Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
We can make up a shopping list of things you might need to know for simple survival in society—the ability to get along with others, sincerity, persistence, and the ability to share. You know, the usual stuff your parents remind you of before sending you to the playground.None of this will do you any good …
Halloween was always an oversized event among the habitues of the backside of Boston's Beacon Hill. The residents of the posher front side of the Hill and Back Bay residents described our neighborhood as a "working-class slum." But we noted that they always crept into our neighborhood for the outrageous at Halloween. Costumes, impromptu parades, …
Damn! I hate genie stories. First of all, they all assume that genies have integrity issues. The genie is always trying to trick you into some idiotic mistake of syntax or grammar that sends you off on some spooktacular journey. I think that most of the bad feelings are an apparent effort to transfer or project our own ethical …
 Here is my Halloween offering. As many of you know, I make some of my living as a maritime carver - quarter boards, transom banners, billet heads, eagles, and portraits of boats. But I was surprised when I was contacted about doing a strange portrait. Most portraits show the boat in profile, sailing on a …
Woodcarvers sometimes get strange requests. But they are usually the sentimental type of thing, specialty designs of various sorts. Well, I know one carver who has a kind of specialty in erotic sorts of things, but this story is not about her designs. I tried to break into the occult carving market by doing runes sets for people telling fortunes, only to be priced out by Chinese mass-produced junk. However, the shop owner in Salem did save my card and referred to me unique clients with special needs.
Bubba Gray was having a meltdown. His wife and the business manager wanted him to accept a contract to restore an old rum runner, and Bubba was saying there was no way on earth that the cursed thing was coming into his yard. Lazy Bones had famously killed its owner, his lover, and two mobsters in the thirties when it brought Canadian whiskey into Maine harbors. It had spent thirty years in a shed, and according to Bubba, it was there the damned boat remained. His wife quietly argued that he either accepted the contract or found another way to extract the yard from eminent bankruptcy.
Wallpaper can hide an entire wall of unpleasant surprises. Strip off ten layers of the stuff and find the blood spatters that paint didn't effectively cover. A little research at Town Hall reveals the details of the unsolved murder that took place there in 1910. Unfortunately, the culprit never got caught, and the wallpaper was a cheap way of ignoring what had happened.
was idly lighting the long kitchen matches one by one. I wasn't involved in discussing what sort of demon life might exist. I lit match after match and watched as they slowly burnt down while my friends got all worked up and angry about things.
I searched for a cogent answer, but I was too drunk to gather my thoughts. Sitting on top of the seventeenth-century gravestone was a translucent figure in strange clothing
I had a colleague who was adept at saving threatened historic properties from being torn down. Some accused him of using trick tactics to evade demolition, but he once confided over coffee that it was all about procrastination.
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