Lights in the Sky: San Francisco Edition
Posted: September 17, 2014 Filed under: Writing Leave a commentBay area residents were startled early Friday (09/13/14) morning to see a mysterious fireball shooting over the sky. Multiple witnesses described the object as a white light with fog or smoke billowing out of it.
“I am used to seeing planes early in the morning with lights, but this was different,” said one bystander. “This had something coming out of it, it wasn’t just the light. I could see it spraying something.”
Witnesses in Nevada and Oregon also reported seeing the object. The U.S. Air Force confirmed that there were no missile launches from the closest base – Vandenberg A.F.B. – that morning.
Local astronomers reported that it was a meteorite. But that doesn’t explain the spraying. So what was this object and – more importantly – what was it spraying over a California town last week?
Glade’s marketing campaign for its new Moonlight Breeze scent has gone horribly awry.
Fun Fact of the Day: RoboCop Trivia
Posted: September 15, 2014 Filed under: Writing Leave a commentBecause the bottom half of the RoboCop suit was too bulky to fit into a squad car, every time you see RoboCop driving in the film, he’s not wearing pants.
I dropped my badge – could you help me find it, Miss? It’s shaped like a wrench.
New Mexico UFO Conference – Oct. 4, 2014
Posted: September 12, 2014 Filed under: Bizarre, Nerd HQ, UFOs | Tags: APICON 2014, New Mexico UFO Conference 2014 Leave a commentThe 2014 New Mexico UFO Conference will be held in Rio Rancho, NM next month. Not only does it feature some pretty awesome UFO-book authors as speakers, the evening will end with an after-dark field trip to a “secret” air base near Albuquerque to witness mysterious test flights. Not sure how secret the Manzano-Sandia testing facility can be if I know about it, but I still want to go. 🙂
New Mexico: Come for the Hatch chilies, stay for the UFO lectures.
My UFO Story: AKA Comet 289
Posted: September 4, 2014 Filed under: Nerd HQ, UFOs | Tags: Blaze DestinyBoom, Comet 289/Blanpain, UFO Leave a commentI was in my backyard last Thursday night (08/28/14) wrangling dogs, when I saw the proverbial “lights in the sky.” At first, I thought it was the moon until I realized that the moon was shining in the sky behind me. I was standing there in the dark, completely transfixed by this thin crescent of light glowing against the night sky. Suddenly, it shrank down into a single orb of intense light and… vanished.
I stood there for a full minute afterward, completely unnerved and wondering if I had just had my first UFO sighting. I was half stoked and half freaked out.
Tragically – for me, at least – there is evidence that what I witnessed was most likely the perihelion of a rare comet called Comet 289/Blanpain. Which is pretty disappointing. If you’re going to witness a mysterious comet, you’re really hoping it will be named something more dramatic, like Frankenstein Thunderhammer or Blaze Destiny’Boom. *Sigh*
Professor Frink: “That comet is headed straight for us, with the fire and the impact and the 100% chance of pain… pain in the glavin!”
Note: Blaze Destiny’Boom is officially now my stripper name.
Weirdo Book Club – American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
Posted: August 31, 2014 Filed under: Bigfoot, Bizarre, Cryptozoology, Writing | Tags: American Monsters, American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Bigfoot, Legends and Sightings, Linda S. Godfrey 2 CommentsI’m introducing a new feature to NFHIFW: book reviews. For weirdos*.
*And by weirdos, I mean people who like to read about Big Foot, UFOs, Nessie and Roswell and anything else that would intrigue Fox Mulder. In short, people like me. And clearly you, since you’re reading this blog.
First up on the Weirdo Bookshelf is American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America by Linda S. Godfrey. This book has it all: sea serpents, giant bats and monkey men. Godfrey covers the monsters of America from pre-Columbian times to modern-day sightings. Plus, check out the lifelike illustrations. (And by lifelike, I mean inadvertently hilarious.)
A werewolf, an alien and Bigfoot walk into a bar…
UFO Spotted Over Houston?
Posted: August 19, 2014 Filed under: Writing 2 CommentsSo this happened last night in Houston.
Note to self: stock up on tin foil for hats.
UFOs over Texas? I’m not saying it was aliens. I’m not saying it wasn’t aliens. However, I am saying – let the intergalactic record show – I am not into probe play. Thank you.
Cronut Update: The is Not a Wang, You Perv
Posted: August 12, 2014 Filed under: Bizarre, Miscellaneous Leave a commentThe controversial baker who brought us last year’s food craze (the Cronut) just introduced his latest gourmet goodie – the peanut butter pretzel – which looks like a pastry penis. That you’re supposed to dip into a buttery sauce and put in your mouth.
You had me at buttery sauce.
People are already lining up around the block to get their hands on it and genital jokes abound. Baker Dominique Ansel, however, is shocked, shocked I say, to hear his latest described as phallic. He claims that it is supposed to look like a lobster. Riiiiiiiight. A lobster.
I’ll take a dozen.
Have a Coke and A Smile…
Posted: August 6, 2014 Filed under: Ghosts | Tags: Dana Barrett, Ghostbusters, the Gatekeeper of Gozer, Zuul 2 Comments
Even the Gatekeeper of Gozer has to watch her figure.
#StormtrooperProblems
Posted: July 23, 2014 Filed under: Writing Leave a commentWhy did the Stormtrooper buy an iPhone?
He couldn’t find the Droid he was looking for.
Aliens on the Moon?
Posted: July 19, 2014 Filed under: Bizarre, Miscellaneous, Nerd HQ, UFOs | Tags: Aliens on the Moon, moon documentary, Robert Kiviat, Syfy Leave a commentI am equal parts skeptical and stoked about the upcoming documentary Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed, airing tomorrow night (Sunday, July 20) on the SyFy Channel.
On one hand, it does feature commentary from Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, as well as rare mission photos purporting to show evidence of structures and crafts on the lunar surface.
But on the other hand, the show was produced by Robert Kiviat. This is the man who brought us the absurdity that was Alien Autopsy, the “documentary” from 1995 that was so poorly faked I expected it to have blooper reels.
Oh, who am I kidding? They had me at “aliens.”
Pictured: Credibility.
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