Vote.
It’s time to save democracy. Go vote. Straight-ticket Democrat. We have a window, a small one, but a window nonetheless.
The window closes when the polls do. The President’s party has both houses of Congress. It’s imperative we flip the House and the Senate to check his reckless ambitious.
Vote. It’s what Captain America would want.
Take a look at what I found in the wilds of an Illinois grocer recently.
Ever run into a work whose title tells you all you need to know about the work? Snakes on a Plane, an album titled “Greatest Hits” or “Live!” or John Dies At The End.
Of course, there’s still surprises, the title cannot communicate the entirety of the work, but sometimes the title tells you the big picture of the work succinctly.
With the right title, an audience can know if the work is a perfect fit or not. I found one recently that turned out to be a perfect fit for me: Dracula vs. Hitler by Patrick Sheane Duncan.
This morning, an article about the history of links between Metallica and Cthulhu was posted over at Black Gate; you can see it here: https://www.blackgate.com/2017/05/01/cthulhu-in-metallica/
If you’re here from Black Gate, welcome! I had a few thoughts on the latest Metallica album beyond the scope of the Black Gate article that I thought I’d share here.
To any of my loyal readers (ha ha, I can imagine such a thing exists) who have checked, you may have noticed a distinct lack of activity for the last year-plus. I don’t have much of an excuse or explanation beyond “life”. Day to day life has a way of sapping energy and time and other resources that one would normally apply to beloved pastimes. And it has over the last year or so.
My earliest distinct Star Wars memory was seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater; the previous movies I just always knew So, it was with much joy that I returned to a theater to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens on opening night. Here’s a brief, mostly spoiler-free review.
My first published work has gone live at rpgnow.com. It’s a short story in Achtung! Cthulhu: Dark Tales from the Secret War titled “The Heart of the Sea”. Check it out!
Buy it at Modiphius!
Look at that! My name, on a book!
The Hessian Goes Home is a short series of blog posts I did on a former blog; I’m moving them there for posterity.
Part I: https://mickgall.com/2012/02/10/the-hessian-goes-home-part-1/
Part II: https://mickgall.com/2012/02/17/the-hessian-goes-home-part-2-the-church/
Part III: https://mickgall.com/2012/02/24/the-hessian-goes-home-anglicization/
Since covering those two landmarks, it was time to go to the main, the town itself. The official family records state the John Henry Gall was born in the city of Buchenburg, Vohl, district of Kassel, on 24 March 1834.
During our travels to see where the family came from, we saw the small town nearby Buchenberg (marked with a “B”) where John Henry was from. This nearby town was called Kirchlotheim (marked with a “C”).
The family records we were sent by our diligent cousins said that Buchenberg did not have its own church, so they traveled to Kirchlotheim for marriages, baptisms, funerals, etc.
The Hessian Goes Home is a short series of blog posts I did on a former blog; I’m moving them there for posterity.
Part I: https://mickgall.com/2012/02/10/the-hessian-goes-home-part-1/
Part II: https://mickgall.com/2012/02/17/the-hessian-goes-home-part-2-the-church/
Part III: https://mickgall.com/2012/02/24/the-hessian-goes-home-anglicization/
For my birthday, we planned a trip back to the homeland. As I mentioned in this blog’s very first post, the first Gall in America came from near the city of Kassel in the state of Hesse, Germany.
Mick Gall 