Month: October 2013

HALLOWEEN PARTIES AT THE DIVE BAR

So tonight is the night.. next weekend Halloween will be a thing of the past, so by default, bars are already being filled up from polluted sea to radiated sea with tramps with tramp stamps, vamps in damp cramps, all flocking to dumps and dive bars.. 
Sexy.. fangy.. 
Hairy.. sleazy. 
All there for your eyes to see…

So what is it at your local watering hole? What are they all wearing?

My Facebook ‘news’ feed is already filling up with images of friends in zombie attire, bloody fangs.. and oh, yes, outfits that would make anyone with decency blush just by looking..
It’s a party night, after all..
When everything  hangs out, gore and all.
Arms and legs, adorned with fake wounds..
Chests bare. And that’s the women!
Sexy nurses, sleazy witches..Scantily clad teachers.. And Miley Cyrus. I’d dare say more men will wear Miley this year than women. 
I did see a few nuns tonight. Though I think they were real, since they were cloaked from head to toe..Oh, and they weren’t vomiting behind a car at 2am.. 

HOW DIRTY IS YOUR HALLOWEEN? 

Enjoy the night.
And be safe.
Don’t be the next Ben Tramer.

Were you one of those schmucks who wasted money on a Miley Cyrus costume?

TWERK IT.
The Internet has changed everything. That we know. It comes in like a wrecking ball.
Remember back in September when Miley Cyrus costumes were flying off the shelf? Well that was so then.. This is now. And the ‘now’ is defined by the internet meme of the day, the topic and trend of the moment–and those trends can change by the moment.
And in that sense, basing your costume off of a trend can show how ‘dated’ you are–the ‘dating’ of years back would take months. These days it takes minutes..
USA TODAY opens its article with the trying tale of a woman from Arizona . She bought her Miley Cyrus costume but will not be wearing it to the Halloween party… I wonder how many other people are in the same boat as her? A foam finger collecting dust already.. a skimpy outfit hanging up… waiting to be worn but probably never will be…
USA TODAY goes on to report this, 

In 1984, the cool kids went as Freddy Krueger; in 1994, they went as one of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; and in 2006, they were Barack Obama, according to a 30-year look back at best-sellers from Spirit Halloween, the largest seasonal Halloween retailer in the country, with 725 locations across the United States and Canada

The first thing this quote tells me is how uncool I have always been.. I keep un-dusting my Freddy outfit on a regular basis.. It’s so old that the mask is ripped up the back of the head and I am not forced to wear it with a hoodie–actually making it a little more frightening in my opinion.
But enough about me, back to YOU. 
The history of costumes is a stroll down amnesia lane in pop culture. 
There aren’t many homemade ghosts anymore.. replacing them? The sexy and skimpy outfits of nurses who seem to want sex more than candy.
In our current times of virtual trick or treating, kids come and go. IN my personal opinion, I rarely even know what they are anymore.. they don’t seem to know either..
Of course, 20-somethings will wear their makeup and outfits with little material, go to that bar and achieve success: Drunken sex with a ‘sexy’ Superman costume laying on the floor. The dignity they lost in the process was priceless, but what do they care? They’re not 30 yet..
Halloween has changed .. It still changes. Abruptly. 

The 1 2 3 Lady revisited

Back in the late summer of 2013, I wrote about a friend’s account that her daughter was seeing someone who their family described as the ‘1 2 3 lady,’ a horrible old hag of a woman who come to their 5-year-old daughter’s window late at night , tapping to be let in, and whispering “1 …. 2…..3” while she does..
The story generated some interest, and I received some emails from readers saying that they thought this could be a reference to the ‘old hag’ of paranormal lore.
Someone must have been reading this because I received an email today concerning the 1 2 3 Lady description I offered. They sent me a link to this article which documents some beliefs that Mark Twain had concerning the paranormal, and in this case, witches. The article says, in part, 

Witches also have a counting instinct which forces them to count all that they see. So a witch-riding can be avoided by leaving items in her path – a sieve, she will be forced to count all the holes; a broom, she will count all the straws. Some people scatter mustard seeds or sand throughout the house. The witch is caught before she has time to count each grain.

It was my reader’s conclusion that my friend didn’t see an old hag, but instead a witch.
But before we get those fires burning again like in Salem, consider a few  things.
Since the article was written, I followed up with my friend. Her daughter was told to specifically tell the 1 2 3 Lady that she would not be permitted into the house. According to my friend, that happened–and the witch, hag, or whatever has not returned since early September.

Either a child’s imagination led the entire thing to be made up–fiction in a young person’s mind that turns into a scary reality.. Or there was a hag. Or witch. Or lady, tapping silently on that night time window whispering a count of 1, 2, 3..

I reserve judgement now just as I did then. 
Kids’ impressions of reality are often different from the realm of adulthood–but sometimes adults stop believing in things they once did as children. There’s a borderline where reality meets the paranormal.. and the small thin line is constantly moving.
Was the 1 2 3 Lady real?  We will never know.
But to one child, frightened in her bed at night, it was very real–and subsequently to her parents it became real as well, since they had to deal with the nightmare that ensued from it.
And in the end, while most parents tell their children earnestly, “there are no monsters under your bed,” they won’t be caught looking under their own..

School house of horrors begins getting demolished

The place of so much suffering and heartache that began December 2012 and continues to this today is now being demolished. The structure known as Sandy Hook Elementary School is vanishing before our eyes..

It’s not a wrecking ball strategy, but piece by piece is being taken away..

NBC news reports this:

Guards are on the lookout for anyone attempting to remove anything from the site and everything will be pulverized or melted down to ensure no artifacts will remain. A new school will be built and plans are for it to be open in December 2016.  

 

The nuclear plant “undamaged” after quake

This is what we are being told by officials after yesterday’s rather strong earthquake near Honshu, Japan. Even more, there was ‘no spike’ in radiation levels after the earthquake–of course that is considering radiation levels are already high, some state the ground is sinking, and the entire thing remains a global problem that needs a global solution..

But least the earthquake yesterday didn’t make things worse.
As if you can make disaster worse than it already is..

Early numbers coming in..

Box off a week before All Hallows’ eve… And BAD GRANDPA is dominating preliminary numbers…

What kind of a season is this without a witch?! No paranormal? No saw! No blades and blood..

Just irreverent comedy..

Well. . . Life is scary enough perhaps already..

UPDATE: STRONG EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN; FELT FROM TOKYO TO FUKUSHIMA

The HORROR REPORT was one of the first sources  to report that a major earthquake struck near Honshu, Japan.. there is debating information on what magnitude the quake actually was. Originally, the USGS reported a 7.3, but other sources have reported it to be a 7.6 ..

The quake occurred 230 miles east of Honshu.. Fukushima is in the zone where shaking took place.

At this moment, a tsunami advisory has been issued, but there is not believed to a widespread tsunami developing..

This quake appears to be intraplate rather than subduction interface..

The earthquake was felt  off the coast to Fukushima, to northern Japan, and in Tokyo..

So far major American cable news organizations have stuck to politics instead of natural calamity.
As usual, people are flocking to Twitter and the Internet for real news..