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Tag Archives: Merrick
To Nanny, On Her 91st Birthday
Arrive. DING-donggggg. Shuffle shuffle inside. Tentative door open that got less tentative once she saw who it was. Echoey voices in the hallway leading up to the kitchen, where we’d say our hellos and have The Punch – filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Food, Miscellaneous, Women
Tagged banker's lamps, basements, Body Buddies cereal, bomb shelters, Chip, Christina Applegate, coffee, Cujo, dining rooms, doorbells, growing old is not for sissies, Kelly Bundy, Married with Children, Meadowbrook Parkway, Merrick, meteorologists, Nanny, New York, offices, pink roses, Pop-Pop, punch bowls, sherbet, shunning pork, staticky televisions, stuffed mushrooms, yellowed paper
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New York VERSUS Colorado!
Do NOT mock my pro/con lists! ~ Rory Gilmore So a few weeks ago, I revisited New York. My home state, the place I lived for nearly 36 years. It had been nearly two years since I’d been there. Thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Family, Food, Friends, Lists, Manitou, Miscellaneous, Restaurants, Women
Tagged altitude, Amendment 64, Atlantic Ocean, bagels, Benny Blanco's, Blue Moon, bridges, Chinese food, Colorado, commuting, Dabba Mints, Denver, Facebook, Hurricane Sandy, Josh, La Piazza, LNK, Long Island, Manitou Springs, Merrick, MMJ, mountains, Nassau, New York, obnoxious drivers, oceans, pizza, pro/con lists, Reefer Madness, Rockville Centre, Rocky Mountains, root beer, Rory Gilmore, Sammy's wedding, Schenectady, Suffolk, Townhouse Lounge, vegetarian, Waldo Canyon fire, weed, wine
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Breaking Butterflies
And what I know is that everything I touch just turns to dust … ~ Craig Manning When I was in second grade, I was pretty prone to misbehavior. One evening, my mother caught me trying to forge her signature … Continue reading
Salem’s Lot & Sleepless Nights
I have been terrified of horror for as long as I can remember. Ghouls, mainly, when I was younger, scared the heck out of me. And even at five, I could tell that part of vampires’ power came from their … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Movies, Supernatural :o
Tagged Adventureland, Beverly Cleary, Buffy Innocence, buried alive, Eerie and Creepy comics, Farmingdale, ghouls, Hempstead, Home Depot, horror movies, little brother scratching at the window, Long Island, made for television movies, Merrick, Nickelodeon, parents, peach paint, Ramona the Brave, Salem's Lot, Saw 3, suburbia, The Adventures of Black Beauty, The Vanishing, vampires
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This House…Is Clean?
(And so the hauntings conclude (FOR NOW), not with a bang, but a whimper (TM my boy T.S.). So when I was living in my second Merrick apartment (the one before the current Levittown one), I remember trying to download … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Supernatural :o, TV
Tagged anthropomorphize, Appetite for Destruction, Bloodhound virus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Calvin and Hobbes, Children of Bodom, David Byrne, Gilmore Girls, Haunting, iPod, iTunes, Like Humans Do, LOST, Merrick, mix CD, monkey movies, Rilo Kiley, T. S. Eliot, Tara Maclay, Veronica Mars, Windows Media Player
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Tweety Two And Tweety Three Want Seconds
You son of a bitch. You moved the cemetery but you left the bodies, didn’t ya? You son of a bitch. You left the bodies and you only moved the headstones. You only moved the headstones. Lies! Lies! ~ The … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Supernatural :o
Tagged biker block party, cats, Chip and Doc, Craig T. Nelson, Doctor von Rockenstein, fish bandits, ghosts, Haunting, I am the gatekeeper are you the keymaster, Levittown, Merrick, mother/daughter, Oneonta, plaques, Poltergeist, screaming, territory issues, You only moved the headstones
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And I Don’t Even Like The Mall!*
So most of you know that I have no sense of direction. As in, it is absent from my being. It’s not a matter of paying attention; it’s not a matter of practice; it’s not a matter of doing fewer … Continue reading
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