Karate Rap? Crazy

West Texas Dance Craze-- This is a Strange One

Attention, Lulu. A new dance craze has swept across the vastness of West Texas like a racing tumbleweed on it's way to a barbed wire fence. It's fascinating and possibly hexy.

What is This Haze, And Why is it Purple?

Things are hazy lately at the Black Mansion, and not in a conventional way. The haze has a strange purple and glimmering quality that suggests awful origins. What magic is afoot? There have been rumblings that suggest there is a plot in the making to remove us from West Texas, perhaps even as far as back to Walla Walla. Who can say in these dire times? A certain The Wicked Witch of West Texas would certainly love to be rid of this particular cramp in her style...

Strange Days Just Get Stranger

An acrid wind slithers in the chaparal these days. Strangers keep showing up in the Black Mansion looking for cracks. In what we're not sure, but we rather suspect they are searching for fissures in the very fabric of the multiverse, places where the strangeness is leaking from West Texas into other less vile villas than the one we inhabit. Wish us luck, as time may draw nigh when we find ourselves finally fleeing this barely inhabitable place for fairer climes. Wait. What's that I hear whispered on the wind? Is that... could it be? Could this spell the end to the West Texas adventure? The omens all point to a departure. Every divination does as well. And yet, it is not, as they say, over until it is over.  Today we plan to do crafts in the dark hall, so in that spirit, Lulu, go find some dreary old object and put a raven on it. See ya.

Valentine? Do You Realize?

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Hard to make the good things last.

The Importance of Being Wicked Part Deux

"I heard that there's a worse witch than you in the North," Lulu sassed her evil aunt, who had just arrived in Walla Walla and taken up residence in a spooky old house only blocks from Lulu's home. She wanted to let the Wicked Witch formerly of West Texas, now of Walla Walla that she wasn't scared of her. To drive her point further she stuck out her tongue at the witch.

"Rest assured Lulu, there is no witch worse than I, and I intend to deal with any pretenders swiftly. I know very well of a Witch who has pretended to be many things she is not, but she will soon be brought to justice. That is one reason I have found it necessary to return to Walla Walla. False Wickidity cannot be tolerated."

"What about that time Cybil was in West Texas pretending to be you?"

"We settled that, Lulu. And Cybil is my daughter so she has a fairly strong Wickidity gene, plus the location boosted her badness." The witch studied Lulu for a moment in that way that made Lulu uncomfortable. "Besides, Cybil really has been through the worm hole to Sugarland, Not-Texas and she's much further along in her Wickidity studies than you likely realize. But this case is wildly different."

Lulu didn't really know what the witch was talking about because she had only made up the stuff about the other witch to irritate her aunt. The witch looked fairly un-ruffled by this revelation, however, which made Lulu a bit curious.

"So another really awful horrid witch really exists?" Lulu asked.

"Pretending and lying is not really witchcraft, Lulu. It is, in fact just the opposite. It relies on the most base trickery. It's like when you tell your brother 'look over there' and then steal his dessert. Not magic at all, if you see what I mean, and a charlatan like that pretend witch must face the consequences of her deceptions."

"What are you going to do?"

"Kick the false witch off the planet probably, maybe a nice new home on Saturn would be about right after I turn her half rat. Wait. I already did turn her half rat. Here's a picture I took." The witch showed her a horrid looking photo.



"Really? And how will you do that?"

"Don't worry. Remember the grays, Lulu? Surely you can't have forgotten them. I'll hardly even have to flick my wand to be rid of the pretender."

"I don't know. My dad says there are no aliens. That they don't actually exist."

"Is that so, now? Alright. How do you explain what you saw, then?"

"I don't because my dad told me if I did I would be in trouble, so now grays don't exist and Santa still does."

"Well, Lulu. I'm sure I'll be ready to kidnap you again soon. You may as well be prepared because it's only a matter of time before I come up with another task for you, which you probably won't survive." With that the Wicked Witch of Walla Walla waved her wand and disappeared in a flash of light.

Chihuahua Salsa Dancing

This guy has some serious salsa moves. We're working on getting Bob and Mike to dance salsa, but so far they aren't that into it.