http://www.countbachula.com/blog Even vampires enjoy good music! Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:08:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I've heard several news commentators describe the folks who caused the current financial melt-down on Wall Street as VAMPIRES. How insulting! Even the most blood-sucking vampire among us has a lot more scruples than some of those Wall Street robber barons! (And certain politicians, I might add!) You insult all ... http://www.countbachula.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-wall-street-meltdown/ I watched the U.S. Presidential debates last night, and I must say I was very disappointed, very disappointed indeed. For all their talk about foreign policy, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain mentioned Transylvania even once!! I, for one, am tiring of the United States and indeed the entire world ... http://www.countbachula.com/blog/2008/09/28/the-us-presidential-debates/ It's taken quite a bit of doing, but we finally have Internet at Castle Bachula. Satellite was our only option, but that works. The real challenge was electric power. Count Bachula will only use the Internet at night for some reason, so I've had to special order lunar panels instead ... http://www.countbachula.com/blog/2008/08/14/progress-at-castle-bachula/ Count Bachula's Castle is quite amazing! Here's the living room: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Count Bachula's Living Room"][/caption] Here's the Count's master bedroom (that bed doesn't look very comfortable to me! But to each their own... [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Count Bachula's Master Bedroom"][/caption] And here's the Count's den with entertainment center: [caption id="" align="alignnone" ... http://www.countbachula.com/blog/2008/06/14/scenes-from-castle-bachula/ We have finally arrived at Castle Bachula—at midnight, no less. That last 20 mile stretch riding in a horse-drawn carriage was like traveling back in time! And there sure are a lot of wolves around here—we heard them howling the whole way! Maybe the full moon has something to do ... http://www.countbachula.com/blog/2008/06/13/we-arrive-at-castle-bachula/ Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. I was hired by Count Bachula to record his organ playing onto CD. He said something about his Edison Cylinders of his playing wearing out—that doesn't ... http://www.countbachula.com/blog/2008/05/03/traveling-to-castle-bachula/