On April 14, 2018 I went to Cecil County and explored four cemeteries, looking for graves I knew about and graves I didn’t. I had been planning this for about two months, and you never know what you’ll find until you go and look. The roots of my dad’s family come from what I jokingly … Continue reading Exploring Cemeteries in Cecil County
Author: Allyn Gibson
The writer of Diamond Comic Distributor's monthly PREVIEWS catalog, Allyn Gibson writes about comic books and toys and has his fingers on the pulse of the comics industry. Allyn also writes short fiction; his latest story, “The Ginger Kid” in Crazy 8 Press' ReDeus: Divine Tales (2012), is a tale of a pitching phenom and a long-suffering baseball team in a world where gods walk the Earth. Among Allyn's other credits are the acclaimed Star Trek short story “Make-Believe” in Star Trek: Constellations (2006) and the indescribable Doctor Who short story “The Spindle of Necessity” in Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership (2008). He has also penned articles for Star Trek Magazine and the London Evening Standard.
Tomorrow is a big day. In addition to Cecil Con, a small comic book convention in North East, Maryland, I’m going to visit four cemeteries in the area. My dad’s side of the family comes from what I call “the borderlands of Maryland and Pennsylvania”; there are Gibsons and Browns and Reynolds and Russells that … Continue reading Plans for a Cecil County Outing
Of late I have been experimenting with cheese and onions sandwiches. I mentioned back in March that, because of George Harrison’s 75th birthday, I rewatched Eric Idle’s The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. Harrison was a huge fan of Idle’s satire of the Beatles, and he even had a cameo as a reporter covering … Continue reading Cheese and Onions Experimentation
Friday night, following a week of deadlines and deadlines and more deadlines, I spent some time working on my website’s code. Two weeks ago, I wrote that I’d been fighting with the blog theme’s slider; the parent theme, Shoreditch, had a featured content section, but it didn’t slide. Instead, it paged with some controls. The … Continue reading Getting Closer
Last Friday, I was in Lynchburg, Virginia. What brought me from the snowy wastes of Pennsylvania — we’d had a snowstorm on Wednesday that dumped fifteen-ish inches and closed the office — and took me to south-central Virginia? I went to see Carbon Leaf on their 25th-anniversary tour. I’d seen them six days earlier at … Continue reading Carbon Leaf, Live in Lynchburg
A piece of WordPress coding that I thought would take about fifteen minutes ended up taking close to an hour and a half. I switched my blog theme recently from Twenty Seventeen (well, a child theme of it) to Shoreditch (again, a child theme of it, albeit one that I worked on in a flurry … Continue reading Fighting With WordPress
Until today I had never solved a Rubik’s Cube. Now I’ve done it twice. Solving a Rubik’s Cube was something that I never learned how to do. Or, never figured out how to do. I had Rubik’s Cubes, several of them, actually, and I’d twist them and turn them. The best I could do was … Continue reading Solution Time
When I got to work this morning and thought about my commute, I had the thought, “Yeah, that could have resulted in a fatality.” The situation… When I left home this morning, the sky was overcast and the air was raw, but there was no precipitation. I stopped at Royal Farms to get some gas, … Continue reading A Harrowing Moment on the Highway
Shamrock Fest is on Saturday in Washington, DC, on the grounds of RFK Stadium. I bought my ticket back in November, and today I saw the schedule. I already knew the line-up was a little on the thin side, with Shaggy and Sum 41 as the headliners. Looking at the schedule, I looks like I’m … Continue reading The Shamrock Fest Schedule
On New Year’s Day, the New Horizons probe, the first space probe to visit Pluto, will zip past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 which will become the furthest object in our solar system visited by a space probe. Unfortunately, 2014 MU69 isn’t an easy designation to remember, nor does it roll off the tongue, … Continue reading Ultima Thule
Sunday marked George Harrison’s 75th birthday, and in honor of his birthday I watched The Concert for George and, later in the day, Eric Idle’s The Rutles: All You Need As Cash, a satirical film based on the Beatles’ career that features Harrison in a small role as a journalist. I also shared the wonderfully … Continue reading I Have Always Thought in the Back of My Mind…
Lately, I’ve been working on a couple of projects. In the fall, I colorized a photograph of Swampoodle Grounds, Washington, DC’s baseball park of the 1880s. I liked working on that, and now I’m working on colorizing another old baseball photograph, this time of Babe Ruth and (future president) George H.W. Bush. The photograph was … Continue reading Projects In Progress