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Her Eyes Are Wrong
June 29, 2008

The picture is in a gold frame and
and it’s hanging in a basement in a little room with a coal shoot door that won’t stay nailed shut where I used to play as a child.
One year I pulled the picture down, turned it over and saw written on the back in dark red ink:
“Her eyes are [...]

How Sweet It Is
November 5, 2007

 
I have so many wonderful Halloween Memories…
this is one of them
and it concerns:
Lizzie Borden
Today I read about a Lizzie Borden Halloween Prop that costs THOUSANDS of dollars.
Robot Lizzie swings an Ax up and down.
Sure, whatever.
When I was a kid this family had a Haunted House set up in their basement and the Dad used to dress up [...]