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Today is National Ghost Hunting Day!
Today is the last Saturday in September and that makes it National Ghost Hunting Day. While Iowa City is not generally known as a hot spot for haunts, there are a few places in town which you could call a little spooky. These include a place called Gaslight Village and the Black Angel. You can…
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Reblogging “Stop Me If You Heard This One Before”
I’m reblogging the post “Stop Me If You Heard This One Before” because making the same mistake over and over and over again is so common. That’s why you see this joke so often: I don’t ever make the same mistake twice. I make it 4-5 times just to be sure. It’s sad but true—this…
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Funny Thing Happened on the Bigfoot Trail
By now, everyone has seen the story about the Bigfoot sighted in Damariscotta, Maine. The local police found out way too fast that it was just a guy in a costume. An interesting sidelight was that the people in Damariscotta (Damariscottamans? Damariscottites? Damariscottimanians?) all came together to make sure friends and neighbors were safe from…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: “They Came From Beyond Space”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” What I noticed last night while watching this movie was that I didn’t check the clock nearly as much I generally do with Svengoolie show movies. I don’t know what that means, other than dementia can progress in…
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Special Remarks on Upcoming Svengoolie Show Movie: “Trilogy of Terror”
This is an unusual situation for us because this Saturday the Svengoolie Show movie will be Trilogy of Terror—which we saw in May of 2024 and which I did a rather semi-serious review. That was before I actually started doing the fake reviews which I think are funnier and more fun to write. However, there…
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Reblogging Parody vs Satire on Old X-File Show
I’m reblogging this partly because I think it’s still funny and partly because I could no longer find the company on the web which called itself “ALT FUELS, Inc.” and used the slogan “Waste is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” I’m pretty sure I didn’t hallucinate that. After looking around a little further I found…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: “The Raven”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” The 1935 movie “The Raven” starred Bela Lugosi as the evil surgeon, Dr. Richard Vollin and Boris Karloff as the equally evil Edmond Bateman who team up in this film loosely based on the story by the writer…
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Update on the Little Jumping Frog
Last night, Sena never heard the little frog jumping against the window well glass. But this morning Sena surprised herself and the little frog who has somehow gotten in and out of our window well a couple of times (supposedly). It was hiding in the mulch under the tree in our front yard. Sena was…
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House of Svengoolie Movie” “The Land Unknown”
I saw the Sven Squad hosted 1957 low-budget film, “The Land Unknown” last night and one of my favorite characters was Tyronasaurus Tex, Tyrone for short. This guy in a rubber suit called attention to the dinosaur’s knobby knees. Tyrone got a little too close to the expedition’s helicopter and got a superficial slice wound.…
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Looking for Pareidolia and Other Illusions!
So, yesterday, Sena was sure she saw a robin perched and pressing itself against a tree in the outlot past our back yard. This was after a rainfall. I couldn’t see it. She had to guide me to look where she saw it. I didn’t see a bird, and thought it was an irregular patch…
