Showing posts with label grimphilly tours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grimphilly tours. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Vampires, Ghosts and The Cabin in the Woods

                                                           

So Friday night, my ghost hunting friends and I took our two fledgling ghost hunters to the Vampire, Sex, and Ghost Tour. This is a tour offered by Joe Wojie for Grim Philly. It lasted around 90 minutes and Joe dazzled us with tales of the City’s past.
       Starting from the left, Blanche, Rita, Suzanne, ReRe, me, and Jean                                 

We know where the bodies are buried!! What the connection is between Bram Stoker and Philadelphia and many more interesting and fun facts. Sorry there weren’t any handsome vampires around for the sex part. I’m team Eric and no, he wasn’t there.
                                                   
                                                                                                    
Joe also offers a Blood a Beer Tour, which my group will be taking soon. Joe is a University Professor who has done extensive research on all the sites we had visited. I’ll be interviewing him in the next couple of days and will post this as soon as I do, but here is his picture.
                                                    
Okay, so I promised my teenage grandson I would take him to see The Cabin in the Woods.
                                                         
He promised me it wasn’t a slasher film. My definition of slasher and gore may differ from Joshua’s point of view,
                                                       
but this said, I’m glad I went to see this. This is a great movie with generous helpings of fright and comedy and it has lots of conspiracy tech stuff. Something like Chainsaw massacre meets the Geek Squad.

                                         Josh and I watching the film.
                                                    
There was a brief nudity scene, so Granny that I am, I told Josh to cover his eyes.
                                                   
Yeah right. He was peeking between his fingers forcing me to re-enact a scene from the Exorcist.
                                                
Our favorite character in the movie was Fran Kranz.
                                            
     You’ll need to see the film to find out why. So if you have a free weekend coming up, go on a tour with Grim Philly and head out to the movies to see The Cabin in the Woods.
     Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that on the way home, I got in trouble with my daughter again for talking to strangers while riding the PATCO.
                                                 
   
                      













 

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Another Great Weekend

I had two of the grandsons sleep over on Saturday after we saw the movie, Hunger Games. It was great and it lived up to the five star reviews it has been receiving. Now I need to get the books.

                                                Josh and Nathan, the two from the left.

After dinner, the boys tried to find something fun to watch on T.V. Well we did find something new, but it was quite by accident. Nathan and Josh were arguing over what they wanted to watch and each had a death grip on the remote. By the time I wrestled the remote from their hands, we had pulled up, The Cutting Edge on demand. I then scanned down to the sci-fi section of the Cutting Edge and pulled up a show called Mercury Men.
This show is a hoot. We loved it. It’s a throwback to the old black and white cliffhangers they had in the 50’s, where you had to tune in each week to find out if the hero made out it alive. This show was created and directed by the very talented Chris Preksta

 and you can find it on Syfy.com, Hulu, or itunes. You can also go to the site http://www.mercuryseries.com 
Each episode is around ten minutes and there are ten episodes. The boys and I watched all ten and we want to see more episodes. There are two main characters, Edward Borman played by Mark Tierno and Captain Jack Yaeger, played by Curt Wootton.
                                        
                                          
You need to see this for yourself, we loved it.
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My Ghost Hunting group and I found a new adventure to go on and it’s right over the bridge in Philly. A friend from my writer’s group suggested that we would like this. Grim Philly Twilight tour is located at 6th and Market and right now they are offering two tours. One is the Vampires, Sex and Ghosts tour, which my friends and I will be going to in a few weeks and the second is the Blood and Beer, a Cemetery, serial killers and beer tour. University professor, Joe Wojie, leads both tours. Go to Grimphilly.com, and go on your own adventure.
See you next weekend with a new addition to my Lilith’s Escape series and what other new adventures I tumbled into.