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In 1964, Long Island housewife Helen Pfiel was arrested for handing out goody bags containing dog biscuits, steel wool pads, and arsenic laced ant traps to teenagers who she felt were too old to be trick-or-treating. Concerned parents contacted police and Phiel was arrested, taken in for psychiatric evaluation, and charged with child endangerment.
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Secondhand Swabs: These gross little Halloween treats are made with Q-Tips, mini marshmallows, and melted caramel. DIY
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‘If you have this candy at home, or your kids picked it up on Halloween, throw it out, as it’s been linked to at least three Canadian children killing themselves minutes after eating it.’
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Chocolate Deviled Eggs: White chocolate w/rice krispies & red sanding sugar, individually wrapped. $18.50
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Gravy Candy is here! Gravy is one of those things that improves just about everything it touches and that includes candy. This brown and white striped candy looks just like candy that grandma would keep in a bowl and tastes just like the herb-infused gravy she’d make for holiday meals. $5.95
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Authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin died after being forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. Severely dehydrated, the girl had a seizure and died days later.
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Despite their inherent messiness, everyone loves Cheetos. While fake cheesy goodness is something everyone can get behind, the Japanese have apparently taken this game day classic and enhanced it to, well, not make any sense. Introducing strawberry-dipped cheetos. Nothing more than the corn puffs sans the cheese and dipped in what appears to be a gooey strawberry-chocolate mixture, these recently released in Japan only morsels of contradictory goodness are reported to be “very good.”
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Teens Find Razor Blades In Halloween Candy
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What looks like forensic microscope slides with drops of blood-like specimen, is actually made from sugar, corn syrup and red food dye. It’s cheap and easy to make and will stand out from other ghoulish candies.
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Just before 10 p.m. on June 12, Adam Budge, 18, and Elijah Stai, 17, were hanging out at Budge’s East Grand Forks home when they mixed a white power — 2C-I — with melted chocolate and ate the drug-laced candy. They then went to a McDonald’s. An hour later, Stai began “freaking out” and acting as if he were “possessed,” foaming at the mouth, hyperventilating, and smashing his head against the ground. By 1:30 in the morning, Stai was dead.
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Gourmet Foie Gras Bubble Gum: For those evenings when you’re craving goose liver but don’t want to get off the couch we offer these Foie Gras Gumballs. Each 3-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ x 3/4″ (8.3 cm x 6.4 cm x 1.9 cm) tin contains about twenty-two gumballs that taste vaguely like the decadent french delicacy. £3.90
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A woman with special needs who was thought to have died from natural causes was found with candy wrappers stuffed down her throat when her body was being embalmed. When 70-year-old Kathleen Mcewan’s body was found at her apartment in Roxborough, Philadelphia, there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. However, when undertakers attempted to embalm her body the next day they discovered up to 10 inches of candy wrappers stuck in her throat.
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Polar Poo Bear Candy Dispenser! Pop open it’s head, fill it with candy, such as nerds, jelly beans, or anything small and round, white or brown color candy works best for effect. Then push on it’s legs and it poops it out the back! $4
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As much as everyone would love to see a bunch of stoned little kids running around dressed like baby Groot, or whatever, it’s probably a good thing that Colorado police are trying to make sure trick-or-treaters don’t accidentally eat any weed candy this year. The video intends to show parents how to identify an edible. The trouble, though, is that pot-infused candy is often visually indistinguishable from its non-paralysis-inducing counterpart—sometimes it’s literally just ordinary candy that’s been sprayed with cannabis oil—and if you munch on it as you would any other sweets, ignorant of its dark power, you might end up alone and afraid, taking shelter under your bedspread, begging for it to end.
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Give someone the gift of a Krabby Patty Coal Shaped Slider this year. Ingredients: Glucose syrup, sugar, gelatin, sorbitol, modified corn starch, citric acid, pectin, malic acid, artificial flavors, glazing agent (palm oil, carnauba wax), sodium citrate, artificial colors (caramel colors, titanium dioxide, yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40 , blue 1). $3.95
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Four days after Halloween 1970, Kevin Toston, a native of Detroit, died of a drug overdose. A drug analysis initially showed Kevin’s candy to be laced with heroin and quinine in powder form, but investigators later discovered that Kevin had stumbled upon his uncle’s drug stash and had accidentally poisoned himself. The family, fearful of charges of child neglect, sprinkled Kevin’s candy with the drugs in order to protect the uncle. No charges were filed.
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Have you visited IKEA lately? I could not believe yesterday in their food hall they have packets of marshmallow sheep with the title of GODIS SKUM. I have written a complaint and advised it should be rebranded. 99 kr
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Spirits were high for Rakesh alias Guddu and his three cronies. They were attending a marriage party on the lawns of the Jehangirabad Palace, which adjoins the district magistrate’s residence in Hazratganj. A video clip (now with the police) clearly shows Guddu dancing away on the lawns, whipping out his gun occasionally and firing in the air. It was perhaps for a break or on an impulse that he left for the candy store located on the same premises, some 50 yards away from the lawn. The youth came in the store around 11.30 pm. The candy store had already put up a closed sign outside its door as it usually does at 10.30 pm, though it does entertain families who might drop by after that hour. When they asked for a cassata candy attandant informed them it wasn’t available. At which, Rakesh stepped ahead, took out his pistol, placed it on the 20-year-old Raghuraj’s temple and shot him dead.
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The Barfo Family Candy was unleashed by the Topps bubblegum company in 1990. The armless & legless torsos featuring an unhappy, nauseated, white bread family, with their heads mounted on accordion-like shaped bodies containing a delightful glop- like gel/”candy” (ingredients: sugar, water, glycerin, gelatin, citric acid, potassium sorbate, artificial flavors, artificial colors). $99.00
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Weird Japanese candy
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A Denver man accused of shooting his wife while she was on the phone with 911 dispatchers had eaten marijuana-infused candy before the incident, authorities say. Investigators reportedly found receipts for “Karma Kandy Orange Ginger” and said he appeared under the influence of drugs during an interview. Kristine Kirk, 44, was shot in the head Monday almost 13 minutes into her call with 911 dispatchers. Police had not yet arrived at the time of her shooting. Throughout the call, the AP reports, Kirk said her husband, who was reportedly hallucinating and asking her to shoot him, had frightened her and her children.
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Cricket Crunch Bar: “Cricket protein is similar to beef and salmon when it comes to quality protein,” he said “It has all of the essential amino acids and is packed with B vitamins with a perfect balance of an Omega 6:3 ratio of 3:1. In addition, crickets have more calcium than milk and more iron than spinach.” $3.95 $1.25
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In 1974, 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died as a result of eating cyanide-laced Pixy Stix given to him by his own father, who likely wanted to collect on a large insurance policy. The dad had poisoned 4 other children’s Pixy Stix as well to make the act appear “random,” but none of the other children ate the poisoned candy.
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Taste testing odd Halloween candy. I forgot to rate the last candy, but you could easily tell what the rating was.
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Peppermint Broken Glass Candy: When my dad got home, he actually thought I had bought some weird glass sculpture and freaked out. Then, to make it even better, I smashed the whole ‘glass sculpture’ with the rolling pin right in front of him. Recipe
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One of the killers of a father-of-three has boasted about the cowardly murder on Facebook from prison – saying ‘I kill people for candy’. Curtis Delima, 22, was convicted of murdering 47-year-old Mark Witherall in April 2008, along with his smirking and sniggering teenage accomplices Mark Elliott and Gerry Cusden. The trio who were accused of behaving like a pack of hyenas as they kicked the builder to death after he refused to give them Halloween candy at his home in Whitstable, Kent, in October 2007.
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The Candy Bar is an item used for the Homeless sidequest in Silent Hill: Downpour. It can be found in three different locations depending on the puzzle difficulty. The candy bar must be given to Homer, the homeless man in the Pearl Creek underground entrance, to complete the sidequest.
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John P Roberts, 55, a thief out on bail, strangled girl, six, to death and hid her body under his bed after luring her to his motel room with Halloween candy.
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After many long years, the hugely popular candy ramen set has returned and it’s much improved! Form the candy dough into the dumpling press, add the stuffing and squeeze! Next come the ramen noodles that magically solidify as they hit the soup! $2.99
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On Tuesday, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported that the Waka Flocka Flame affiliate and Brick Squad Monopoly member Slim Dunkin was shot in an altercation that began over a stolen piece of candy. “The information we’re getting, it’s unconfirmed, but witnesses are saying this whole thing started over a piece of candy,” homicide detective David Quinn told “Action News” on camera. According to witnesses, Dunkin, born Mario Hamilton, grabbed a piece of candy from another man while inside an Atlanta recording studio, which led to an argument and then a fistfight. The scuffle ended with Slim being shot once in the chest. He was then transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Hose Nose: You strap it onto your face, uncork the nose and let the candy drip onto your tongue. $1.69
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Murder, Inc. as they were dubbed by the sensationalist press of the day were a loose coalition of gangsters based out of Brownsville, Brooklyn in the 1930s and early 1940s. Though its members were involved in a variety of illicit activities including loan sharking, prostitution, gambling, bootlegging and labor racketeering, they became infamous for their role as the New York syndicate’s so-called “execution squad.” However, their reach extended far beyond the East Coast, they were implicated or suspected in numerous killings across the United States, as far away as Florida, Los Angeles and Detroit. Based out of a 24 hour candy store called Midnight Roses at Saratoga and Livonia Ave in Brownsville, its members were always on call at a moment’s notice to go to an assignment once the directive was handed down. The candy store was located under the elevated train that brought many people too and from Manhattan.
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The Red Tent Coffee Shop in the Aomori Prefecture of Japan offers anatomically correct gummy candies in the shape of insect larvae. The candies are filled with a blueberry-flavored jam to stand in for the larval guts. 1,000円
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Happy Halloween+ My Halloween Candy! YUM!
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In 2000 James Joseph Smith, 49, of Minneapolis had handed out candy bars that he had put needles in. He was later charged with one count of adulterating a substance with intent to cause death, harm, or illness.
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Penis Shape Dispenses Liquid Marshmallow Foam: $7.37
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A man who killed his daughter by attacking her with a baseball bat as she was eating her Halloween candy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday. Robert Kelly, who told police he was “a little too in the Halloween spirit”, went into the bedroom of his 20-year-old daughter Megan at their home in Oxford, Michigan and beat her to death in May last year. A police dispatcher testified: ‘I asked him if he knew who did it. And he stated, “Yes, I did.”
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Pimp your teeth with the off the hook Grillz Candy. Most people can’t afford a diamond-encrusted platinum grill. We know we can’t. Fortunately, most people can afford this tasty candy one. Simply place the lollypop like end into your mouth and suck away (it works like a pacifier). The flavor of the Grillz you receive will be a surprise as they come in sour apple, peach, watermelon and strawberry. $2.99
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Heaven Sutton murder 6/27/2012 Chicago, IL: Shot to death while selling candy in front of her house.
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Chocolate Scrabble: 32 individually wrapped chocolates, a candy “paper” playing board and a gold caramel trophy. Exclusive licensee for Candyland in a chocolate edition. Kosher certified. $29.50
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Prosecutors believe they have a CRUCIAL piece of evidence that proves Aaron Hernandez murdered Odin Lloyd. Prosecutors say they can prove Hernandez stopped at a gas station hours before the murder and purchased gas, cigarettes and BLUE COTTON CANDY FLAVORED BUBBLICIOUS BUBBLE GUM. After Odin was murdered, investigators say they found a shell casing in his rental car that matched the caliber of the bullet used to kill the 27-year-old … and next to the casing — A CHEWED PIECE OF BLUE COTTON CANDY FLAVORED BUBBLICIOUS BUBBLE GUM.
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DIY set for making Sushi candy, with candy rice, egg, tuna, salmon roe and seaweed, flavour: grape & soda Popin’ Cookin’ is a series of edible DIY candy in funny shapes, that you can easily make yourself by adding water to the ingredients of the package content: 6x bags of powder with different candy ingredients, 1x spoon, 1x pipette, 1x candy material for seaweed 1x mold, size of the box: width: 14.5cm (5.7″), height: 13cm (5.1″), depth: 4.5cm (1.7″), incl. instructions with pictures. $2.43
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Robert Durst, the real-estate heir accused of urinating on a Texas CVS cash register and candy rack when he was picking up a prescription, is one of the strangest cases of a rich man gone off the rails. On Tuesday, after arranging for Durst to turn himself in to authorities in connection with the alleged incident at the drug store, Lewis once again defended his client, whom he said suffers from a form of autism known as Asperger’s syndrome. “He wasn’t arguing with anybody and he didn’t seem agitated,” Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva told The New York Post, adding that she did not know what the prescription was for. “He just peed on the candy. Skittles, I think.”
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Have you ever wanted to try haggis, but you just can’t seem to make it to Scotland for some of that entrails-y goodness? Archie McPhee has the answer! For a scant $4.95 a piece, you can treat yourself to these gastronomical delights. While in Scotland, I managed to avoid sampling this traditional Scottish dish of sheep’s entrails and spices, boiled inside a sheep’s stomach. McPhee’s Angry Scotsman’s version is made of butterscotch gummy and crafted to look like actual haggis. $4.95
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Eric Morse, who was 5 in 1994, was asked by some older boys in his Chicago neighborhood to steal candy for them. He said no. He didn’t want to steal. The older boys, who were 10 and 11 at the time, determined that Eric, who was growing up in a home marked by frequent parental absence, must be punished for his honesty. The older boys led Eric to an abandoned apartment on the 14th floor of the Ida B. Wells housing project, a high-rise building that had the reputation of being a home base for drug dealers. They led Eric into the empty apartment. It is where they would execute Eric. The older boys then picked the 5-year-old up and threw him out a window. Eric’s body dropped 14 stories.
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p.s. Hey. Very shortly I’ll be heading to the airport and, for better or worse, I’ll need take the blog’s immediate future with me. So, if you want to hang out here for the next 3 1/2 weeks, please do, just know that you’ll be staring at the post up top when you’re here. Feel more than free to leave any comments you want during the interim, and I’ll respond to them as soon as I get back. The blog will return full force, albeit with a temporarily quite jet lagged me at the helm, on Monday, November 14th. ** Dominik, Hi!!! If it was New Years I’d make a New Years resolution to become an email expert, but it’s not. I think I can live just fine without reading Mr. Manson’s self-explanation. I think I probably share your Saturday love’s love. Hey, pal, have a really great few weeks, and I look way forward to talking with you on the other side. Love giving you a Happy Halloween gift that isn’t Hose Nose, G. ** Misanthrope, Thanks, G. Make your next few weeks count, and I’ll endeavor to do the very same! ** David Ehrenstein, Hm, okay, the … connection is that Glenn Gould was a prostitute? Or maybe Beethoven was? Or … ? ** Damien Ark, Your laughter is ringing conceptually in my ears, and it sounds like sleigh bells. Thanks, man. ** _Black_Acrylic, Indeed, and indeed again, and one more indeed! Thanks for the trip wish. Here’s hoping. I hope when you close the cover on the George Eliot book you will be sitting in your new throne. Love to you, and hoping everything with the flat sorts itself out impeccably. ** Bill, Thanks, Bill. I don’t think I’m going to get SF on this trip, but, if I do, I’ll give you a shout in advance. Cool you’re digging the Benderson. Have the best few weeks, my friend. ** malcolm, Hi, malcom! Yes, I loved the film. It’s really beautiful and rich and mesmerising and all kinds of great things. And how amazing and deserved that it’s nominated for the festival’s top prize! It’s a great festival, so that’s really quite something. Big respect! It was really nice meeting and getting to talk with Alexander. He seemed really great. And one of the film’s stars was there and very cool too! Thanks so much for alerting me, and, yeah, I’m greatly enjoying our correspondence and hope we’re only getting started. Great attitude about your work and future. I swear it’s only going to get more and more rewarding. Thanks. Hopefully Zac and I will make big progress on our own film while I’m offsite, and I look forward to sharing news and getting to be the sharee of yours. Great luck with the script and with everything else, and see you again soon. ** Tea, Hi, Tea! Oh, wow, you know who layallyourloveonme is? I suspect a bunch of the escort posts are fakes in some way or another. Good, become the expert on textual sexiness, and give me some hints. I certainly can’t argue against dumping all of your fantasies into your work as a strategy. I think that gives the writing an energy and insider need or something that you then don’t even need to worry about. It’s just there inherently. Psychotic and sexy is not an unlikely or bad combination? Did I just say that, ha ha? I hope you have an excellent next few weeks, and it’ll be great catch up on the other side. Take care. ** Paul Curran, Luckily, so far, there’s always been at least one escort who has at least one moment of linguistic genius. Ooh, hitobashira. I’m going to find some time in LA to join you in that research. That’s gorgeous. Well, gorgeous is a weird word, but, you know. And the human skeleton at Universal! Can there be any doubt that Nintendoland is heavily involved? More research. I hope you and your babe and your kiddo manage to have an amazing Tokyo-enhanced Halloween, man! See you soon! Love, me. ** Jamie, Howdy, Jamie! BreakableBrawn was a laugh riot, poor him. Yep, I’m all packed and ready to go, eek. And I’m so behind on recent giant, shitty blockbusters that the flight should be a god damned film festival from expensive hell. I hope you have the most righteous few weeks, buddy, and catch up with you ere not too long at all. Nicotine patched love, Dennis ** Montse! Wow! What a great pre-trip gift to see you! ‘Jerk’ was at Sitges? It won a prize? I’m out of it. Cool, especially that you liked it. Yeah, surprisingly, I think the film might be even more intense than the stage play. I’m happy you got to see it. I’m literally about to run out the door and scoot to CDG then on to LA to work on the new film. It’s been four years trying to get to this point, and we’re excited. I want to hear about your crazy year and your crazy or not crazy present and your new pad. Please come back in a few weeks. That’d be awesome. Much love to you and Xet! ** Brian, Hey, Brian. Brautigan’s cool, a good stylist, and the hippie stuff has held up as kind of charm offensive. The Benderson book comes highly recommenced by me as you already know. Happy b’day to your bro. I’m happy to take off knowing you’re at the tail end of some happy times, hopefully to lengthen. Take care of yourself, and it’ll be good to catch up in a few. ** Right. I decided to pause the blog and wrap up the local Halloween festivities with the above guide re: what to buy and not to buy in order to satisfy your trick or treaters or yourselves or your friends or worst enemies. I hope it helps. Have splendid Halloweens in any case, as will I, by hook or crook, and let me know what’s going on with you while I’m away, and I’ll talk with you again in just a few weeks. See you on Monday, the 14th!
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Dennis, have a safe trip and a wonderful time in L.A.!! I can’t wait to hear all about it when you get back!
Love making your 11-hour-45-minute flight last only for 11 minutes and 45 seconds, Od.
Hi Dennis, Sorry I have not been around my cousin died, and it was a shock that left everyone heartbroken.
I learned that two friends I knew in high school died one from Cystic-fibrosis and the other from a drug overdose but he was into basically any/all drugs he could find in the 1990s and early 2000s even somehow affording to take MDMA/MDA/or basically any powder or pill sold as ecstasy for an entire year nonstop. I never took any of it as I saw how it destroyed his short and long term memory. I will keep him alive by writing about him.
You showed up in a dream I had, the setting or plot was basically that of your novel MY LOOSE THREAD but you were filming at a school and mostly everyone who did not go to the gym as most people did thinking they would be in the movie/film/documentary, instead ran off into the woods to safety.
Good luck with the filming, editing, and promotion of your film.
What is your favorite candy? I love fruit gummies including Turkish delight/lokum, Hershey’s milk chocolate, and all types of black liquorice including the very salty drop salimak from the Netherlands/Belgium/Northern Germany/Scandinavian countries.
Have a safe trip.
John
Hi Dennis! Here’s to a safe, productive and fruitful vacation! I’m assuming that’s what it is, but if not, disregard. Not being from the US I had no idea of the wealth of bizarre and upsettingly fecal Halloween candy that was available, tho some of the home made ones are very fucking cool. It’s also hilarious if sad to see all of my mother’s concerns about laced candy be realized in one way or another. Who knows what insanity will this Halloween bring us.
Also! We have finished and released our EP! all with numbered cassette tapes of a run of 66. I would love to mail one to you, so if/when you can, let me know where to address it and I’ll put one of those babies in a box for you, no charge. I wanna thank you for letting us use your writing for one of our tracks, as you’re a great souce of inspiration.
If you wish to listen to it, our bandcamp is thus: https://lonelyisaneyesore.bandcamp.com/track/thin-skin
As always thanks for a strange and entertaining post, hope you and yours are well and thriving. Take care!
Best,
Juan
I have to get some of that larval candy, scatological snacks, and melting blood sponge. I fear they’ve gone out of production though.
The Benderson collection is a bit uneven (unsurprising), but the good stuff is so good. Since I seem to have a mild case of COVID, I have plenty of at-home time to enjoy it.
Bill
Hope you have a great trip xx
Hey Dennis. I saw Luka last night. We talked about you. All praise of course. And you are in LA! How long are you here? Do you need any help with the movie? I could take some still photography of the production if you wanted. I need a project. Anyway, hope we can hang out. Love, B
Hi Dennis! Sorry I’ve been gone the past few days, had sort of a wacky crazy weekend. Have fun in LA! Bad time to come back on my part, haha. As if haggis wasn’t enough now they’ve got gummy haggis… I’m terrible with anything gummy, totally grosses me out. But we’ve got halloween decorations up in my office now so I’m getting into the holiday spirit. Too bad I live in an apartment building because it sounds kind of fun to hand out candy to kids trick or treating. (No relation to the subject matter of this post.) And that Bernhard anecdote you mentioned in your last comment to me before the weekend is wild. Yeah, it’s always sort of crazy when I hear about how charming he apparently was. I wonder how he managed to keep making friends even when his whole thing was pretty openly excavating people to use for fiction and then dumping them, but obviously a whole lot more probably went into that than just material for writing. Have a nice 3.5 weeks!
Here at the East Leeds Recovery Hub things have been going ok. With the help of the physios today I walked twice as far as I did yesterday, so my mobility is getting better. Also, we now have the completion date for the purchase of my new flat: Friday October 28th is the red letter day. Shit is gonna get real, as they say.
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Hope you’re having a good time in LA working on your next big project. I’ll be in OC tomorrow, and again on Halloween, hoping to check out a haunt on Halloween, maybe, or just relax on the beach, if possible. Things are pretty scary right now. My Dad has major heart surgery next month (he’s had a pacemaker since he was 8 or 9). He will probably take half a year to recover from it, too, because of how extensive it is. He’s probably the most in shape healthy eating person I know but DNA is king and decides fate for us all, I guess. Anyway it sucks just like being homeless in the bay and wishing to find a place or whatever… Most people will have a copy of my book long before I hold it, since I have no physical address. Keep good health, please, so that you may spoil us with you beautiful work. Love… d
Was at the bank yesterday and paid for my new flat. Money has been received by the solicitors and now the whole thing is definitely in motion. My brother was saying how much I was looking forward to eating a takeaway at my new address and the lady at the bank tells us “we serve a man from a local restaurant called the Spice Zone and he’s really nice.” That place is my takeaway of choice so I see this coincidence as a definite good omen.
LESLIE JORDAN, A TRUE ORIGINAL, HAS DIED!
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-10-24/comedian-and-actor-leslie-jordan-dies-after-car-crash-at-age-67
Hope you’re having a fruitful and productive and fun time in LA, Dennis.
I’m just about to fly to New York.
If any blog readers are New York based, please come along on Friday 28th October to Amphetamine Sulphate’s event at 99 Canal Street in Chinatown. Doors at 7pm, 7:30pm start sharp! Readings from Audrey Szasz, myself, Adam Lehrer, Philip Best, and Kaycie Hall (reading the work of Isabelle Nicou). Come and say hey!
Oh Dennis, I miss your updating of this blog a lot, but I hope you’re enjoying your time off and having a great and productive time in LA.
I enjoyed this interview with James Benning a lot and thought you and maybe some other blog-readers would like it too.
https://toneglow.substack.com/p/film-show-019-james-benning?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=21385&post_id=79397158&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Boomeronic love,
Jamie
Hey Dennis!
My name’s Tim, I’m an artist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. This is maybe an odd question, but I’m finishing up a video work for a show coming up at my friend’s gallery here in Melbourne and I’ve been looking for someone to write an accompanying text for the work and I think you’d be really great for it. Would you be interested at all in possibly writing/making something for the show? It can take any form you’d like, I feel like you’d interpret the subject matter well! I was particularly inspired by your Jerk / Through Their Tears series and performance with Giselle Vienne while making the work.
I wasn’t really sure how to contact you so I thought maybe this would be the best way? Although I think you’re having a break from the blog at the moment to work on your new film so you might not see this for a minute but shoot me an email (timmarkhardy@gmail.com) when you get back if you’re interested and we can talk a bit more about it there!
Hopefully hear from you soon and Happy Halloween,
Tim 🙂
RIP Rodney Graham, a very great artist. I remember seeing a beautiful film by him in Chicago 2002 of flour being sieved and falling across the keys of a typewriter.
Sorry to report that things re Leeds United are not so good at the moment. The victory over Chelsea that reached the Paris newswires was the last time we won a game, our fans are clamouring to sack the board and the reign of genius manager Marcelo Bielsa suddenly feels like it was a very long time ago. Thank goodness there is the upcoming World Cup in Qatar to allow us a chance to regroup in November.
Good stat: we’ve had a Queen, a King and 2 Prime Ministers since Leeds last won a game in the Premier League.
@ Bill, cheers!
Please disregard my previous post because last night Leeds went to Liverpool and we only went and won 2-1! So all is now forgiven and yes, football is a fickle mistress.
The big news is that I will finally be leaving the East Leeds Recovery Hub on Wednesday next week and moving into my new flat.
Today’s news about Leeds United is that earlier this afternoon we came back from 3-1 down to win 4-3, and here is the winning goal. Scenes!
Vid was removed so try this instead.
Adieu Leslie
Ben, that *is* a good stat!
Hope your LA trip is going well, Dennis and Zac.
Bill
Hey Dennis, hope your trip’s going great 🙂
My name is Pedro Minet. I was featured in the newest SCAB issue – that piece with the Guided by Voices song title and android gay sex heh.
I saw that you mentioned + complimented it on here a little while ago and have been wanting to drop by & thank you, say anything really, but couldn’t build up the courage until now.
Not to be a total annoying fanboy – I’m sure you’ve heard what I’m about to say a million times before – but your work truly means everything to me; pretty much saved my life when I found it online at 15. The fact that I was the only one around me who knew about it cause it’s never been released here in Brazil made it all the more personal & special heh
You’re one of my absolute biggest literary/artistic heroes, so seeing you mention me and my work in a positive way was super wild and unbelievable. I’ll definitely never get over it, Top 10 life moment for sure 🙂
Not sure if I’ll start commenting regularly, I’ve been quietly lurking this place on-and-off forever so I might just continue to do that & maybe chime in once in a while with some random Brazilian twink anecdotes or whatever. Who knows though, I never thought I’d get over my shyness to talk to you directly so at this point I guess anything is possible.
Hope this wasn’t too cringy lol, and that you get home safely!!
Cheers from South America,
Minet <3
Hey man,
Hope you’re having a great time in LA. Can’t wait to see the results.
coop
you noes how i am.. but it’ll subside
it always does
just here to wish you the bestest samhain ever ( or as you kids call it
“hallow
ween” )
I’ll see you in the catacombs..
rX
[oh gods i can’t remember my login bullshit & google wants my inside measureameso if this doesn’t go through Missy will send it for me]
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF QUEER ART
LYENDECKER
Can I request more gay porn posts?
PLEASE! I’ve lost track what hay porn is up to. Back in th 80’s i knew several performers. Thwy’re gone now 9alas)
hi dennis *_*
candy’s so creepy. i’d love to work in a candy factory or something.
i hope the preproduction is great. what’s it like to be working on a film? do you really plan things out when you write, kind of like you have to do when you’re preparing to shoot a film? what is it like for you to work with actors? and in your films what is the balance between improvisational dialogue/movement and scripted stuff? everything’s so smooth and natural but so rhythmic.
Roman
I saw your list of your 11 favorite haunted house visits on FB, so it looks like you were able to have a good time researching the film!
Back when I was a child in elementary school in the ’80s, a cop turned up to solemnly warn us about the dangers of LSD contained in stick-on tattoos given out by drug dealers. The drugs change, but these urban legends are a permanent fixture in America’s fears.
I hope you’re not too jetlagged upon return.
How much more pre-production work remains? Do you have a tentative date for the shoot?
The big news is that since last week I am broadcasting live from my new flat! There is a photo of my new front room here with artworks, books and records still to be relocated. I am currently getting carers visit me 4 times a day in order to help me into bed, wake me up or prepare food etc, plus Mum and my brother are always on hand too. It is a big change of lifestyle but I look forward to this new regime very much.
Hope you’re recovering from the flight and enjoying the weekend, Dennis. See you tomorrow…
Bill