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09/30/2006: Halloween + Beer.

Better an hour or so past deadline than two hours or so past deadline. It’s Saturday, I know, but let’s consider this as Friday’s Halloween Countdown entry, for organization’s sake. It’s a short, meandering ditty about Halloween’s frequent team-ups with beer. I don’t know.

Wow, I can’t believe we’re up to fifteen Countdown articles already. Time to go start preparing next week’s batch of goodies. Be good, you.

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Beer?! >:O Matt this is not very halloweeny.

MEH.

Sorry for the criticism.

First post!

Ghosted by Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 12:55 AM EDT

I’ll be good! I like beer!

Ghosted by gramsci @ 09/30/2006 12:56 AM EDT

Beer can be pretty halloweeny if you give it a chance, Fierce Almond.

Ghosted by Kris @ 09/30/2006 12:58 AM EDT

Oh yes, and they spelled Oktoberfest with a C.

I will cry tonight over that one.

Why were Elvira and the Cryptkeeper so popular in the late 80s – mid 90s? I mean, yeah, The Cryptkeeper had his shows/movies, but Elvira? Why was she popular?

Oh right, I completely forgot… boobs.

Sorry for not including that in the first post.

Ghosted by Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 12:59 AM EDT

Oh I like beer, but I only like Killian’s and I can’t drink it because I’m 15.

Ghosted by Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 1:00 AM EDT

Matt,

Will there be another Halloween contest this year? And thank you for the orgasmic articles, they make me not need to take the happy pills anymore.

Ghosted by Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:01 AM EDT

Yeah, there will be. I’ll come up with one this weekend.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/30/2006 1:03 AM EDT

The best part of this article was the song lyrics to Muppet Show episode. Screw Death Becomes Her.

Speaking of the Crypt-Keeper, in the latest Halloween edition of Wizard Magazine is an article on the Rise and Fall of EC Comics. They also have the scriest comic moments and the Halloween Costume winners. Grand Prize winner dressed in an AWESOME Optimus Prime and Megatron homemade costume.

Speaking of Macho and Elizbeth, they’re going to show the SNME Halloween episode from the 80s on WWE later on this month. Both are featured in it.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 09/30/2006 1:14 AM EDT

You win points for correctly calling Frankenstein’s Monster “Frankenstein’s Monster.” Yet these points are DEDUCTED because you completely forgot to drench the Cryptkeeper’s speech in bad morbid puns! Shame on you, or rather, SLAIN ON BOO!! AAAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!!

Ghosted by Mars @ 09/30/2006 1:19 AM EDT

Great to hear it. And I also forgot to ask, what is the commercial you put a picture of in the article, and is there anyway I could watch it?

Ghosted by Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:22 AM EDT

And before I go;

Bring in the 80s Halloween ads and trailers!

Ghosted by Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:24 AM EDT

For those that dont think beer can be very Halloween-ish, check out Ship Yard’s Pumpkin Head Ale. Even if you dont like beer, the logo on the bottle is kick ass. (Ship Yard brewery is in Portland, Maine.)

Ghosted by Heather @ 09/30/2006 1:26 AM EDT

Wooooooo!

Beer + halloween = another Elm Street sequel!

Ghosted by Roadblock @ 09/30/2006 1:31 AM EDT

Awesomeeee! But was that seriously the only Halloween beer you could find? There is “Pumpkin Ale”, “Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale”, and, my personal favorite, “Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale” just to name a couple of the spookified ales. Pumpkinhead rocks because it has a picture on it of a pretty menacing pumpkin monster on the label: http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/16927.jpg
You could also make the stretch and go for things like “Dead Guy Ale” with the awesome skeleton monster label. Central Market, Whole Foods, or Kroger should have most of those. Kicking back with haunted beer, kettle corn, and the Halloweentown 1&2 DVD.. nothing finer. Except Elvira. What a frigg’n babe!

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/30/2006 2:08 AM EDT

I take a break from watching Tales from the Crypt:Season 3 Box-Set to get online — and I run into the Cryptkeeper on X-E, too! Now, I know I’m going to dream about that ugly sideshow freak/mummy hybrid.

Ghosted by Review the World @ 09/30/2006 2:10 AM EDT

Beer and Halloween candy is a bad idea, though. But both are good seperately.

Ghosted by Todd @ 09/30/2006 2:25 AM EDT

Hey, I idolized Elvira as a kid! In fact, I wrote a kind of tribute to her in my own tribute to the Halloween season (click my name if you have five minutes to kill).

So does this mean I am correct in assuming that the zombie football player campaign of the early/middle 90s was NOT beer based??? Why am I the only person who remembers this?!?!

Ghosted by broomstickjockey @ 09/30/2006 2:35 AM EDT

Last year I drank too much while handing out candy. Fell out the door when some kids showed up. Then the mrs. took over door duty. Another sad story from me.
Most of my stories are drug or booze related. I must sound like a drunken junkie. Reality is: I drink like once a month. I just make it worth it.
Sam Adams Oktoberfest has become the fav ’round here. Will be drinking it while putting together PIZZA WITH A FACE later.

Ghosted by Fungusmungus @ 09/30/2006 5:17 AM EDT

Sam Adams October fest is one of my favorite things about the fall. Out here in potato-land, the seasonal brews are hard to come by.

I remember always being delighted anytime Spuds was dressed in something other than a hawaiian shirt. I have always been strangely drawn to Elvira. Her uselessness intrigues and inspires me.

Ghosted by MissJess @ 09/30/2006 8:26 AM EDT

Ah, Matt- I miss beer more than anything. Due to my stupid Crohn’s Disease and the 8,000 pills I take daily, I have not had a sip of the sweet sweet nectar since April 5th…I remember it like it was yesterday. I AM however, getting rip roaring drunk on my 25th birthday in November no matter what- I even warned my doctor in advance to be prepared to see me the next morning just in case!

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 09/30/2006 8:35 AM EDT

Sam Adams Octoberfest beer rocks! I enjoyed it muchly.

Ghosted by Jeff Mack @ 09/30/2006 9:06 AM EDT

Pennsylvania doesn’t sell alcohol in grocery stores, so I’ve missed out on the displays. Not that I’m into beer anyway, but still. The mystique and all.

Last night I just watched the WCW episode when Miss Elizabeth makes the apology tape and Macho Man has to watch it. Pre-real-life divorce, post-WCW ‘divorce’, I think? I don’t know – it was pretty boring. Had I paid to come watch some hardcore action in the ring and got stuck with a stupid video of Miss Elizabeth sitting on a tree swing, I would have been pissed.

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 09/30/2006 9:19 AM EDT

I got nothin’ but love for Elvira, but she shouldn’t be ragging on the Cryptkeeper’s “piece of flair”.

I’ve tried diligently over the past few days to cobble together the necessary elements for a “zombie Roddy Piper” costume, but it’s looking like it ain’t gonna happen. I found a cheap-ass “Hotrod” t-shirt on Ebay easily enough, but I’ve had a helluva time tracking down a cheap kilt. (By “cheap”, I mean something preferably under $20.) Thoroughly discouraged, I’ve decided to forego the whole “gimmick-zombie” idea and just be a straight zombie. I’m going to do it right, though: top-of-the-line makeup, prosthetic bite-mark on the neck, color contacts, the works. Halloween comes but once a year, so I see no problem with sacrificing the timely payment of my internet and cell-phone bills in order to look scary for one night.

Ghosted by The Yeti @ 09/30/2006 9:30 AM EDT

“When you go the supermarket, there will be beer.”

…a fact I didn’t know until I was, I don’t know, fifteen. I live in Rhode Island. We don’t sell beer in supermarkets, here.

Ghosted by Katherine @ 09/30/2006 10:43 AM EDT

Is it possible that maybe one of my blog posts could not be deleted. Anyways, I have been trying to say that Pete’s Wicked Ale is great. Try some for Halloween. It has a better taste than Octoberfest, and from my experience, is cheaper too.

Ghosted by Old E @ 09/30/2006 10:50 AM EDT

Yeti: Just buy the fabric. Red and green plaid fabric is like uber-cheap. Just buy a long enough piece to wrap around you in the form of a kilt. Add a black leather belt and a slit up the side with some buttons maybe and you have your kilt for like 5-10 bucks.

Ghosted by Old E @ 09/30/2006 11:03 AM EDT

Wooh!

Shit yeah. Beer!

I love the good old US of A for it’s love of making _everything_ holiday themed.

But alas i’m in the UK for halloween this year. And i’m not quite sure whether i’m going to see Halloween beer. They have all the big boys of the States, Bud, Coors, Corona, Miller, everything else you can name, but so far not seen any Halloween themes for the beer. The candies and chips have got it, but no beer so far, i can hope though.

If not i’ll just buy a few cases of bud and slap a pumpkin sticker on each bottle, no one at the party will be any wiser

And yeah also looking forward to a competition, and i keep menaing to e-mail you but maybe i can get you to read this save me the trouble. [b]MATT[/b] where is the AOD review for cryin out loud! Plan that into your countdown or thank your lucky stars there’ll be some angry people who been waiting years on it lol.

Ghosted by Dan @ 09/30/2006 11:27 AM EDT

Ah crap, i’m too used to using UBB coding i forgot it was html.

Ahem…

MATT! There we go. Read above lol.

Ghosted by Dan @ 09/30/2006 11:28 AM EDT

The hell? How many other states have such puritanical laws? I knew Utah had some weird ones but given the LDS population it makes sense. Thank goodness for California. Booze, abortions and medical marijuana for all!

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/30/2006 11:32 AM EDT

It does sound like a Puritanical law? But it kinda works the opposite. We have liquor stores EVERYWHERE, my town has one small food store that could barely be considered a market, never mind a supermarket, but we have two decent-sized liquor stores (and two fairly small ones).

Ghosted by Katherine @ 09/30/2006 11:57 AM EDT

Same in PA, liquor stores (”state stores”) abound. I was baffled to walk into a Maine supermarket one day and see they had a liquor aisle.

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 09/30/2006 12:56 PM EDT

I must be the only man on Earth who doesn’t like beer. Tastes like mouthwash to me. I should try a wine cooler or one of those mixed drinks sometime.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 09/30/2006 1:12 PM EDT

Magic Hat makes a halloween beer ASSORTMENT. Sam Adams sucks. I haven’t tried the magic hat yet but it’s called night of the living dead and that’s cool enough for me. With tastes like circus boy, jinx, and the mystery beer, it’s truly the jones soda of beer. Until something better comes along at least.

Click my name to check out the website, complete with creepy music and build a skeleton mini game!

Ghosted by Travis @ 09/30/2006 1:20 PM EDT

Was there some kind of plural zone shenanigans last night? Me and the Colonel were up to at least a quarter til 3 and this was NOT here. Refreshed a million times, too!!

Oh well, whatever. It’s here now. I spent the night perusing YouTube found some awesome stuff. My Chem doing all I want for Christmas is You. Take that Mariah!!!!!

But mainly it was many many viewings of their perfomance of Dead! at the Reading festival. Good times. It’s on my myspace page now if anyone is interested.

Ghosted by K- @ 09/30/2006 1:44 PM EDT

Yeah this totally wasn’t here last night.

Ghosted by Hotblack Desiato @ 09/30/2006 1:45 PM EDT

Ichabod Ale!

When you’re talking about Halloween and Beer, how can you miss all the assorted Pumpkin Ales that come out in the fall?

I can always tell its time to get excited about Halloween when I see the pumpkin ale at the grocery store.

Ghosted by def. @ 09/30/2006 3:09 PM EDT

Ya, I’m one who doesn’t like booze either, but I like all the stuff like advertising blitzes that go with it, just not drinking it & getting drunk. Overrated.

Also, supermarkets around here have killed 2 birds with one stone by selling packs of ping pong balls in the beer section.

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 09/30/2006 3:44 PM EDT

Elvira has DVDs of “Movie Macabre” out this season. It was the syndicated show that first brought her fame. If you only know her outside of MM, then turn in your Hallowe’en badge right now. MM and MST3K are prerequisites if you want to be snarky at the movies.

broomstickjockey, according to my All Saints’ Day Sense, and the handful of cards from back then, you are thinking of Coca-Cola’s “MONSTERS OF THE GRIDIRON” promotion. (Not to be confused with EA’s Mutant League Football.)

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/30/2006 4:52 PM EDT

“Halloween/Beer Success #1: Supermarket Displays
When you go the supermarket, there will be beer. That’s a year-round fact.”

Not where I live! No beer in supermarkets here, I think province-wide. I know it’s not Canada-wide, because you can buy alcohol at supermarkets in Alberta (which I always thought was really weird as a kid when I’d visit my grandparents there) and probably in Quebec, but I dunno about everywhere else.

Ghosted by Evin @ 09/30/2006 5:39 PM EDT

Yeah, I picked up a couple of the Elvira Movie Macabre DVDs at Wal-Mart for like $10 or so. I love Elvira so much. I’m still amazed at how she manages to keep her ta-tas in place.

I don’t like beer because I’m one of those people that thinks it all tastes like piss, but I got some locally made fresh apple cider! Mmmmm… cider!

Ghosted by Mystie @ 09/30/2006 5:40 PM EDT

‘Never been a fan of beer either, but the Halloween-themed promos are pretty damn cool. Nice to see the Cryptkeeper come out of his grave to promot Bud Light, too.

Ghosted by Retro Playback @ 09/30/2006 6:04 PM EDT

Heh, great article, as always. Liked the conversation between Elvira and the Crypt Keeper.
Anyhoo, I’d hate to use this blog as my own personal whine-fest, but, uh, I’m gonna use this blog as my own personal whine-fest.
You see, it all started when I entered this one pirate-making contest at this one message board I frequent. I thought it was going to be all well and good, and that I’d be able to finish it up on time. But I haven’t exactly been working on it too hard, and the next thing I know, it’s the day of the deadline and I haven’t even filled out half of what I’m supposed to put in. Now I’m working double time in order to finish my pirate on time. *sigh* Oh, well, I really only have myself to blame.

Ghosted by Healy @ 09/30/2006 6:18 PM EDT

So, did my last comment disappear into the oblivion that is the approval queue because of the link attached, or because Matt has added this variant of my name to the LIST too?

We’ll find out, if this comment doesn’t post

Ghosted by K- @ 09/30/2006 6:29 PM EDT

The Yeti – try searching for women’s plaid skirts too. If you’ve got manly sized hips, just be sure to get a large enough size (any women’s clothing site has a sizing chart if you need help). Also, stay away from the ones made for Halloween costumes and more toward school girl uniforms, the costumes tend to be pretty short…also, the suggestion to make one was pretty good, if you can sew.

Ghosted by Mara @ 09/30/2006 7:00 PM EDT

Now, I’m not a beer drinker… SCOTCH AND BOURBON WHISKY, HELLS YEAH! Beer… eh…don’t care for it.

When I was in high school and college we’d drink it thru a funnel. That’s gonna be the only way I’ll ever do so again.

Anyway, When I lived in New York (Long Island mostly, then upstate NY) there were beer displays as far as the eye could see.

VERY elaborate ones, much like you describe.

But, I have since moved to the Pocono’s of Pennsylvania (which is cool because it sounds like TRANSYLVANIA), and they DON’T SELL BEER (or any alchohol) in grocey stores.

For BEER, you have to go to a BAR and buy some “to go”. Or you go to a beer distributor.

For other forms of sweet, sweet booze you have to go to a state-sanctioned liquor store.

It’s all kinds of messed-up.

Now, even though I don’t drink beer, I will buy ANYTHING that ELVIRA is hawking.

I LOVES me the Elvira.

One of my friends knows her (and has worked with her in the past) and I’ll always regret never asking him to bring me along when he would go to her house for work or to hang out.

I just didn’t think I should ask.
It wouldn’t be cool.

But it WOULD have been cool for him to OFFER.

Damn it.
Now I HATE that guy.

~P~
P-TOR

Ghosted by P-TOR @ 09/30/2006 7:27 PM EDT

Well look at that my original post FINALLY showed up. Welcome home, Matt. Are we getting an SNT tonight? Or does this count? I like to know when to start talking about REALLY irrelevant stuff

XOXO

Ghosted by K- @ 09/30/2006 7:34 PM EDT

I think we’ll keep this one as the SNT this week.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/30/2006 8:10 PM EDT

Yay SNT! Yay talking about really irrelevant stuff!

^_^

I’m excited this week because I’ve got a check in the mail from the CEO of Zern’s. Apparently she found the article I wrote about Zern’s a while back and is totally in love with my work. A bunch of my photos are going to be featured in the 2007 Zern’s calendar and I’m going to be doing some cool projects and PR stuff for them. And I’m getting an allowance for gas and rounds of TMNT pinball! I’m sooooo excited!!!!

Ghosted by Mystie @ 09/30/2006 8:45 PM EDT

I hate beer and don’t handle liquor in general well. Plus, regular grocery stores in New Jersey don’t sell beer unless they have a special liquor store section (like the last grocery store I worked at in North Cape May). Anyway, I think a lot of the reason you see so many beer displays at this time of year probably has to do with football season…although Halloween parties may factor in somewhere.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 09/30/2006 9:10 PM EDT

Here we have only beer/wine/liquor in stores selling only those things. But each town decides whether they have a city municipal store or if they can be privately owned. If they can be privately owned, the grocery stores have a store attached to them. Not having it in the grocery store doesn’t bug me. I used to work in one in WA state. I had to deal with telling drunk people it was illegal to sell them beer and the really drunk ones would sit and argue with you while all you want to do is ring up the groceries of the lady standing behind them.
I, also have never developed a taste for beer. I love wine. Vodka loves me. Happy SNT! (hey, poem!)

Ghosted by kb @ 09/30/2006 9:20 PM EDT

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