Do They Know It’s Halloween?: Cracked Feels My Pain
about the decline of trick-or-treating: #1. Traditional Trick-or-Treating Is Dying The first year I lived in California, we had a huge Halloween turnout at our house. So many costumed children showed...
View Article“10 Sexy Vintage Halloween Costumes”: I Can’t Believe
I have another opportunity to use my “eye-boobs” tag. see the calamities! (via Libresco)
View ArticleKurt Browning’s Humility, Nicole Bobek’s Radiance, And Heteronormativity on Ice!
Last night I saw the Halloween on Ice tour in Richmond, VA. Because this is a full-service blog I will give you my impressions. The main thing is that you absolutely should go if you are in the market...
View ArticleMy Ideal Halloween Playlist
I have thought deeply about this question. Also, feel free to be amused by how precisely this list allows you to guess my age. Gerard McMahon, “Cry Little Sister” Michael Jackson, “Thriller” (note the...
View ArticleHalloween Playlist II: The Music Stopped… And She Died!
Last year’s effort (sorry about the weird gap of silence at the end of “Red Sunshine”!). Several of these choices I owe to Generic Male DJs, a highly pleasurable YouTube channel. This year seems...
View ArticleHalloween Playlist 3: Midnight in America
Previous years here and here. This year has a bit less variety than the two previous but I think it’s still a fun one. “Did somebody call break?…Break’s over.” Tonio K, “How Come I Can’t See You in My...
View ArticlePlaying Dead: Halloween Playlist 2021
Previous years: 2020, 2019, 2018. If you want something suitably atmospheric, but without lyrics, I’m enjoying Dragon Warrior’s “And If I Die on Reverb Mountain.” Jean Ritchie, “Skin and Bones.” The...
View ArticleLeave Your Body at the Door: Halloween Playlist 2022
Previous years here, here, here, here! Lol so many of these links are broken. MEMENTO MORI. Shonen Knife, “Devil House” English version tbh David Bowie, “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” The Fugees,...
View ArticleAnd Gothic Is the Summer: Four quick horror(ish) reviews
For your pleasure. I Like Bats (1987) Polish vampire film, streaming via Shudder, about a woman who tries inpatient treatment to cure her vampirism and falls for her therapist. Some comedy, often...
View ArticleWhen the Lights Go Out (Everybody Starts to Pray): Halloween Playlist 2023
Previous years at the Halloween tag, but a lot of those YouTube links are deader than Dracula by now. This list is a bit pingpongy, you get ’80s glam and you get moody indie BS and not much else… and...
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