Great sadness reigned in the little Transylvanian village of Rotfemberg; Herr Feldenpflanz was dead. Here and there, as one walked in the cobblestoned streets, one saw a sudden dampness in the eyes of passers-by as his name was mentioned. Everyone was talking about him, praising his virtues, lamenting his early death; and in the eyes of many a fräulein was more than a trace of tears. He was indeed well beloved by all the village.
“Poor Herr Feldenpflanz,” said the tailor sadly, “a fine man, as honest as the day is long. And a learned man, too. He went to the University of Berlin for four years, and knew more than any other man in Rotfernberg. Yes indeed, a very fine man.”
The tailor blew his nose with vigor, and his listeners did likewise.
“And poor Fräulein Feldenpflanz! She loved her brother very dearly. She has no one else in the world. What will she do now?”
The tailor and his listeners all shook their heads sadly.
“Even now she sits beside him. For two days she has watched him, lying like life, so calm, and prays for his soul. We all know how he drifted away from God. Those wizard’s things that he did in his big, white room! Tubes full of strange vapors and lights there were, and lightning in glass balls. He always said that it was not magic—as if we had not eyes!”
Pearl does the penguin dance. See more 3D models over on the 3D Models page.
Recent discoveries
13 September The font "Airstream" from Dafont.
Stuff to Do
Add more public domain vampire writings and create an excerpt of the week panel on this homepage via a javascript rotation.
Get a scanner and start scanning some of my Monster in my Pocket trading cards.
Round out stub pages with more writings.
Possible things to do
A page of increasingly elaborate lists.
A demo page of my old 2021 website.
A demo page of my old 2023 website.
In fact, this could all be one exhibit.
Latest feature
24 October Say hello, baby, to Club 991! This is a miniature fan site for none other than J.P. Richardson, also known as the Big Bopper, of Chantilly Lace fame. This project started in early August and consumed much of my summer, and I'm so pleased to release it on what other day than his 96th birthday. So I'd like to issue a happy heavenly birthday to J.P. over here. And hopefully you all get to see a side of me that I haven't quite shown you before. We got scans, we got high quality scans, we got transcripts, we got a whole story, we've got footnotes, and we've got an essay, and all manner of fact-checking. So hopefully I'm going to do him justice with this little thing. I plan to open some kind of fanlisting soon, though, as I am hosting this on Neocities, it's going to be a little bit more hands-on and manual than the ones that use databases. Certainly not PHP, given, well, don't we all know? Read more
Note: If you want to learn what a "Swatch" is, try this.
Link Back
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