This is my first blog, and I'm just gonna write this off the cuff. I'm a tattoo artist by trade, and a creative writing student part time. I'm also the fix-it guy around the house and around the shop. Today, for example, I spent several hours repairing my wife's twenty-year-old Maytag dryer; the thing was squealing and squawking. I don't know much about dryers, but the internet is just incredible for getting information, and I was able to find and download a service manual from http://appliancedigest.com/ and step-by-step instructions for disassembling the dryer from http://www.applianceaid.com/. I bought all the parts from a local appliance parts store for $80 and put it all back together, and Bob's your uncle, as the Brits say. I replaced the drive belt, polished and lubed the drum rollers and idler pulley, and replaced the teflon drum bearings. The dryer's never been quieter, my wife says.
After the dryer was fixed, I relaxed with a nice sandwich and a beer (Weyerbacher's Insanity Ale-awesome!) and perused a survey of supernatural fiction entitled The Evolution of the Weird Tale by S.T Joshi—specifically, I began reading the chapter about H.P Lovecraft. The interesting thing about Lovecraft is that he was a skeptic who refused to believe anything that couldn't be proven by the science of his day. That means that he was an atheist and that he did not believe in any sort of soul, or an immaterial afterlife, or ghosts, or spirits of any kind. He also did not believe that beings from another planet or universe, if they existed, would be anything like human beings here on Earth. We Earthlings are unique to our planet and solar system and exist according to immutable physical laws. Or something like that.
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