Where are all the new ghost stories?  I'm not talking about the tales of haunted grocery stores and vanishing hitchhikers you can see on SyFi's Ghost Hunters .   When was the last time you read a good...hard fro one man to keep a whole genre alive by himself.  King's friend Peter Straub had Ghost Story , but it came out 20 years ago. Two decades ago!!  Where have all the ghost stories gone?

If spiritualmonkey still had a Facebook account, his status would say "Pirate is currently weirded out by his cats drooling on the kitchen floor." Well, yeah. That's what happens when you feed them freeze-dried chicken liver. Heh.

The bartender in the photos accompanying this article may look familiar to some of you...

I was just watching the overview video for Evernote (ol' velcro brain is always on the lookout for useful tools), with spiritualmonkey watching over my shoulder. spiritualmonkey : Is...that did something else? lexica510 : Uh.... whaa?? spiritualmonkey : Work with me, babe. *taps forehead* You've gotta do a better job of keeping up with my internal monologue.

As the monkey mentioned , we're planning to take advantage of the rare event of me having a Tuesday off by going to Annie's Social Club for karaoke tonight. No guarantees — we may wind up waving off...by. No charge, sez the monkey; discount Fernet Branca ($3, sez he). (You might want to send me or the monkey a text message just to make sure plans are still on.) Maybe even donuts afterward