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‘Norwegians Can’t Take a Joke’
Parent dresses child up as Jeffrey Dahmer for Halloween.
by Lewis Warsh
‘Halloween Decorations To Fund Cancer Research Deemed “Too Scary”‘
The woman stealing people’s Halloween decorations in South Philly.
Kids twice as likely to die on Halloween night than any other day
Halloween mug shots
Dusten Williams was arrested in April 2006 after waving around a BB gun, pretending it was real.
Travis Stone was arrested in 2007 for drunk driving after he lost control of his car.
Dennis Lalime was arrested for drunk driving in 2013.
A “caveman” was arrested for possession of marijuana and MDMA at a music festival.
Catherine was arrested twice on the same day for drunk driving.
‘Disturbing Halloween decorations caused neighbors to freak out and call 911’
‘Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Played by Tor Johnson. Defected from Soviet Russia. Hunted by KGB. Walks onto a nuclear test site. Touch a button. Things happen. The A-bomb. A man becomes a beast. No-one talks – the camera didn’t have sound gear. A narrator. Unable to speak in full sentences. Flag on the moon. How did it get there? A topless woman is strangled. Nothing to do with the rest of the movie. The beast kills a couple on vacation. Something about the wheels of progress. People hunt the beast. Climb a mountain, then give up. Boys from the city. Not yet caught up in the whirlwind of progress. A guy gets shot from a plane. Man’s inhumanity to man. Beast is finally killed.’
’10-Year-Old Boy Pulls Gun On Woman Who Said She Would Take His Halloween Candy’
Kids Were Told Not to Visit Rex Heuermann’s House on Halloween
‘When people look at my cakes, they recoil in disgust.’
A groundkeeper unknowingly stumbled upon a dead body stripped to its socks and underwear while mowing a yard but thought it was a Halloween decoration. Haley Reavis, whose specific relationship to the body is unclear at this time, questioned the gardener’s rationale in thinking the corpse was a prop left in the middle of the grass facing down.
Witch shares how to hex your ex’s genitalia – and all you need is a cucumber
by Ron Koertge
Halloween-mad teen dies after noose prank to scare his sister goes horribly wrong
‘NEW “EXTREME HAUNT” EVENT FEARGAZM FLOPS’
Happy Halloween from Gay Porn!
‘Man Who Killed Halloween’ still haunts holiday
Ex-prosecutors: Rob Zombie’s haunted house’s ‘Gacy room’ insensitive to families of victims
Teen Jeremy McSpadden Jr playing zombie at Walking Dead-style attraction run down and killed by bus
ARTIST PAINTS GENERIC GHOSTS OVER FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS
Police force cafe to tone down “sick” Halloween murder scene display showing mutilated baby
When you hear that knock on your door on Halloween night, you’re not expecting anything but a little tyke in a colorful costume begging for candy. But for Los Angeles resident Peter Fabiano, “trick or treat” was the last thing he heard. On Halloween night, Fabiano opened the door to reveal a grown-up in full disguise, who shot him in the chest with a .22 in a brown paper bag before fleeing the scene. The murderer was actually a woman named Goldyne Pizer. Pizer was friends with a woman named Joan Rabel, who had a lesbian crush on Fabiano’s wife Betty. Pizer and Rabel hatched a plan to get the man of the house out of the way, but cops managed to track them down and got them jailed for second-degree murder.
10 laws that can spoil your Halloween
Jeffrey Franklin’s dark writings foreshadowed his deadly attack on his family
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p.s. Hey. A commenter has managed to get through the Cloudflare bug and leave comments by setting his IP to Romania, of all things. So you people who are being stopped at the gate might try that? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Yeah, excellent novel, very sad story. It was very good episode indeed! I might even go back for seconds. I’ll look for Lev Zhitskiy on Facebook and try to follow him, thanks! Have a rich weekend. ** jay, Hi, jay. Oh, shit. They should invent delicious, filling meds. Glad stuff at your flat is flowing though. Let’s both try to have weekends worthy of describing to each other back and forth in their aftermath. ** Lucas, Hey. Yes, I detected that you were at least a little smitten with the local environment when we were hanging. Nature’s cool, for sure. In LA you can be in the mountains or coast or the desert with a mere hour or so drive, and I do miss have those options at my fingertips. Awesome about your new friends. That’s the best key. Thanks for the CSH link. Any ‘band’ that covers GBV is A-okay with me. And it was nice. He nailed Pollard’s voice quite well. And I like that he can sing while barely moving his lips like a ventriloquist. I’m sold. I’ll get one of the early lo-fi CSH things to start. Thank you, my pal. I hope your weekend has all kinds of lovely surprises in store for you. ** Tyler Ookami, Thanks for the Romania IP tip. Maybe just maybe it’s a cure for others? How strange. I’ve already earmarked a search into Nekojiru’s work in general. Super interesting about the sadly failed Richard D James collab. Thanks a lot. I have watched bits and pieces of Téléchat because my friend/collaborator Gisele Vienne considers herself/her work as influenced by it, and she is also a big Topor fan. As am I. I actually did a post dedicated to Topor several years ago. Let me see if I can find it. Here: Roland Topor’s Brains. Thanks for that. What’s going on with you and yours of late? ** HaRpEr, That first viewing sounded like some kind of, yes, Lynch-meets-A-Serbian-Film mashup, but without the pleasure of former and consequences of the latter. I got spooked even by your recounting. Oh, great, though, that you seem to have found your new home, and all the mystical luck needed to lock that in. ‘La Batarde’, yeah, I liked that too. I like Le Duc. I think I did a post re: her. Let me check. Oh, yeah, about her novel ‘Thérèse and Isabelle’, which is very good. I should do a ‘Le Batarde’ post. For some reason, a lot of lot people over here in France don’t like her, but I don’t know why. ** Justin D, It’s true. Most American fast food places in Paris also either have lines around the block (Krispy Kreme, Pizza Hut) or are usually packed (Chipotle, KFC, etc.). Curious. The French seem to think crappy, or, in some cases, ‘crappy’ food is very suave or something. I eat a lot of pasta too. It’s a lifesaver when you’re low on money. My weekend? Zooming with an old friend I haven’t talked to in ages. Try to organise our film’s upcoming cast & crew screening in LA. Work with the VFX person who’s doing the final polishing of our film. Lots of film stuff. That’s my life. See some art? That would be nice. Stuff like that. Should be okay. How was the red carpet that your weekend unrolled before you? ** Oscar 🌀, You actually ate that b’day cake?! It looked kind of … grim, no? But you’ve still alive, that’s all that counts. Pikmin saying hi to me feels like the angels singing must feel to people on their death beds. Thank you. As for me, I pulled out my old Ouija Board yesterday, and I asked the powers that be to put me in touch with the spirit of River Phoenix, and they did, and apparently the spirit of River Phoenix is keeping an eye (?) on our back-and-forth because the first thing his spirit made my fingers spell out was … well, I think you can guess. So you’ve got a high placed friend out there in the ether, Osc. I’m barely reading, and I need to get back to it. I’m very slowly and fitfully reading a novel called ‘Adorable’ by Ida Marie Hede, and it’s very good. I personally prefer Ocean Vuong’s poetry to that novel, but lots of people really like it, so you’re probably okay digging in. Rip off the horrible cover. Be all punk rock. That’s my advice. ** Right. This weekend you get the next installment in the blog’s Halloween rollout, and it’s colorful thing, you must admit. See you on Monday.
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Hey Dennis! Really good timing for this actually, we had a bit of a scare in my flat this morning with a Halloween prop: https://ibb.co/nrr4VQ1 . As you can imagine, everyone got pretty freaked out, but it was just the neighbours getting ready for Halloween. Pretty scary though, the picture I took doesn’t convey how real the prop looked.
Other than that, things have been great here. Actually, my London friend had a weird experience recently – he runs a sort of tumblr blog that’s largely unremarkable, called tvrded or something like that, it’s mostly just him talking about his life and posting pictures he finds funny. But recently, he set up a fan group, for whatever reason, and it’s incredibly popular, so it seems like I’m not the only one who’s a little bit obsessed with him. Really interesting! Anyway, cya, have a great weekend. Sending good luck your way!
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Wow, I am able to comment again! Your advice to use a VPN set to Romania worked, but only in Safari.
The last week has been very difficult. I hope things improve from here: a day without a panic attack would be a tremendous gift. I plan to see THE SUBSTANCE in 90 minutes.
Are you seeking out extreme haunts during your trip to the U.S.?
I’d be disappointed if a Rob Zombie haunted house was in good taste.
Any plans for the weekend?
I just tried posting a longer message that got eaten by the blog.
Hhmmm. Finished Frisk today, yesterday went with my mom to see the documentary about the Casa Bonita restoration. It’s truly odd to see that footage of that place looking bright and Disneyish, with people from out of state coming to see it, as my childhood memories of it in the 2000s are a very damp, dark, moldy place with a smell that can’t really be put into words. Like a very marginally more interesting Chuck E. Cheese we’d go to on outings with our cousins. There were always rumors about people dying or being murdered there at my elementary school and I honestly kind of believed them. Come to think of it, Colorado theme parks are generally extremely decrepit in a not fun kind of way. Elich’s is as bad as its reputation suggests. I do want to go to Moon Farm in Fruita someday, looks like the fun kind of decrepit.
Ah “prank goes horribly wrong”, sweetest words of the English language. But seriously, who’d have thought such an innocent holiday could contain such anguish?
I’m very much a creature of habit so every Sunday morning I have myself some black coffee and a chocolate croissant while watching Match of the Day. It’s a routine that I religiously stick to, and have done for many years.
Any such rituals yourself?
Romania worked for me! Amazing poetry excerpts earlier in the week. Very excited to explore more by the guy. How are you D? I finally found a place to live two days ago and I found a job that will let me live which is nice. Also, SCAB mag is fantastic and thanks to Dominik for putting together something so so beautiful. The posts this week have put me in a good Halloween mood. Maybe I’ll get that giant skeleton decoration from Home Depot after all.
Okay, one more time for good measure.
Okay, I was able to change some settings. Even more settings. And it seems to be working.
Hey. That’s funny about you saying LeDuc is not that well received in France, because a lot of what I’ve read about her says the opposite, that she’s not that well known outside of France. Maybe her following is kind of spread out?
Yeah, I’m hoping for a quick move in for my new room, the landlord is just doing some routine checks on the information I gave him, so hopefully it will be asap that I get to move in. But classes do start tomorrow, and I have to put away my frustration for the moment. It’s like a 90 minute bus ride from here to there so that’s a nightmare, also considering that the bus sometimes doesn’t show up, but I only have three days that I have to go in this week anyway. I’m expecting a packed classroom. The funny thing is that the classroom halves after the first week and people who aren’t interested stop showing up. I’ve certainly been that person for some classes, but I haven’t failed anything yet! Hopefully my lecturer isn’t some authority wielding arsehole.
I’ve been listening to the new Porches album ‘Shirt’ and I really think there’s something special about it. To me it’s like a modern re-incarnation of The Replacements’ ‘Let it Be’ due to the mix of sympathy, anger, and general misunderstandings of sex and anything to do with the adult world. It’s an intriguing combination of rock and electronic. It’s mostly rock instruments but there’s autotune and some interesting effects. I’m not really a music expert so don’t quote me on anything, but it had an immediate hold on me and I’ve been listening to it all day. They’re very short, infectious songs. The whole album runs to less than half an hour. It’s the kind of album where when it comes out you wish someone would pay you to write a review of it.
Hey, Dennis! Wow, that dead guy mistaken for a Halloween decoration—I imagine that will be knocking around in my brain for a bit. My weekend was pretty uneventful, so not much to report. I’ve been listening to the new Clinic Stars album the past couple of days. Really lovely stuff. How was your weekend?
hey. oh, yeah I usually don’t act as amazed by everything as much as I did when we hung out. maybe unfortunately. it was a nice feeling. how was your weekend? mine was, objectively seen, not great because I somehow got really sick again but I’m feeling pretty alright despite that. I hope your ear has fully recovered by now btw! I don’t have much to report because I’ve just been in bed for the most part—I guess I did a lot of reading, I read hervé guibert’s ‘crazy for vincent’ and really did not like it as much as I had hoped to, and started a guyotat novel, unfortunately one of the oop ones so I have to get used to reading on my laptop again. how’s your week looking? any (hopefully positive) developments regarding the film or anything?
Hi Dennis, great stuff today. I especially liked the New York Diaries, the cucumber voodo doll, and the “jack”-o-lantern (must’ve taken careful planning to avoid painful head-on collisions).
How are things? Great to here that you’re finally actually working with the VSX person now to make those last few edits.
Despite the war cloud hanging over Tel Aviv I’ve been doing very well, hamsa (hand to ward off the evil eye — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa). Quitting coffee totally changed my life. Now I drink yerba matte instead, which for me provides a more mellow and sustained energy boost. Have you ever tried it?
I went to a choreography center on the outskirts of Tel Aviv for the first time to see a festival of early career choreographers, enjoyed it a lot. Modern dance is Israel’s strongest art form by far. I got hooked. Overall I like both the art and the people on the dance scene better than the poetry scene. I’m starting a phase of going to dance performances on a very regular basis, the way I used to go to the movies before the Temenos warped my mind.
I’ve been thinking about spending a month in Paris next September-October. I’m not used to planning or even thinking about things a year in advance, but this idea keeps popping up and seems viable if I plan it out well.