Been a tough couple weeks. Just the usual. Things are a little blue here since the Spousal Unit got laid off. It’s really, really hard to keep working through the sads, so pretty much everything was late. But I did it! Here is a My Messy Desk, and an Old and Spooky.
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Okay, this isn’t spooky. Not even a little. But since this has become my main blog, this is where I’m putting it. Pbbbbt.
I now have three wildly different YouTube channels that really satisfy me creatively. I’m at capacity, so this will be the last one. I just had this idea I couldn’t pass up: an old-fashioned weblog, where you share cool links–but for YouTube. Yes, this channel exists solely to point to other channels.
I have always loved helping people discover new things. In my 20s in Portland, Oregon, I was the person who knew all the cool shops, and where you could find just about anything. Legal, anyway. I’m useless when it comes to crime.
Here is the thing. I hope you find something new to enjoy. I have a lot in the hopper, on all different kinds of subjects. Spooky stuff included!
About a year ago, I started working on a bunch of stuff. Among them was a retro-horror channel called Old and Spooky, where I would discuss 20th century horror. I was almost done with my first video, when disaster struck. Disaster named ADHD. I accidentally deleted my data, and thanks to Microsoft (it’s complicated, but they suck) I could only restore a tiny amount.
I was devastated. I couldn’t look at it for months.
Then I started My Messy Desk, which is a whole lot of fun. Problem is, there’s a lot of downtime while I wait for things to dry or cure or whatever, and I don’t have much else to do. I decided to work on Old and Spooky during that downtime. It felt great. It feels great. And now, the first video is out.
It’s about one of my all-time faves: Dan Curtis. If you don’t know who that is, I bet you do know Dark Shadows and the Kolchak movies, right? Well that’s Dan Curtis.
Here is my inaugural video. My reading is a little stiff, but that will get better with time. Overall, I’m pretty proud of this. *flexes*

Another shadowbox this week, and it’s a doozy. Well, the outcome was pretty simple–though I really like it! It’s just that the journey to get there was…complicated. Mostly mold-making, because that’s always time-consuming and complicated. But soooo worth it! I will be using this little guy forever.
Tags: #crafts #art #ghosts #halloween
