Birth of a Scratchman!

Oh Blood!  Oh Thunder!  It CAN'T be that time of year again!  How could I have forgotten His Infernal Majesty's birthday!  Cake!  I must bake a cake!  Wait, maybe I can get that Buddy guy from Jersey.  Perhaps if I can apply my darkest powers of persuasion,  I can commission him to bake an extreme cake with a Muppet theme.  What?  I don't judge, I just torment.

By all the tolling bells in Hell, I haven't even bought a gift!  What do you buy the Prince of Darkness who hates everything?  I'm thinking a VISA gift card.  Toby, be a good death worm and please don't get under hoof!  Daddy has too much to do, no time to do it and ALL of eternity to suffer for screwing up! Wait, what are you doing?  What is that you're punching up on the Die-Pad?  Ohhhhhhhhh.  Thank Darkness!  It's not the Lord Below's birthday it's the 100th anniversary of Devil Lake in Wisconsin (story here).  What a relief!  There was NO WAY I was going to be able to book a table at Olive Garden this late in the day.

I should really put the Prince's birthday in my calendar.  Every Halloween I get the date mixed up with his TRUE birthday and make a fool of myself.  Oh well, thank you Toby for saving me from myself yet again.

But that reminds me.  When is Mother's Day?

-- Brackish

Talk about a Conflict of Interest...

Many actor's in Hollywood have done projects they are not proud of. Just ask Jennifer Aniston who starred in one of the "Leprechaun" sequels. Sometimes they need the money, other times they just don't know any better.

Such it is with author's as well. When Stephen King wrote the 672 page "Insomnia", he didn't know that it would actually cure your insomnia. No movie offers were in the works so he wrote another novel in between brushing his teeth and making coffee.

Our Father Below tried his hand at ghost writing himself. And we are ashamed to admit, that it was...a bible (story here). We hadn't seen it for over 359 years. We searched on eBay hoping to find it before word of it got out, but to no avail. In September the Czech Republic began displaying, the "Codex Gigas" a.k.a. "The Devil's Bible" in the National Library.

Hey, souls were a little scarce that month over 800 years ago. Satan had a quota to fill, so when a Benedictine monk asked for help to write a bible he was already stuck between a rock and a hot place. When you get desperate you never know what you might end up doing. You might even write a blog.

Brackish