A bad brain day:

I had a Very Bad Brain Day today. Not sure what triggered it, but, alas, I spent most of the day in bed, feeling exhausted and just plain sad. I slept a great deal, though, and that helped. Also, my brain gave me some good dreams, perhaps to make up for the day’s mood, and that helped as well. There are also three foster kittens running around the office, so that’s helping too. They are awfully cute.

I almost decided to go back to bed right after dinner tonight, but instead I am writing this blog post. I’ve done it for forty-three weeks, and this is week forty-four, so dammit I’m going to do it! Maybe I’ll go to bed right after. We’ll see. Life’s a neverending mystery.

Last week’s story:

I am, as always, a week behind. Last week I finished “The Tower”, the science fiction romance from prompt forty-two. I haven’t even come close to starting “The Crown of the Final Elves”, the story from last week, though at least I have a title and an idea. It’s going to tie in to Witness to the Scourge, the novel I’m planning to write for National Novel Writing Month this year. Some of you may have read earlier drafts of this novel when it existed as a short story entitled “The B.I.M.” or the novella it morphed into. Dagnabbit, I’m going to write this novel, and I swear it’s going to make sense!

Ahem.

So that’s the status of last week’s story. I’ll work on it tomorrow and Tuesday, then hopefully get this week’s story done before next Sunday.

This week’s prompt:

I rolled an 8 on the d8 die, for Horror, and a 5 on the d6, for Mystery. So this will be a horror mystery. And the prompt I drew is pretty on the nose:

A plague victim wants to understand their terrible visions of a muttering keyhole, but something that should have stayed dead will rise again.

Not sure what “muttering keyhole” means, but I will figure it out.

This will be fun to write, I think.

This week’s recommendation:

If you like horror, comedy, and musicals, then I highly recommend you take yourself and a loved one to see Evil Dead: The Musical. Yes, it’s inspired by Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead series of movies: The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II, and The Evil Dead: Army of Darkness, which is just a gloriously silly film. These films, of course, feature Bruce Campbell, who is one of the finer comedic actors working in the horror genre. A small niche, perhaps, but a fun one.

Evil Dead: The Musical features songs like “Do the Necronomicon” and “What the Fuck was that?”. And there’s a splash zone, so if you sit near the front of the theater near the stage, you’re likely to be splashed with fake blood as characters are beheaded, hands are lopped off, and people get stabbed. All in the name of a fun night out.

Jennifer and I have gone to see this play with friends for several years now around this time of year at the Sutter Street Theater in Folsom, CA. If you’re going to go to this particular showing, though, you’ll have to get tickets early on — like, in August or earlier. They go fast as soon as the schedule is announced.

Onward:

As always, stay kind, stay cool, stay safe, stay punk, and don’t let the brain weasels bite.