1. Happy Halloween! I love Halloween; the day of horror, macabre, the spooky and gothic. 2. For Halloween, I think it's healthy to have this particular day to contemplate the darkness, the evil, the veil of life and death (not too closely or too realistically, of course). It's the day of horror, the day of … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Happy Halloween!
Halloween
Saturday Flotsam: Hammer Films and Not Much Else
1. My parents are in town visiting, so my schedule (such as it is) is thrown off, hence another Saturday Flotsam 2. I didn't have a lot of chance to get into the Halloween spirit this year, between work and other matters. I did get a chance to revisit Hammer Films' Horror of Dracula, starring … Continue reading Saturday Flotsam: Hammer Films and Not Much Else
Halloween Music
A little Halloween music for you to set the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QS0XfAQKM I can't believe this video is now ten years old. I keep meaning to make more like it, but don't find the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urajx_xCu8U The Jason Voorhees theme song, courtesy of the one and only Alice Cooper. (and all I'll say is that time … Continue reading Halloween Music
Batman Halloween
I'm way late on this, but it is still Halloween. I made this years and years ago, but I'm still pretty pleased with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QS0XfAQKM
Poem – “Halloween in a Suburb”
The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,And the trees have a silver glare;Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,And the harpies of upper air,That flutter and laugh and stare. For the village dead to the moon outspreadNever shone in the sunset’s gleam,But grew out of the deep that the dead years keepWhere the … Continue reading Poem – “Halloween in a Suburb”
Friday Flotsam: Mostly On Halloween
1. "The spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and so many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally to refuse to worship any of the hydra's heads."-J.R.R. Tolkien (from a letter written in late 1969) 2. Our problem with Halloween is that we miss half the … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Mostly On Halloween
Flotsam: Self-Examination, Plot Holes, Halloween-ness, and a Joke
1. I notice that I have a bad habit (and perhaps you do as well) that when I start to pray and try to meditate upon God that I tend to fall into criticism of modernity: thinking of how far the contemporary world is from the majesty of the Divine plan and how many ways … Continue reading Flotsam: Self-Examination, Plot Holes, Halloween-ness, and a Joke
For Halloween: ‘Don’t Drop That Knife’
(To the tune of 'Last Friday Night'...though more directly 'Don't Mine at Night') There’s a voice upon the breezeThere’s a screaming from the treesBodies all around the roomLast one left, girl, you are doomed! Just no way to reach the carSomeone’s moving in the yardWalls are dripping wet with goreNow he’s pounding at the door! … Continue reading For Halloween: ‘Don’t Drop That Knife’
Brief Thoughts on ‘The Shining’
Last night I watched The Shining for the first time with my family. Though obviously I’ve been familiar with it for a long time and I’ve seen many clips of it (which, unfortunately, meant that I kind of went in knowing more or less what was going to happen). Quick take: it’s pretty good. I … Continue reading Brief Thoughts on ‘The Shining’
It Came from Rifftrax: ‘House on Haunted Hill’
Life's been busy lately, but I wanted to make sure we got this one up for Halloween (more or less: it's late, but under the wire). In another live show (I really like grabbing these when I can; you get shorts, ad-libbing among the riffers, and the added energy of the crowd), Mike, Kevin, and … Continue reading It Came from Rifftrax: ‘House on Haunted Hill’
Serpent's Den 