To highlight just how without direction this particular SNT should be, I shall post gibberish: akkaksakskaka.

I'm really happy to add this one to the Countdown, as it holds a lot of deep, personal meaning for me.  Maybe not, but I certainly couldn't have been the only one watching The Arsenio Hall Show on that hot July night in 1989.  To promote Jason Takes Manhattan, the big man himself appeared as one of Arsenio's guests.  Am I coming in clear, here?  Jason Voorhees…on The Arsenio Hall Show!

It was just as life-altering as you could imagine.

The latest Halloween Countdown entry, which I am dating as yesterday's to keep myself and check and not try to skip a day, turns one of the most memorable and disgusting moments of grade school into hot Halloween candy.  It's the Gummy Frog Dissection Kit, and it comes with a knife and everything!

And as if that didn't spike your appetite enough, get a load of these:

I wrote a big long hate rant against Clamato in my youth, but the truth is, I've warmed to the idea.  Went to Canada a while back and had dinner with a bunch of locals who all ordered Bloody Caesars, which more or less take a Bloody Mary and replace the tomato juice with Clamato.  I've always regretted not joining in.  I love Bloody Marys, but I never feel right ordering them because I'm always the only person in the place who wants one.  Caesars are like, the official drink of Canada.  Everybody drinks them.  It's close enough to a Bloody Mary, and I'm tempted to go back there just so I can finally down the swishy red drink without having to be the only idiot in the joint with vegetables protruding out the top of his glass.

It's those inklings that make me not at all averse to Lay's new "Crab Spice Seasoning" chips.  I never saw them before yesterday, so if they aren't new, they're at least new to my city.  The list of ingredients vaguely refers to "crab spice seasoning," but I'd say that they're basically regular potato chips dunked in a pit of Old Bay.  They really aren't that bad, and while I wouldn't christen them as the new "it boy" of Potato Chip Land, it's neat to see bright red crabs on the potato chip bag you're eating from.

Today's Countdown entry is only late if you're one of those religious fanatics who honestly believes that today is September 26th and not actually still the 25th.  I am here to enlighten you: It's September 25th, and today's deadline-meeting Countdown entry is a shorty about the Skull Fountain, a bowl of punch with bleeding eyes!

Because I'm nice, I've decided to post the entry for the 26th a day ahead of schedule.  Look for it by tonight!

There seems to have been a small debate as to whether I was going to make the deadline for tonight's entry.  Guys, guys, guys!  You know I usually wait until we're at least two weeks into these little projects before I start letting people down.  No, I made it.  I've got five of this year's greatest Halloween candies, right here.

God, I wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow.  Why do I always get inspired to do the best "doing nothing" things when I have no time to do them?  I really want to degenerate into a pool of couch slime and watch Dream Warriors or something right now, but there's no time.  Now, tomorrow night, I might have some time…but will I do it?  There's a moral in here if you peel away enough words.  Don't waste the time you have to do nothing doing something.  Gon' run that shit on a tee shirt with mah domain name underneath it, yes sir I am.

Survey: Weird one.  Name a horror movie you've always wanted to see, but somehow never have, and count on everyone else to tell you if you're missing out or not.  I realize that this is a bit of a convoluted survey, but that's okay, I have faith in us.  If horror movies are too far from your point of interest, I guess we can open the doors to other types of films, too.

I'm not late!  I'm not late!  It's still the 21st!

Today's Countdown entry sheds some light on The Halloween Door, a prime time Halloween special from The Real Ghostbusters.  It's one of those rare cases when a "normal" cartoon got its own big special, and I don't think this one disappointed anyone.  From singing Ghostbusters to dancing devils to a revised opening sequence chock full of pumpkin graphics, it had it all.

Quick Note #1: I believe I've corrected the coding mishap that's been causing all of the Countdown articles to look like textual mine fields on Mac computers.  If you've got a Mac, please let me know if the text still looks funky.  (Funky in a bad way, I mean.)

Quick Note #2: I'm back in this month's issue of ToyFare (#123) with a fairly large feature on Gobots.  I had to finally train myself to not call them "Go-Bots" or "GoBots" or any other variation that looks more correct even if it really isn't.  I haven't seen the issue myself yet, but God willing, nobody cut the two-paragraph aside where I gush about Rock Narlies for no good reason.

I'll be in next month's issue as well with a far spookier topic, but let's concentrate on spooky topics that are, as they say, in the now.  Today's Countdown entry is about Edy's limited edition Pumpkin Ice Cream, which is one of those "little things" I point to whenever my imaginary friends ask me why I like the holidays so much.

If you're smart enough to sit on the blog hitting F5 all day long, today's your lucky day:

The first 15 people who e-mail me their name and address will receive a free packet of Kool-Aid's most unholy flavor, Ghoul-Aid.

UPDATE: All 15 packets have been accounted for.  Thanks for playing.  There will be more stupid contests like this throughout the season!