All Hallows Eve

My second favorite holiday.

First Off, a complaint: I love to see originality in costumes. I tend toward the conceptual, making up something out of my head, or, if that fails, going as Alice Cooper.

Anyway, I propose a moratorium on "sexy" angels, nurses, schoolgirls, maids, etc. Everytime I see one, I feel like saying "Wow...Did you come up with that all by yourself?!". Naturally, if any of these are Undead, that's a different story...

Oh, and fellas...Going as Mr. T is one thing, but going in blackface is an entirely different thing. I'm not overly P.C. or anything, but some of the costumes I saw over the weekend were toeing a very fine line. You might wanna refrain from that. And speaking of blackface: Thanks for confirming this Right Wing Talking Point, you stupid fuck.

Secondly, I was trying to find something scary to post, and I came across the above. The footage is from the early Danish Expressionist film Haxan, a classic of horror. The music, equally sublime, is provided by the band Coil from their classic paen to Pier Paollo Pasolini Horse Rotorvator. Scary. Actually, this is scarier (or funnier).

Finally, I've been annoying folks with the quote below, but it's a Wizard tradition. It's about Werewolves:

"formulae ueteres exorsismorum et excommunicationum strigas et fictos lupos credere daemon pellem lupinamin trunco quodam cauae arboris occultandum halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween metamorphoses lycanthropie possunt inquam metamorphoses lycanthropie possunt inquam halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween" (The Misfits "Halloween II").



Beware of Razorblade Apples.

The Inconvenient Truth

Hmmm.

It seems like Global Warming might have disasterous consequences. Economic ones.

Will they listen now? We're talking about $$$$!!!!

No.

Gay Marriage

Christ, not this again. They might be getting desperate:

"'Activist judges try to define America by court order', Bush told the crowd of 4,000 at Silver Creek High School, flanked by local Rep. Mike Sodrel, R-Ind., who is running for re-election. 'Just this week in New Jersey, another activist court issued a ruling that raises doubt about the institution of marriage. We believe marriage is between a man and a woman'."

I spent a long time in Indiana. Hell, I graduated from High School out in God's country, and it doesn't shock me at all to read the account here of such reactionary sentitments. Indiana is a reactionary state, by and large, at least in the southern portion, which is where the Klan is still active. It is also a place where Bush could sell his bullshit lies at this late point, where as the rest of the country is starting to wise up. Indiana is a lot like George Bush: Stupid, short sighted and paranoid.

Where I used to live, a little slice of heaven known as "Bright", though it was anything but, was full of recent transplants who were fleeing from the nasty realities of ...Western Hills, to the idyl that was a willful actualization of a Simulacra known as Mayberry R.F.D.

Yes, I understand why they love Bush in Indiana. That's why I left.

Oh, here's some context on Gay Marriage, or rather, a way to think about it.

Winning the War/Emboldening Terrorism

This can't be good:

"Nearly one of every 25 weapons the military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing."

Can't imagine what might have happened to them, though I would imagine that there is a good possibility that they are being used to kill Americans, or will be.

As my father would say, "This is more of a goat-fuck everyday".

Lynn Cheney

Ah yes! Liberal Bias!

Embargo...Bartertown...Screwed!!!

Bush, Cheney and the duality of man:

"Bush: The U.S. doesn't torture. Cheney: Oh, yes it does!"

Actually, not really a duality perse...more like MasterBlaster from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, with Bush in the part of the big stupid one.

Holy Shit, I can't wait until these lunatics are held accountable.


UPDATE: "I mean...no we don't"

Jedi Mind Trick

The Runner Up in the Green Screen Challenge.