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* excluding Southern California
** Halloween countdown post #8

Lewisburg Haunted Cave, Lewisburg, OH
World’s Longest Haunt! What’s Scarier than a REAL CAVE? With 500 ft of haunted bridges and 30,000 live bats, the Lewisburg Haunted Cave is located deep underground and been the #1 Rated Haunt for two years in row by Ohio Valley Haunts. Open rain/shine (it’s dry underground). Cash only at Lewisburg Haunted Cave. There is a ATM onsite and several ATM’s at banks in nearby village of Lewisburg.

 

 

Blood Prison, Mansfield, OH
The United States prison system is in disarray…The worst inmates all over the United States have escaped their respective institutions looking for a new place to call home. After numerous murder sprees and in some cases “Clown Sightings” across the nation these psychopaths have found the destination they were looking for in Mansfield Ohio….The Ohio State Reformatory! Once known for filming movies and music videos these crazed inmates have taken over and renamed it BLOOD PRISON! The authorities do not dare go after them as these extremely psychotic inmates have The Ohio State Reformatory locked down…..but every Halloween they open up the gates and dare anyone to try and make it through this once famous prison….Do you have what it takes to ESCAPE FROM BLOOD PRISON?!

 

 

McKamey Manor, Huntsville, Alabama
What the majority of the population would consider a torture chamber rather than a haunted house, McKamey Manor is by far the scariest “haunted house” there is. It began in San Diego, and now has locations in Alabama and Tennessee, and not one person has made it through without asking for it to be over. The 30-page waiver you need to sign in order to participate gives Russ McKamey and his “team” the OK to shock you, submerge you in water, and even give you unwanted dental work, along with other disturbing things we’ll save you from reading.

McKamey is currently under watch from locals — in both of his new locations — who want him out. The most disturbing part: He has over 27,000 people on the waiting list.

 

 

Miasma, Chicago
Miasma is a show that grew out of the creator’s personal dissatisfaction and a desire to truly connect with an audience. This experience is an extreme haunt that is story focused, without forgetting why the guest arrived – fear, emotion, and exploration.

During the show, guests will find themselves guided through the experience, but with interaction in every scene requiring full participation. There will be little distraction from the narrative and interpersonal connections – sets are minimal, more ambient in nature. “Horror has always been at its most effective for me when fear and emotion collide,” reveals Justin, and it is this merging of full contact and a strong emotional narrative that makes Miasma such a fascinating undertaking.

This haunt isn’t for everyone. “We’ve had past guests leave angry because they didn’t think miasma was what horror should be and took offense to the non-traditional content and the sickening feeling they left with.” He explains that the Midwest is not accustomed to this kind of terror immersion and as such, “it’s important to me to make sure our guests know, as best as I can allow without spoilers, this isn’t a ‘boo haunt’ and they should be prepared for content they won’t experience in the local haunts. It’s too easy for a guest, new to this, to purchase a ticket, influenced by the commoditizing ideas proprietors of local horror have embraced and sold to them for years in Chicago.”

 

 

Haunted Plantation, Waipahu, Hawaii
The Haunted Plantation insists this is more than a haunted house — it’s an entire haunted village.Haunted Plantation has been Hawaii’s premiere haunted house attraction for 12 years, drawing thousands of visitors from across the island. Located on a plantation that is said to be haunted by real spirits, you will walk through multiple houses on the property, taunted by multiple frights along the way.

 

 

Containment Haunted House, Atlanta
One of Atlanta’s favorite haunts, Containment Haunted House encompasses 26 shipping containers linked together into a terrifying maze of unusual scares.

 

 

Haunted Overload, Lee, NH
Haunted Overload is simply one of the most creative and unique haunted attractions in the world. Now located on the DeMeritt Hill Farm on Route 155 in Lee NH, the show has been voted one of the top 13 haunted attractions in the country multiple times.

Focusing on quality, we are committed to giving the customer the ultimate Halloween experience at an affordable price. Nowhere else can you see huge monsters looming over the crowd, some as tall as 42 feet. The authentic farm location provides the perfect backdrop for the hundreds of lighted pumpkins and movie quality sets. Most of the one of a kind props are designed and created by founder Eric Lowther. The attention to detail has led to being ranked the #1 Scariest Haunted Attraction in America in 2015 by Hauntworld.com. Additionally Haunted Overload is and has been consistently ranked as one of the top haunted attractions in the world. Haunted Overload was also voted #18 of the Top 20 Most Influential Haunted Attractions of ALL TIME by HauntWorld.com.

 

 

Ghost Boat, Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wisconsin Dells legends tell of ancient canyons buried deep in the rocky banks of the Wisconsin river, where dark things haunt the passageways and shadows move in the moonlight. What lurks inside? Take an eerie, after-dark journey up-river by boat and into the shadow-haunted passages on foot, and find out. The Ghost Boat is Wisconsin Dells’ scariest and most intense attraction. Climb aboard for an experience you’ll never forget . . . assuming you come back.

 

 

Asylum 49 Haunted Hospital, Tooele, Utah
1. You can be touched, grab, separated from your group, detained in small dark areas and left, straped to a metal bed and worked on by the crazies.

2. If you can’t handle rule #1 then don’t come whimpo.

3. You can’t touch the actors or the props unless we throw something at you then by all means put your hands up you will look stupid getting hit in the face with a prop.

4. We do not recommend small children, immature adults or pregnant women. If you think your kids are too young, then they are too young.

 

 

Dan’s Haunted House, Lake Dallas, Texas
Granted, when it comes to naming a haunted house, Dan’s Haunted House does not exactly strike fear into anyone. However, it’s not likely you have ever experienced a haunted house like this. It carries a Japanese theme, so instead of clown masks and chainsaws you’ll be your scare from kabuki masks and samurais. The house also has the approval from Rob Zombie who highly recommends Dan’s.

 

 

Dent Schoolhouse, Cincinnati
The Dent Schoolhouse, built in 1894, on Harrison Avenue in Dent, is one of Cincinnati’s most popular haunted houses, drawing huge crowds every Halloween season. It is also believed, by some, to be haunted for real!

Any online search you do about the place will give you the same basic story. Several of the School’s students disappeared between 1942-1952. The legend goes that people noticed an odd smell coming from the basement of the School House, but the School’s janitor, Charlie McFree, convinced them it was backed up pipes. Things calmed down, but then the smell started again in 1955, after 7 more children disappeared. This time a mob formed and broke into the basement, finding the rotting corpses of the missing students. Charlie the Janitor was immediately suspected, but no one was ever able to find him. So now the School reportedly is haunted by the ghosts of the murdered children, and Charlie’s still around, looking for more victims!

 

 

Psycho Path, Tulsa
Making it through the Psycho Path means surviving three events. The Dark Ride, a chilling ride through the forest, the Shadow Box, an old funeral home haunted by an orphaned boy, and the Rage Cage, where you’ll have to find your way out of the maze. Additionally, you can choose to go on the Last Ride if you’re feeling daring. The Last Ride simulates what it feels like to be buried alive.

 

 

The Nevermore Haunt, Baltimore
Bizarre creatures, terrifying visions of the past and heart pounding horrors return this spring for Baltimore’s 3rd annual Light City! Locally inspired, historically themed and scary as hell, The Nevermore Haunt is unlike any haunted house you’ve ever seen.

 

 

The Haunted Hydro, Fremont, OH
The Haunted Hydro resides in a decommissioned hydroelectric dam in a secluded farming area of Fremont, Ohio. They are celebrating their 27th season this year with the addition of 3 high-speed escape rooms in addition to their two enormous main attractions. The Hydro’s main attraction this year was called “Quarantine” and their 2nd attraction, The Woods, ran under the name “Infestation.” The themes were evident immediately upon entering the courtyard, where a very…gooey nurse walked us through their medical shack to make sure nobody in our party had been contaminated before entering the Hydro’s courtyard. A photographer was ready to take a family photo of us before we went to explore the Hydro’s many entertaining offerings. It was suggested to us by the staff that we explore the Woods first and then the Hydro for maximum enjoyment.

 

 

Raisin Hell Ranch, Madera, CA
Wicker Village

Wicker village was a quiet town until the day the Nuclear testing site calculations were off..and the bomb sirens were too late. Wicker Village suffered a devastating lost.The village was soon abandoned. Members of a local historical society decided to turn this little village into a museum to educate about Nuclear testing; unbeknownst to anyone that some still resided, welcoming those to Wicker Village.

Snyd’s Sideshow of Oddities

Lights…cameras…Show biz! It’s the 1886 and Jenny Jones is the star of Snyd’s Sideshow and oddities. Having been born with ectrodactyly or “Lobster hands” he fits right in with her fellow companions on the Circus tour. Welcome to Snyd’s Sideshow of Oddities! Be warned you cannot take back what you are about to see!

Blackout

– The wind, the corn, the dark, and you…these are the only things between you and freedom. Can you find your way out of the maze? Will you make it out alive that is? As the darkness seems to envelope you the further you go…the cold chilling you to the bone had it been 30 mins or 3 hours? Come see if you can make it out of the blackout maze!

 

 

Haunted Hoochie at Dead Acres, Pataskala, Ohio
Dead Acres Haunted Hoochie is one of, if not the MOST, extreme haunted house in the country, only in Columbus. This attraction is not for the faint of heart. It is always ranked as one of the top haunted attractions in country and is rated as the Most Outrageous Haunt anywhere! If you are looking for a totally unique and extreme experience…look no further!

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Rewritedept, Hey. Oh, Spiritualized. Yeah, on one listen, I found the new album kind of dull ,or at least not what I’m in the mood for, but of course I plan to try it again. I’ll keep you posted on the possible LA trip too. Take it easy, man. ** Sypha, Yeah, I figured the curation came from above. At least it’s huge. ** Jamie, Morningest to you, Jamie. Cool re: the Strand outlay, my pleasure. Ah, the dentist. Well, long story short, he pulled out my fucked up tooth. No fun, although I liked how noisy it sounded. Then I was put on pain killers, which were much needed, and that pretty much turned the rest of my day into mush with vague activities happening on the perimeter. Same today, but I have to work, so we’ll see what I can eek out. Your sojourn into the medical sounds much more festive, yes. Wow, that thing you swallowed is pretty cool. I’m almost envious. Glad you’re back to stomach inputting. Me too, although I’m sticking to the soft stuff. My TV co-conspirators: Gisele’s in Japan with ‘Crowd’, and Zac has a bad cold, so I’m a bit on my own for the moment. Tuesday’s tooth removal was no small surprise, that’s for sure. Otherwise, it was haze central. Wednesday is TV work-cum-pain killer effects of some probably futile sort. May your day be the complete opposite of mine. Flurrying love, Dennis. ** Amphibiouspeter, Hi. Happy the films hit your spot. Ah, gotcha, on your Halloween jones. Well, at least you could ostensibly make that happen on your lonesome. I’m stuck daydreaming about mine and putting together longing posts like the one day. Jenny Hval wrote a novel? Holy moly. I did not know about that and I am, like you, extremely interested. Thanks, man. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I had not heard that but I will today thanks entirely to you. And I suspect it will flatter my pain-killed brain illustriously. Thank you! ** Steve Erickson, Man, just to give you a night-and-day example of France vs. the US on the medical front, at the dentist I got a thorough exam, x-rays, a lengthy tooth extraction, aftercare, and how much did all of that cost me? $40. No one here in France seems to be the slightest bit interested in that Cher album, thank fucking god. ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff. Cool, yeah, glad we share the Strand fandom. I know about that new Malick, but I don’t know when it’s due. I suppose it’ll be born at one of the big festivals. Extremely interested to see what it is given its seeming movement to some degree towards his earlier style. This weekend for Skyping is good. Saturday evening won’t work for me, but otherwise, I think I’m pretty around. ** Kyler, Hi. Yeah, my expectation was that the dentist was going to tell me I need at least a half-dozen root canals, but, no, he was minimalist. He was, like, I could keep the fucked up tooth, but it will turn agonisingly painful ere long, or I could get a tooth reconstruction, which would be costly, or he could yank it out for $40. And he happily ignored whatever fucked-up-ness my other teeth surely contain. Well, let us know when you have a pub date. No, I won’t be able to go back to my novel until the TV script is finished, I think. ** Nik, Hi, N! Yeah, the dormant but soon to be revived novel is probably the semi-quasi-autobiographical one I described. Apart from finishing/revising that bit I read in London, I haven’t gone back to it, other than to read through it somewhat. It needs a whole bunch of work. When will you get feedback on your new story? Congrats on finishing it. That is a lot to juggle. I’m a big juggler, or seem to end up being one quite often, but there is that one-too-many projects point, my novel being the too-many point at the moment. I have read ‘Hill William’. I liked it. But, yeah, I think you’re probably right about its relationship to the others now that you mention it. Interesting. ‘Invisible Cities’, yes! Not bad on the class reading front so far. I’m stalled on reading right now due to interruptions, but I’m heading back in. I’m reading New Juche’s ‘Bosun’, which is great, and about to start a few things. Well, assuming the Yves Tumor album is great enough to fuel two distinct great weeks, I hope and trust your half meets and even exceeds its standard. ** H, Hi! Great, my pleasure, naturally, on the Chick Strand post. I’m okay. On pain killers from an extracted tooth, just back from travels, having to get back to work with reluctance. I’m glad your conference-centric travels went well! You have a swell week too. ** Okay. There’s my annual stab in the dark-style picks re: the USA’s possibly best commercial haunted house attractions for this year. ‘Best’ home haunts and So. Cal. attractions coming soon. See you tomorrow.

* Halloween countdown post #7

 

Sunn O)))
Grim
Bliss Signal
Himukalt
Pig Destroyer
Ital Tek
Eartaker
Puce Mary
Jesus Piece
Ipek Gorgun
Straight Panic
Drew McDowall
Innumerable Forms
Pan Daijing
Spiritflesh

 

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Sunn O))) live @ Psycho Las Vegas, August 19, 2018
‘I only showed up for the evening session on Sunday after taking the day to recover, but I still caught my favorite set of the festival, courtesy of the polarizing Sunn O))). Augmented only during their 75 minutes onstage by haunting lights, heavy fog and a semi-circle of massive amplifeirs, the black-hooded Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson layered together the loudest, heaviest drone piece I’ve ever experienced, a darkly hypnotic guitar bath that rattled the ribs in my chest and vibrated the organs beneath them.’ — Spencer Patterson

 

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Grim Volcano Flower
‘Each track on this tape is an overwhelming nightmare of bleak soundscapes, obscured samples, terrifying screams and howls, abrasive arcs of screeching noise, and pulsing repetition. And, of course, all of this is juxtaposed with uncomfortably serene melodies which are just as (if not arguably more) haunting than the crushing cacophonies which they sit in between. Like all of Grim’s work, the uncomfortable silence following the final track hangs heavy in the air around the listener, and that moment is as beautiful as it is unnerving, which is the very essence of Grim.’ — Fucked by Noise

 

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Bliss Signal Untitled
‘Bliss Signal just makes that experience more explicit. Reverb and bright synth lines, the kind you’d hear on an Eluvium song, settle alongside crashes of cymbals and pounding bass drums. Not quite metal and not quite dance music, “Bliss Signal” finds common ground in the way each of those genres works on the body. It’s an exciting introduction to an odd couple whose strangeness subsides the more you think about it.’ — Sasha Geffen

 

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Himukalt Ruined-Raped
‘As admirers of Himukalt’s four previous tape releases, Malignant is pleased to present the first full length LP from this promising, Nevada based, female fronted act. The project of the enigmatic Ester Kärkkäinen, Knife Through the Spine delivers a steady cascade of abstract sounds, festering with grinding pneumatic throb, coarse frequency blasts and sputtering electronic oscillations, with spliced snippets of processed, flanged vocals and a general sense of social anxiety and disaffection. There’s something uniquely old school and primitive at work here, capturing the claustrophobic, unsettled and fragmented sound of early Illusion of Safety or mid-late ‘80s industrial on a whole, contemporizing it, and filling it in with an obsessive, post-mortem feel.’ — Malignant Records

 

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Pig Destroyer Army of Cops
‘Grindcore dwelt on the fringes of culture during the latter part of the Cold War, but in 2018, with Pig Destroyer’s Head Cage, it has moved to occupy the centre: a ferocious sonic blender of the heaviest ingredients – it takes down the security state (‘Army Of Cops’), skewers those who dodge having the courage of their convictions (‘Circle River’), and decries how quick we are to turn on each other when we do express our beliefs (‘Trap Door Man’). The album points to a personal and social malaise that is endemic in the second decade of the twenty-first century. It is the sound of a mass psychic breakdown enabled by new tech tools of self-harm. Our heads are getting fucked up, and Pig Destroyer are gleefully applying more pressure.’ — Dan Franklin

 

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Ital Tek Lithic
‘At some point in the last couple of years, the music stopped being just “cinematic” and became the cinema itself. That is to say, it became kinetic, the source of movement through sound. Perhaps a better word to describe such a transforming experience would be “cinesonic” [can we just coin that term? can we? yes?] to move one’s mind through the perceived pressure levels, or, even better, “vitaphonic” [ok, I’m really trying here, folks], for the sound is living on its own. It’s not enough these days to just put on an album, at your desk on your commute. One must prepare themselves for an hour of active listening as if commencing on a journey, on metamorphosis through music, and let it carry you away. There are more than a few albums out there that achieve such level of dynamic alteration, but not as much as the latest offering from Ital Tek.’ — Headphone Commute

 

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Eartaker Iron Trivet
‘In 2017, dubstep producer Goth-Trad recruited vocalist Diesuck and noise artist Masayuki Imanishi to form the doom metal unit Eartaker. The Japanese trio employ dense atmospheric noise and Diesuck’s low scream for a sound that is even darker and more disconcerting than Goth-Trad’s most vicious productions. A prominent figure in the Japanese dubstep scene, Goth-Trad gained notoriety with grime-influenced tracks and releases on the legendary Deep Medi Musik. Bedouin Records has released music from artists such as Merzbow, Tzusing and Pan Daijing.’ — Henry Bruce-Jones

 

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Puce Mary Red Desert
‘The Drought is a “first person narrative,” where the “traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control.” The release is still noisy and industrial-sounding, and Frederikke Hoffmeier is still found speaking in a way that erects our armhairs, but it’s also clearly following a path. The written works of Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet were supposedly an inspiration.’ — TMT

 

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Jesus Piece Lucid
‘Jesus Piece rage at the nexus of hardcore, death metal, industrial, and ’90s metalcore. They’re part of a new metalcore movement that proves that experimentation and succinct, clobbering riffs can not only coexist, but make for natural partners. On their first full-length, Only Self, they make the case that such should be the new tradition.’ — Andy O’Connor

 

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Ipek Gorgun Afterburner
‘In the work of Ipek Gorgun, small moves and grand gestures are equally important. Before she molds her instrumental electronic music into massive shapes, the Turkish sound artist infuses it with precise detail. “I work with milliseconds in the beginning, then I switch to seconds, then to minutes,” she once explained. “At the end, I think about the whole arrangement of the structure… So I zoom in, zoom out, and try to find a way to fit everything in place.” As a result, her compositions connect on the micro level of individual sounds as well as on the macro level of widescreen narrative.’ — Marc Masters

 

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Straight Panic لواط
‘Straight Panic is the queer nihilist power electronics project of Thomas Boettner, formerly from Minneapolis, MN and now based in New Orleans, LA. Against assimilation, against ease, Straight Panic matches the intensity of queer rage and desire to richly layered sound, drawing on sources such as the writing of Dennis Cooper to the atrocities of the current “gay purge” in Chechneya.’ — Issue Project Room

 

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Drew McDowall Rhizome
‘Growing up in the gangs of 1970’s Scotland, McDowall traded in the daily violence for the aggressive self-expressionism of punk, forming his own band in 1978 called The Poems with his then-wife Rose McDowall. This project led to friendships with Genesis P-Orridge, David Tibet, and countless others, and soon after, McDowall found himself in the ranks of P-Orridge’s Psychic TV. Later on McDowall established himself as a full-time member of the arcane and esoteric outfit known as Coil. His impact on Coil’s sound became apparent as the releases transformed from their pervious avant pop signature to a more complex and methodic electronic imprint, accompanied by even more abstruse subject matter than previous years.’ — Dais Records

 

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Innumerable Forms Contaminated
‘It makes sense that members from such first class acts as Power Trip, Genocide Pact, Mammoth Grinder and Magic Circle would make quality music, but no one could anticipate the sheer magnitude of power that Innumerable Forms let loose with Punishment in Flesh, a true death doom cataclysm. Standing as both title track and an accurate reflection of the whole album, “Punishment in Flesh” wallows in glacial heaviness before bursting into a raging tectonic rumble that would intimidate even the most staunchly macho meathead.’ — Brayden Turenne

 

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Pan Daijing Phenomenon
‘Noise music is listening music. It requires some certain kind of strength. I’m not very much into philosophical noise music, it’s more a noise wall or harsh noise which has very interesting concepts behind it. I like rawness. When you come from more of a dark side and you start from that point and then you go to the light, that’s what I resonate with. This kind of darkness, when something hurts you so much you can’t moan about it every day any more, it’s like when someone you’re so close to passes away and you can’t cry. That’s how I feel.’ — PD

 

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Spiritflesh Impasse
‘One of Bristol’s worst kept secrets, Spiritflesh – outed as the duo of DJ October and Borai – piles their considerable weight behind four hulking riddims built, Frankenstein’s monster style, from elements of doom metal, EBM and industrial noise fused with dub pressure. “Impasse” is utterly ghoulish, with the bass sucked below a dense shoal of ghostly dub figures, perhaps imagining a spawn of Drexicya, and the black hole of Cobalt Links opens its gargantuan jaws to anyone foolhardy to get close enough.’ — boomkat

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. Yes, a short term solution, I guess. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. How is the class, if you’ve started? Maybe I’ll find out as I move through time here, if it’s already going. Cool you made it to the V&A. A show about ocean liners is unexpected and interests the … nerd (?) in me. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. I have no idea about that photo. I just came across it. Ah, very curious about that double review. Everyone, Here are Mr. Erickson’s thoughts on the double whammy of the new Yves Tumor and Low albums. No, we didn’t have mixtapes for the road trip, just full albums, pulled tracks, etc. And no Krautrock for no good reason. A bunch of hot off the presses stuff mostly. Everyone, Also read Steve’s overview of the New York Film Festival to find out what most of you (and me) are missing here. I hope you feel better ASAP. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Wait, I’m not remembering your dates, but I think you’re there. Over here. Over here-ish. Are you commentable, if so? Ha ha, LCTG on a porn site. I bet those clips got a whole lot of thumbs and penises down. ** Paul Curran, Thanks, Paul! Gisele and all her dancers are in Japan right now (Kyoto, but I think most of them are visiting Tokyo too) without me, very sadly. Yes, I think S. was indeed there. I didn’t know it was (partly?) to do a special appearance with Boris, but that makes total sense. Sweet. Thanks! The Germany theme park trip was a blast. London too. The film went down really well, and it was interesting to read new prose for the first time in ages, and London was fun in that London-y way. How are you? Are you managing to write? ** JM, Thanks a lot about the post, bud. You good? ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Happy you were happy to see Carpenter back. Yes, ‘Bosun’ is fantastic! I read it in Germany. I want to see ‘I am not a witch’ too, and I haven’t read the Tim Mohr, but yeah, I’ve read a lot of grumbling in its regard. When it comes to the slaves’ literary aspirations, you are like the Gordon Lish from hell! Ha ha. Ditto on also wanting to see ‘Resolution’. Local listings will be scoured. Probably too early though. ** Shane Christmass, Hi, Shane! I got your book. I’m excited to read it. All is very well, I hope? ** Michael V, Hi! You are a person after my own heart and imagination! ** Ferdinand, Hi, man. Thanks for the link. I’ll get to listen to that now that I’m back to sitting in a chair rather than in a car seat. And now I’ve just seen your Jon Rafman shares too. Thanks triply! Hope you’re good. ** Dominik, Hi, Dominik! The trip was terrific. Oh, favorite park … hard to choose actually. They were all excellent in their own ways. Europapark is giant and beautifully, crazily laid out with solid rides. Tripsdrill, possibly my favorite, is an older park, super imaginatively themed on a low budget, with maybe the best log/water ride ever. It was the big surprise. Phantasialand is fantastic, yeah. Not huge, size-wise, but totally packed with great rides, and extremely beautifully themed, very otherworldly, and with two of the best coasters I’ve ridden: Taron and Black Mamba. Excellent! Wunderland Kalkar is tiny and basically for kids, but it was much sweeter and nice to be inside than I’d imagined. Dusseldorf was good. We just walked all over and looked at art all day then drove out of town a ways to climb around on this. My tooth strangely all but stopped hurting, which makes no sense but is much appreciated. I guess I should still go to the dentist appointment tomorrow, but I don’t want to. You sound extremely inspired and great! I love your idea of starting that private practice. How do you do that? Do you just advertise your services, or do you need to get, I don’t know, a certificate or anything? Would you do it at your place or find a place to do it? It seems like a really great idea to me! Tell me more! I’m good. Zac and I have to immediately get to work on the TV script revisions. Not looking forward to that whatsoever, but it’s not a choice. So that’s going to be a lot of my week, I think. And you? ** Master James, Hi, welcome. Well, I do certain things to disguise/protect the identities and locations of the slaves. I see those posts as a text/image exercise/exploration regarding eroticism and language and and flirting and how self-presentation works in that particular situation, and I feel uncomfortable about the idea of facilitating meet-ups because that’s not my interest at all. So, yes, I make the slaves hard to find. Not impossible to find, mind you. ** Jamie, Hi, J! The trip was excellent, thank you. Highlight: mm, not one. Tripsdrill was the big surprise and probably the funnest experience in general. Oh, at the last minute, we managed to get a room at Phantasialand’s sold-out and pretty amazing theme hotel the Ling Bao, and that was cool. Lowlight? Not really, strangely enough. Nothing that wasn’t at least okay. Yeah, it’s weird: the site/GoDaddy was acting the most horrible and problematic ever the first few days of the trip after being generally awful for a week, but, as of last night, knock on the rarest wood, it’s been behaving normally and well. Strange. The Japanese slaves: Not a new site, I just found a page on a usual site where someone listed their supposed slaves’ success rate at auction. Quite odd. I’m happy you’re one of those people who can function in a curious and cogent and entertaining manner on little sleep. I just all but shut down above my neck. Hannah’s already off to Brussels. That must be disconcerting and sad. Or are you digging the extra room? While being sad, I mean. My only return plans are the TV script work, ugh. Ideally, ha ha, it should consume my week, ugh. May your Monday be like a million Saturdays piled up so high you can see it from the space station. Mellow yellow love, Dennis. ** Jeff J, Hey! Great to see you, man! Sorry as ever about the blog accessing issues. Hopefully one of these days I’ll find a way to right that ship. I can imagine you’re swamped! So soon! Scary for you, def., but don’t be scared. It’s going to go great! Great book, great publisher, great you … you’re all set. I’m good. The ‘PGL’ unrolling is okay, but we’re having some very annoying issues at the moment that I can’t discuss and that will hopefully get resolved asap. I’m back to work on the ARTE TV script today. Other than the drudgery of the work ahead, all is going well on that front. Looks like a very possible green light at the moment. I do like Lewis Klahr. Have I done a post about his work? Maybe not. I’ll see if I can. ** Okay. Halloween’s grip on this blog continues in the form of a gig that I hope is highly suitable for the season. Blast it, if you want my opinion. See you tomorrow.