Blog

Here you'll find those articles and pictures that have nothing, or at least little, to do with traveling to oddity. This is my life between the oddities...because sometimes it's just way more odd there. Also appalling. Includes the annual OTIS Halloween Blog.


2020

2020 OTIS Halloween Season (52 posts)
2020 State of the OTIS	10 Things About "Cursed Objects"	Smashed Man Cover Unveil	Ray Bradbury Artifacts

2019

2019 State of the OTIS	12 Things About 12 Nights
2019 OTIS Halloween Season (51 posts)	My Books Ripen in the Fall	St. Augustine	Podcasting Odd Things I've Seen

2018

2018 State of the OTIS
2018 OTIS Halloween Season (75 posts)	Ten Things About "Death and Douglas"	An Ocean-to-Ocean Odyssey	I'll Dig Cemeteries Til the Day I Die
OTIS Club Newsletter Issue 105	Witch City vs. PEM	NH-NY-PA Road Trip	The New York Grimpendium: Redux

2017

2017 State of the OTIS	2017 OTIS Halloween Season (38 posts)	Cover Unveil: Death and Douglas
I Sorta Know What You Did This Summer	A Decade of OTIS	Issue 52: OTIS Club Newsletter Thing	Goodbye, Yellow-Sided Home

2016

State of the OTIS 2016
2016 OTIS Halloween Season (39 posts)	Issue 7: OTIS Club Newsletter Thing	A 3,260-Mile Road Trip Among the Great Lakes	My New Book: A Season with the Witch
The Ghost of an Opinion	Let's Talk About the OTIS Club	Introducing the OTIS Club	NH to MD Road Trip o' Oddity

2015

2015 State of the OTIS
Nashua Holiday Stroll	2015 Halloween Season (39 Posts)	Didn't Mean to Have a Spooky Sunday	The Book Ends on Ray Bradbury's Home
Before the Cannibals: Walloomsac Inn, 1983	Coasting to Costa Rica	My Night at the Edgar Awards	Why is Poe so Cool? (MysteryCenter.com)
Driving the Desert	Strange Stuff From My Study 3	It Was Just a House	My Talks Are Cheap

2014

Happy New Weird	Christmas Could Learn from Halloween	Poe-TIS: Poe Things I've Seen
Poe-Land in Poe-Land	Poe-Land: The Introduction	Lovecraft Did It	If Within the Distant Aidenn
2014 OTIS Halloween Season (40 Posts)	My Study, My Sanctum	The Debut of Poe-Land	Picturing Poe
Have a Coke and a Smile	Our 1,621-Mile July Road Trip	Our 3,267-Mile June Road Trip	Unveiling the "Poe-Land" Cover

2013

2013 OTIS Halloween Season Blog (47 posts)	A Leather Grimpendium
Out to SeaQuest	Book Announcement: An Edgar Allan Poe Travelogue	Johnny Cash Has Never Been Here, Man	A Carnival Kind of Night
OTYS: Museo Del Inquisidor	Tewksbury Public Library Appearance	For Lack of a Moose	Chewing on Dinosaur Babies
Cavin' in Boston	Cask of Amontillado Wine Tasting Among the Bones	Ravens Don't Tweet	Edgar Allan Snow, aka the Poe-Man
Revisiting My Private Smithsonian	Chuck E. Cheese's: Where a Creep can be a Creep	Home is Where the Fright Is	A Grim Book in a Morbid Library

2012

A Krushing Nostalgia	Our Visit to Charleston, SC	2012 OTIS Halloween Season Blog (52 Posts)	Give Us More Space
My Humble Curiosity Cabinet	We Make Great Pets	My Days in Three Frames	A Cover's Worth 1000 Pages
Toddler in a Monster Museum	Forever Ray Bradbury	My Surprise Basement	Is It Halloween?
Why Everybody at Cheers Knows Your Name	Scary Monsters, Spooky Kids	Dream Trip: Iowa	Dead Wrong
Unholy Maggots	Dream Trip: Texas	Yellow Brick Road Trip	Bad-Ass Poe is All Out of Bubblegum
A Long Day on Long Island	The Absinthe is Always Greener

2011

2011 OTIS Halloween Season Blog (45 Posts)	In Progress: The New York Grimpendium	Goodwin Library Appearance	Tenney Castle Gatehouse Appearance
Reading and Drinking Dandelion Wine

2010

2010 OTIS Halloween Season Blog (35 Posts)	Blogging Christmas 2010	What, the Dickens?	Ghosts of Christmas Treats Past
ICE!: How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Hershey's Chocolate World (Christmas Edition)	Christmas Stowe-Away	8 Reasons Christmas Vacation is the Best Christmas Movie
The Christmas Loft	Better Late Than Nevergreen	December is an Alternate Universe	Christmas Light Festivals
Frosty the Woe-Man	This is Why Santa Flies: Our Christmas Road Trip	25 Links to Christmas	Harpers Ferry Ghost Town Christmas
Carrots Are for Reindeer	On Prancer	Merry Christmas 2010