Jack T. Chick

When I was a child I was brought up as a Lutheran. My father was Irish, and had been put through a Catholic grade school which I gather he really hated. He became an atheist, but he didn’t really talk to me about it. My mother, brother, and maternal grandmother were Lutherans, and so I [...]

Lamp Finial

For a time, I built and sold lamps for a living. This is a large cubic die that I modified into a finial.

I would thread two 1/4″ fine thread nuts onto a bolt such that they abutted each other, or nearly so. Then I MIG welded the joint together in three spots. Inevitably, the heat [...]

SCUD Stories

Ashleigh Talbot has put together a lavish and extensive set of webpages regarding her time spent at SCUD. She had the presence of mind to save a great deal of ephemera, which undoubtedly helped to spark memories which would have otherwise been forgotten. She took photographs herself, and was surrounded by professional or semi-professional photographers. [...]

A Response to Chilcutt’s MonsterTalk Interview

The MonsterTalk interview with Jimmy Chilcutt which was posted to the Internet on February 3, 2010 didn’t contain much of anything I wasn’t already familiar with. Unfortunately, I didn’t have an easy way of “rewinding” or even time stamping his verbal statements, so any transcriptions are rough quotes from notes I took.

For those unfamiliar with [...]