Tag: crystal skull

  • Blame Dan Aykroyd from Ghostbusters

    A few years ago, on a placid summer evening resonant with cicadas, I stepped out to buy a bottle of wine for my wife’s show at an art gallery. And there, in the corner of the store, sat Dan Aykroyd, promoting his new Crystal Head Vodka. You may not know this (I certainly didn’t at…

  • Dan Aykroyd and real-life ghost busting on Sci Fi Bookshelf

    I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Aykroyd at a liquor store recently.  As if that weren’t surreal enough, he promptly smiled and handed me a skull.  A glass skull, in fact, full of vodka. “Her name is Joy,” he told me. I am not making this up. I had come to talk to Dan…