Last week, Lynchburg’s minor league baseball team announced their new identity, abandoning the Hillcats moniker after about thirty years, give or take. Beginning this year, they are the Hill City Howlers. Hill City because Lynchburg is informally known as “the Hill City.” (It’s commonly said to be built on seven hills, like ancient Rome.) Howlers,Continue reading “A New Chapter Opens in Lynchburg Baseball History”
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Sherlock Holmes Vs. Frankenstein: The Novelization
Autumn, 1898. Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from the Burgomeister of Darmstadt, Germany. The town’s gravedigger was brutally murdered and one of his legs was surgically amputated. A little girl was the only witness, and she reported seeing a giant, hulking monster carry away the gravedigger. The Burgomeister’s concern is as much for the reputationContinue reading “Sherlock Holmes Vs. Frankenstein: The Novelization”
Van Helsing Revisited
Last year I found at Big Lots the collector’s edition DVD of Van Helsing. Came in a brown box, had a couple of extra discs that included some of the original Universal Monsters movies. It was, I think, five dollars, and since I hadn’t seen Van Helsing since the weekend it came out, I pickedContinue reading “Van Helsing Revisited”