Bitter Wintery Blues

Hey all,

So, can you believe the north east got hit with a freak (I might be exaggerating) winter storm and it's only October, and Halloween's tomorrow! It's crazy that a storm like this hit so early. In all my years of existence, I have never seen snow this soon. The earliest at least here in NYC is early to mid-November. Of course, we get cold temperatures, so most of us here are bundled up or in the first stages of winter preparedness. However, this year, it seems as though we been preparing a lot sooner as cold temperatures arrived faster, and then this snow storm!

And here's the kicker! It's sunny today, as I am sure it is over the rest of the north east, and there's practically little or no snow left on the ground! The only indication that anything happened is the snow still on the roofs of buildings and cars. It's still pretty cold out, so that there. Whew! If it were 90 degrees I might go crazy!

But seriously, yesterday was the beginning of wintery discontent. I don't enjoy the winter, or the summer, no, let me restate that. I hate the extremes of both seasons. I always prefer a nice mid-combination of both; although, if I had to choose, I prefer summer temperatures and climate. Some place tropical though.

Despite the ugly weather yesterday, I still went outdoors - first to downtown Manhattan then to the Bronx. What a trip! Freezing temperatures that my hands were freezing even after I put on gloves. The snow came down in large clumps and stuck to ever thing. I honestly didn't think it would be this bad, but I guess I was wrong. But, the snow didn't last for long as it turned to sleet then pure rain! I was miserable during my excursion downtown. People were out in full force though and that's what you have to love about New Yorkers, we don't really give a damn! We'll complain but we'll get stuff done no matter what conditions are like. However, personally, I hate being cold!

Then I get to the Bronx to visit a good friend of mine, and unfortunately, I was still freezing. The best part, wouldn't you know it, there was no heat in his building! That sounds just about right because there was no heat in my building as well. Damn it! We sat around, talked politics, and how freakin' crazy this weather had gotten so suddenly. All the while, my feet and hands were icy cold.

I got home later that evening and the heat was still absent. No surprise there. What the hell Mr. Super? Why don't you turn on the heat? Why is it that you only turn it on for an hour at a time and/or only at odd hours of the evening? Ahhh, winter is such a great, bone-chilling, miserable time of the year, don't you think so? I know that further upstate and up north the storm has been much worse then what I'm complaining about here. I hearing story of power outages in certain areas and that is just horrible. With no electricity or running water in some cases, the conditions are literally below standards. Yet, I envy and admire those who endure under such undesirable extremes. Real troopers!

Well, that's it for now. Stay safe and warm out there!

October Horror Movies!

Well, it's October - as if we didn't know, and SyFy, The Chiller Network and AMC have been showing horror, paranormal and anything else under the sun that is October/Halloween related. What Fun!

Today I saw The Midnight Meat Train, Identity and The Reaping. Yeah, I didn't do much expect watch movies and revise a short story.

And, I was looking after my sis. (She was a little under the weather this weekend.)

I saw The Midnight Meat Train and Identity before, but The Reaping was new for me. Fairly good films. I think Midnight-Train was a good film, very creepy and visceral. It could be another title I add to my DVD collection.

Speaking of adding to my DVD collection, I recently found out the The Return of the Living Dead was released on Blu-Ray/DVD combo. Hmm.. maybe another possible grab.

Also, and this could be a fine addition to my collection, the Alien series will be released on Blu-Ray by the end of this month. Woohoo!

Since SyFy and The Chiller Network are having their own horror, paranormal, etc. marathons then I should have one too! I'll be watching my zombie movie collection during the final week of October leading up to Halloween. I have a large collection and I may not get through all of them, but I'll get through some. My favorites are on the top of the list.

So stay tuned because my next few posts will contain what I'm watching, my whole zombie movie collection, and my personal favorites.

Until then enjoy the picture below, Zombies!!

Bonus if you can tell me which movie this picture is from!