cats, who were hanging around our place. My wife, Sally, contacted No More Homeless Pets, who put us...

I was going through a drawer in my basement studio and came across an envelope full of old pictures, postcards and birthday cards. One postc...

Recently two friends of my wife went to Vancouver, BC, Canada, to get married. It was mostly symbolic, because when they returned the the U....

Good lord. Can it really have been 40 years since Star Trek first came on the air? A local movie critic just wrote in his weekly column tha...

Is it safe to come out yet? I've been hunkered in my bunker the past week or so, waiting for another 9/11-styled terror attack. In tryin...

I hate cell phones. I carry one, but hate it. Those phones have become a major distraction in our lives. There is also a matter of common co...

Thanks to Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson for not kowtowing to the Bush juggernaut that blew into Utah on Wednesday and Thursday of last...

©2006 The Pyramid Collection Click on picture for larger image. I was thumbing through a catalogue my wife got on Saturday. It's from Th...

School starts on Monday. Even without a calendar I'd always be able to tell when school is starting because the kids start hanging aroun...

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I gave the Fox show Prison Break one more chance, watching the second s...