Tag: garlic

• Waiting For All Hallow’s Eve VI: “A Light Hearted Look at Demonic Bloodsuckers”

  There are creatures that can crawl up a wall, head down, in an upside down position (like a spider), turn themselves into bats, rats, moths, mists, and clouds of dust.  They ‘live’ by sucking the blood of a live person.  We call these demon-like beings vampires.  They would not make very good neighbors, although, I’ve…

  patrickjegan

  September 19, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Fables & Folklore, Films and filmmaking, Ghost Story, History, Melancholy Thoughts, non-fiction, Religion, Short Fiction

  “Interview with a Vampire”, Anne Rice, Bela Lugosi, Brad Pitt, Bram Stoker, caged graves, Christopher Lee, crucifix, garlic, Montague Summers, Romania, shape-shifting, the undead, Transylvania, vampires, Vlad the Impaler

• Travels 16: The Rest Stop: An Encounter with Rex and Jenny

  One long-standing rule of life I generally live by is not to form serious long-term relationships with people you meet at highway rest stops.  Today, I made an exception to this tenet and I bonded with an older guy named Rex and the girl, Jenny, who sat at his feet. We had been ripping down I-5…

  patrickjegan

  October 23, 2013

  The RV Life, Travels

  California, dog named Jenny, garlic, Hank Williams, Interstate 5, John Steinbeck, Olive Groves, Rest Stops, singer named Rex, stolen lyrics book, true old-fashioned country music, Willie Nelson, Woody Guthrie