Freaky, baby!

Darkness scared the crap out of me.

mrbig1316 was right...don't watch it when you're home alone. *shudder*

I'm still not sure if I liked the way it was told. Personally, I want to connect with characters and like them in order to care if they die or not. I recognize that, as part of the horror genre, caring is sort of moot (unless it involves me caring whether or not Paris Hilton dies, at which point I do care...please let her die). Still, though; I want to care.

By the end I didn't care if I cared. That movie freaked me the hell out.

Which is why, of course, I followed it by reading North Carolina ghost stories and mysteries.

Naturally.

And scaring myself even worse. I had to read about The Lost Colony just to calm myself down to go to bed. (And the damn dog refused to cuddle. Dang it!) And the story about Marshal Ney, bravest of the brave of Napoleon's guys (which I am so copying and sending to zeplum, because it's just a freaky story) helped calm me as well.

The story of the 7-foot creature in the NC foothills that slaughtered hunting dogs and made their bodies disappear did *not* ease my mind though.

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In the midst of reading ghosty stuff last night, it hit me that, while North Carolinians and Virginians definitely would know about The Lost Colony, I wasn't sure if anyone else did. It's a story that is intriguing and exciting and should be shared with those that *don't* know it. So...take the poll!

[Poll #508008]

The Lost Colony

The Lost Colony, Roanoke, VA

by Miland Brown

The first effort made by the English to establish a colony in America, occurred in the late sixteenth century, at Roanoke Island. Starting in 1584 efforts were made to explore the east coast of North America as far south as Spanish claims. It was in 1587 that a permanent colony was finally created. However great this accomplish was for the colonists and England, it proved to be one of the greatest American mysteries when the colony was discovered abandoned in 1590.

( A colony is only 'lost' when every attempt is made to find them...was that the case? )

My jaw? Is on the ground.

According to tracking (and we're talking tracking and the United States Postal Service, which is usually behind)...

Lois and Clark is in town and on the delivery truck.

Dude. Dude!!!!!

*dances*

Okay, I'm going to go with caution and say it will be tomorrow before it gets to me. Because there's nothing on TV tonight and tomorrow night my sister and I are hooking up with my cousin for dinner and chatting. So of *course* it'll happen that I'll get LnC when I can't watch it immediately.

But...dude!

ETA: Well, the mail came and...no package. Ah well. I knew it was too good to be true.

Hee!

I have a coworker (younger than me and male, hence the excitement over something like this) that wants to go to The Devil's Tramping Ground. Me, I want to camp out there overnight.

Anyway, since he and I have since scared the bejeebers out of each other with horror stories today, including his horrifying experience with giant wolf spiders, pulsing egg sacs and swarming...yeah. We probably shouldn't do this anytime soon.

ETA: You know, I should reread before I type. Hee! What I meant was that, I think it would be cool to go to The Devil's Tramping Ground. Do it overnight to get the full experience. My coworker thinks it would be cool, too. He happens to be younger and male, which I think is why he gets excited by the idea...because he's young and male and daring.

Reading what I had written, it sounded like I wanted to go out in the woods overnight with a younger male coworker for some hanky panky. LOL

Interesting - Dear Tommy Boy

For some reason I'm not sure of, I was reading an article on sex scenes, nudity, and acting and in it Selma Blair talks about being comfortable doing scenes that bother others. But here's what she had to say about The Fog and Tom Welling.

"Sometimes if you really do have chemistry, or wish you had chemistry, it can really muck everything up," explained Blair. "Right now I'm shooting 'The Fog' with Tom Welling, and we have a scene where my character brushes him off in a friendly way, but I couldn't play it with confidence because I was so enamored with his beautiful face. My husband had a bit of a laugh about that because he never sees me really flustered. Before this I've just been kind of neutral with all my co-stars, and it allows us the freedom to just get to act - that's the safest approach. I don't understand the thing when people want to meet and say, 'We have to see if we have chemistry.' It's called acting."

Pardon my moment of "Honey, you and anyone with a functioning pulse would have that problem."