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And AMERICAN BLACKOUT is airing on Teee veee…
Timing is key.
Very key.
Year: 2013
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From Spaceweather
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Autumn work
Ayden didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he said he’d help Daddy clean the yard up..
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THE HAUNTING SUNDAY MORNING SIDEWALK
SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 2013The season of the witch is here.. for some, this is the time of year where the thin line between reality and ‘over there’ vanishes for a while.. Ancient tradition would cause us to wear those costumes, carve those Jack O’Lanterns.. Pagan rituals that persist today.It’s also a time where, in my opinion, I feel it becomes a virtual ‘full moon’ for the week.. The strange, the creepy, the macabre. It begins today..
Disgusting news from New York City: Stabbing rampage hits Brooklyn.. a man was arrested after butchering a woman and her four children.. According to reports this Sunday morning, a ‘crazed man’ turned the Sunset Park home into a slaughterhouse.. The woman was 37. She had four young children.. The man has been identified as the children’s mentally troubled older cousin.. This is such a horrible story..The killing is being called a mass stabbing..More insanity with knives.. Man with knife was on the loose at Indiana University.. 1 person was stabbed on campus..You can turn bread into a body but you can’t take away the disease .. Bishop in Fargo, NC, may have exposed church goers to hepatitis A through communion!
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: Samsung PAID people to write bad reviews about rivals online!
Sort of a compliment to my scathing critique of drunken Halloween culture last night: 45 arrested in Ohio Halloween block party.. -
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.
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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.
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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.. -
A quote worth remembering about the Sandy Hook Elementary School demolition
“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.” -
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.
