The Aftermath

So we made it through. We survived All Hallow’s Eve. No ghouls nabbed us on the road to candy bag mecca, no witches flew down on their broomsticks to whisk us away to dump us in their bubbling cauldron, and no zombies feasted upon our flesh. In fact, it was one of the most bizarre […]

The Return of Halloween

So here we are again. We’re nearing the end of October, which means it’s nearly time to dress up and go door to door and ask for candy. Yep, Halloween is only two days away. My kids look forward to it every year(why wouldn’t they?), and I look forward to it as well. I didn’t […]

Off The Air

I’m not sure why this thought crossed my mind, but the other day I was thinking about television when I was kid. Growing up in the 80s television was still this thing that would eventually end at the end of the day. You could stay up late and watch Carson, Letterman, then after that there […]

“My lips feel like Cocoa Puffs”

Oh the things we do for a pretty smile. It was the end of 6th grade and I was told I needed braces. My teeth weren’t perfect, but they weren’t horrible. Still, my mom took me to the orthodontist and I was fitted with braces on my top and bottom teeth. The entire process lasted […]

My Childhood With Robin Williams

Don’t misconstrue that title to mean I knew Robin Williams. I have, in fact, never met the man. I mean, he was on my pajamas when I was 5 and my older brother wore a pair of suspenders based on Mork’s famous ones. But I didn’t know Robin Williams. I did indeed grow up with […]

Sunday Slag

It’s been a pretty lazy Sunday. I mean, I’ve done stuff. I watched some of a documentary about Divine called I Am Divine. I really liked what I saw but had to shut it off as the kiddos started to wake up and they had just gotten into Divine’s history with “The Cockettes” in the […]

Down In Front: Sunday Night at the Drive-In

There are a few things that still exist today that are a direct link to our past; both the past we exist in and the one that existed before us. Cultural significance can be debated all you want(there are plenty of folks who love that s**t.) For me, in order for something to have cultural […]

Odd Thoughts and Mild Insanity

I had a dream once my dog turned into a giant snake. I looked down and what was once my cute miniature schnauzer was a python. He crawled up my body and started licking my face like he would often do in his salt and pepper terrier form. That was it. No more dream. I […]

Spring Break

We’ve arrived at that time of the year where many Midwesterners flock to Florida and pretend they’re not Midwesterners. College kids drinking dangerously close to mental annihilation and exhibiting behavior that would’ve made Nero blush. But here in Jhubner73 headquarters we don’t do that kind of nonsense. What’s spring break mean for us? Not a […]

Nightmares and other great memories

I once had this dream that I was inside Dracula’s castle. It wasn’t Bela Lugosi’s, Frank Langella’s, Chris Sarandon’s, Gary Oldman’s, or even Leslie Nielson’s Dracula. It was the castle in the old NES game ‘Castlevania’. It was quite gorgeous from what I can remember. Huge, curtained windows, sprawling rooms, cathedral-like ceilings, an old grand […]