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Would you buy dirt from Dracula’s castle?

In 2000, I wrote an article about a famous print advertisement offering "genuine soil from Dracula's castle." Bad article, good topic. Time to happily redo. The Halloween Countdown entry for October Thou Art Fourth provides a closer inspection of the Dracula dirt amulet, complete with mega close-up shots that reveal just how much Dracula dirt looks like hot cocoa mix. Enjoy.

Posted by Matt on 10/03/2005. E-mail me!

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To reiterate, if you need to share a long url (meaning just about anything from ebay or amazon), you can:
a. learn to make a hyperlink with html (try webmonkey’s html teaching tool)
b. use a website like tinyurl.com to shorten the address (not as hard as it might sound)
c. paste the url address into the "Homepage" field and just say "Click my name!"
Not a total cake walk, but not rocket science either. I’m usually surfing the blog with Blazer, where the stretched out pages aren’t a problem, but I know how funky it gets in Firefox.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/05/2005 7:01 PM

I would have broke it open to see the dirt, but I have no self control. Also, I just got 3 of 4 Jnes Sodas (i’m behnd I know) They’re defnately not good, but candy corn was te only one I truly hated.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/05/2005 8:12 PM

Road Block–I WILL never be the same again. I need to tell one of my friends about it, she’ll be so shocked!!!!!

I got a job interview tomorrow for an office job at a company about a half-hour from my house. Dammit, I’m gonna have my B.A. in Communications in December, and the only work I can find is office work! It’s good work though, until my true career shows up. Gotta keep looking!

See, what I really wanna do is record and edit professional projects. I send emails to recording studios, and one in Philly told me there weren’t any job openings, but said to send my resume and a demo. I’m not much for impressions and stuff, but I wrote some of my own stuff and recorded it. I’m finishing that up, and will send it soon! You never know…

Wish me luck everyone!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/05/2005 8:32 PM

Rumania is actually an archaic English spelling of Romania. You’ll still see it in older books. So…who knows? Maybe it is indeed from the Carpathian Mountains, which are real, of course.

I certainly wouldn’t believe that dirt has any special powers, but who knows. Does anyone here watch Inuyasha? That weird witch raised Kikyo from the dead with…soil from her grave.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 10/05/2005 11:33 PM

Good luck.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/05/2005 11:33 PM

Love it. I’ve seen so many of those ads, as my dad has about 200 issues of Creepy and Eerie comics spanning from mid 60s and on. I’ve always thought to myself, "I’ll bet that things full of pixie stick powder… or kitty litter."
Fun stuff, and good article too.

Chestnuts roasted by RedLightBulbs @ 10/06/2005 5:57 PM

Thanks Matt!! The interview actually went well!

Chestnuts roasted by allison @ 10/06/2005 7:07 PM

James Warren should be known as he was the publisher/editor for Famous Monsters, Creepy, etc.

Chestnuts roasted by The Truth @ 10/09/2005 2:02 AM

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