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10/13/2007: fefrewrrwr

Well, I certainly shouldn’t expect that too many people are around this Saturday night considering my own disappearing act, but if you’re here, feel free to comment. What a weird Halloween season. I know it can’t just be me. I’m off to find my macabre mojo for a while, but I’ll be back later.

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First?

Ghosted by Nickelodeon @ 10/13/2007 8:20 PM EDT

Tonight, let’s discuss religion.

Ghosted by Britney @ 10/13/2007 8:20 PM EDT

I’m here…

Ghosted by Jerrod @ 10/13/2007 8:20 PM EDT

Matt, have you ever been to or heard of the Chiller Theatere Expo? It was in Parsipany, NJ. I went this past weekend. It’s really fun, the best was Gary Coleman’s table right next to Kane Hodder’s. The website is linked in my name if you are intersted. They are having another in April.

Also, do you know if Cocoa Bat Peeps still exist? I’m assuming they are discountinuted. I’ve searched every Halloween season ever since your inital post about them about 5 years ago. I’ve never had any luck.

Ghosted by Ralph @ 10/13/2007 8:21 PM EDT

Yay me, I was first. Now that it’s off my chest, I have to admit, this Halloween just doesn’t feel right. I’ve hardly even seen anything in the stores, it’s almost as if they have decided to go ahead with christmas and say to hell with Halloween.

That doesn’t boast well with me.

Ghosted by Nickelodeon @ 10/13/2007 8:21 PM EDT

I visited a Halloween Superstore today and came home with a coloring book, didn’t want one other thing. Is it the weather that’s stealing the mojo?

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 10/13/2007 8:23 PM EDT

My two pumpkins had to be thrown away The warm weather made them moldy and collapse in less than 7 days.

Ghosted by brett @ 10/13/2007 8:24 PM EDT

I commiserate with Matt on the lack of mojo, but I myself am not experiencing it this year. In fact, the more stressful my job gets, the more excited I get about Halloween. I decorate and do fun projects after work as stress relievers. I totally want to make the Ravens Blight manor now!

Ghosted by FyarlGirl @ 10/13/2007 8:25 PM EDT

It’s the weather. Here in Southern Ontario, it’s been pretty hot.

But yesterday and today feel just like fall! It’s just a few degrees over 0 (celcius, you Americans).

The forecast for the next few days seems pretty fall-like, so hopefully the weather won’t heat up again.

Ghosted by Andrew/Animelee @ 10/13/2007 8:26 PM EDT

All right, I think it’s time XE saved Halloween. We’ll meet at the Toys R Us in Times Square and begin searching for a witch, Dracula, and Tim Curry so that we can find out who stole the Halloween spirit. And then kick him in the junk. And then have a claymation television special commissioned in our honor. Tally ho!

…crap, my car’s blocked in by Sooner fans. You guys let me know how the epic quest turns out.

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 10/13/2007 8:29 PM EDT

This is a weird Halloween season indeed.

Everything feels Halloweeny, but looking around the neighborhood I’m the only one with blinky Halloween lights in the windows and cheap foam gravestones in the yard.

It’s chilly, the leaves are starting to change (in Illinois), and the days are growing shorter; Yet, people just ain’t getting into it.

Is it the government…something in our water? Course, haven’t seen much promotion of Halloween in the media this year either. No ‘Thirteen Days of Halloween’ being promoted every commercial break. Maybe it’s because the economy is a downturn, and Halloween isn’t really a holiday where people go and spend a lot of cash…they’re all holding onto their ad budgets for Christmas.

It looks like it’s up to all of us purists. You specifically Matt.

Just think, ‘The Halloween that Matt Saved’!

You can do it!

Ghosted by HauntSpot @ 10/13/2007 8:31 PM EDT

You know what’s gotten me in the Halloween mood? The “8 Films To Die For” series. Tonight I start “Dark Ride”, which is about a serial killer hiding inside an amusement park Dark Ride (imagine that!). Kinda like Zeebo the clown in that one “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” episode. Best of all, I got it for just a buck at family video. Well, I’m off. Wish me luck.

Ghosted by Steve @ 10/13/2007 8:31 PM EDT

Damn Kirsten Dunst is one homely little creep, she looks like a shaved cat.

Ghosted by El Loco Gordo @ 10/13/2007 8:38 PM EDT

The weather’s cooled off here, but not as much as I’d like. The leaves aren’t turning yet either. And yeah, it does seem like they’re trying to skip Halloween and probably Thanksgiving this year and jump right to Christmas, which is bullshit.

Ghosted by Annette @ 10/13/2007 8:38 PM EDT

This is just like that time in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer when Stormy was being a jerk and didn’t want winter to stop and then it turned out that the Princess was putting that opaque netting around the Diamond Planet causing winter to continue long past its time which in turn caused major depression on Earth. Except it’s the opposite now, and Halloween will never come unless some mythical being makes with the cool weather. Am I right or am I right?

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 10/13/2007 8:40 PM EDT

I just want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween Season. Just stay in the spirit, because you’re the only one who needs to feel it, to make it special.

Well, I’m off to work, but when I get back I’m bringing home candy corn, haven’t had that in awhile.

Ghosted by G4L @ 10/13/2007 8:44 PM EDT

It’s true; I can’t even work up the enthusiasm to get my Halloween costume together. The timing just all seems off, with sports schedules all out of wack and not a single horror movie in theaters. (Saw IV don’t count. At all.) Maybe my spirits will lift with the re-release of Nightmare Before X-Mas this weekend, but I don’t know. I think I’ll dig into all the crappy horror VHS I just bought off of eBay and see if that doesn’t help.

Ghosted by Declan Dempsey @ 10/13/2007 8:45 PM EDT

Hey all, this is my first SNT.

Like the Chiller Con in Jersey I go to one here in Maryland every year called Horrorfind Weekend. http://www.horrorfindweekend.com is the site incase anyone wants to check it out.

What gets me in the Halloween Spirit is making sure I decorate, carve and watch as many animated specials I can just like everyone else. On top of that I make it my mission to impose my good Halloween cheer on my unwitting friends and family. My girlfriend never did holiday’s at all really before she met me (stunted childhood) so I get to corrupt her from scratch

Ghosted by Minnick @ 10/13/2007 8:46 PM EDT

Exactly, Jessica Marie.

Ghosted by Annette @ 10/13/2007 8:50 PM EDT

I have a ninja pumpkin…. might post photos later. It’s from that Potato Head Halloween kit (make the pumpkin into a ninja or pirate) that I found at Targets. Not seen them anywhere else.

Ghosted by Jace @ 10/13/2007 8:51 PM EDT

I haven’t really had any problems getting into the spirit. I’ve been playing Constantine, and I finally bought Silent Hill 3

Ghosted by Knegative @ 10/13/2007 9:01 PM EDT

I never really get into Halloween until a few days before Halloween when I start my Halloween movie marathon…Little shop of Horrors, Corpse Bride, Young Frankenstein, and Rocky Horror being the films I watch…

Speaking of movies, for some reason I decided to start Watching Star Wars tonight. Starting at the Beginning, Episode I. Maybe one film a night? We’ll see…

Happy SNT!

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 10/13/2007 9:03 PM EDT

I’ve been trying to watch as many cartoon Halloween specials as I can online. I just watched Casper Saves Halloween, The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone, The Halloween Tree, and the awful Halloween is Grinch Night.

Ghosted by Ladytink_534 @ 10/13/2007 9:05 PM EDT

Today is only day 3 of decent weather here in Virginia. I own like 30 hoodies! I need to rotate those babies!

Maybe its just me and everyone else isn’t feeling the mojo but I’m all psyched! I leave for tour on Monday, so I get to have Halloween on the road (in Poughkeepsie, NY I think). So I bought a giant banana costume yesterday and I have my Nightmare Before Christmas action figures and I’m bringing all my Halloween specials on DVD with me and I’m psyched. In fact, I’m 20 minutes, and 10 dinosair shaped chicken nuggets away from watching Nightmare Before Christmas. Ill be back!

Everyone! Get out of your funk! Watch Hocus Pocus and feel better!

Ghosted by Brian! @ 10/13/2007 9:10 PM EDT

God speed my son. It has been weird here too. Even “Holiday Street” (as me and my wife have dubbed it) still doesn’t have their decorations up yet. I put some Halloween wallpapers on my iPhone but I wasn’t feeling it either so I just went back to my autumn leaves background.

Ghosted by xcharliemx @ 10/13/2007 9:11 PM EDT

Silent Hill 3. Maybe that’s what I need. A scary video game.

Ghosted by Matt @ 10/13/2007 9:11 PM EDT

Ta hell you been, Brian?

Ghosted by Knegative @ 10/13/2007 9:12 PM EDT

by the way, I’m new here. Been reading for years but never participated in a SNT or anything. Hi everyone.

Ghosted by xcharliemx @ 10/13/2007 9:12 PM EDT

The thing that always gets me in the spirit, no matter what, is the cartoon 1940’s era Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It’s just spooky good fun! Of course, Monster Squad is also good for mojo conjuration, too.

Ghosted by FyarlGirl @ 10/13/2007 9:13 PM EDT

My tip for getting into the Halloween spirit… volunteer for a Haunted House. By trade, I’m an illustrator / graphic designer and was invited by a friend to take part in a local haunted house. I said ’sure’ and was surprised that we started work during the summer. Several months of painting backdrops has made me very eager for some howling at the moon.

As far as Halloween film marathons go:
I just watched 28 days later last night.
Tonight is 28 weeks later (I’m told I’ll be disappointed)
In my Netflix Q:
â€¢ Transformers (OK, it’s not for Halloween, but dammit I grew up with these guys)
â€¢ Planet Terror
â€¢ Something Wicked This Way Comes
â€¢ The Watcher in the Woods
â€¢ Ghost Story
â€¢ Phantasm (Never seen it, is it good?)
â€¢ Night of the Demons (1 & 2)
â€¢ Witch Board
â€¢ Demons (1 & 2)

Ghosted by HauntSpot @ 10/13/2007 9:16 PM EDT

Welcome, Charlie

Definitely, Matt. SH3 is just delightful. I remember rattling off my list of complaints about it to the friend who lent it to me last year, but then feeling horrible everyday because of how awesome it really is despite those flaws.

The first true level is a mall, which for some reason in my mind is the ultimate horror locale. My only BIG complaint about it is that you almost always play the regular side of a level first, and then the “hell side.” Constantine does a much better job of it. You switch back and forth to solve puzzles and progress. It is so like A Link to the Past that it makes me SQUEEE!

Ghosted by Knegative @ 10/13/2007 9:19 PM EDT

HauntSpot, it is totally cool to have non-scary things in the Halloween mojo cauldron. It’s about fun. The best Halloween memory I have as a child was winning a coloring contest, and I got to actually talk on the air for a bit. Yeah, it sounds kinda lame now, but at the time it was the coolest thing going on in my 5-year old universe.

Ghosted by FyarlGirl @ 10/13/2007 9:21 PM EDT

We bought costumes for the kids this week, Yoda and an awesome Burger King Mask and robe. It looks like the real deal and I’ve already been causing chaos around the neighborhood.

I wonder what would happen if I wore it to McDonald’s?

Happy SNT everyone!

Ghosted by MikeyD @ 10/13/2007 9:24 PM EDT

Maybe I should go pick up a copy of Dead Rising for my 360. I havent played that yet except a few minutes with some friends.

Ghosted by Minnick @ 10/13/2007 9:28 PM EDT

Having Kids eventually will make Halloween alot more fun, I’m sure. In the year 2012 I want my kids to be Yoda and the Burger King.

Ghosted by Minnick @ 10/13/2007 9:30 PM EDT

Kneg -
Whaaa?? Hell? 0_o

Ghosted by Brian @ 10/13/2007 9:34 PM EDT

Why doesn’t everyone get up and go for a walk.

Ghosted by ellaenchanted @ 10/13/2007 9:39 PM EDT

OH! And I forgot I visited an awwwwweeeesome pumpkin patch in Northern VA earlier this week. Free cider, free pumpkins, rope swings, slides, rope swings, hay rides, baby piggies, a volcano (slide), turkeys, and more! They even have a giant dinosaur themed slide called “Slide-A-Saurus”! Check this place out: Cox Farms. Its ok, to giggle at the name, too.

Ghosted by Brian @ 10/13/2007 9:41 PM EDT

Hit target, cvs, walmart, tru today… not really digging the Halloween goods they have this year. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places. Or maybe Matt got all the good stuff from the places I went to today.

Ghosted by Double G @ 10/13/2007 9:48 PM EDT

Brian: YES! If you know of a local pumpkin patch near you VISIT! It’s an experience that will instantly get you in the Halloween spirit. The charm of a pumpkin patch will capture your heart.
In fact, I’ll be visiting one later this month ‘Black Barts’, they always have some home-made Halloween decorations and free (over salted) popcorn! Each year, that’s the exclamation point for ‘It’s Halloween!’ for me.

Ghosted by HauntSpot @ 10/13/2007 9:52 PM EDT

Jessica Marie

Mad props for a reference that 80’s and geeky. I’ve been clearing out my house on eBay to get cash for living/giant television. Nothing feels more 80’s to me than a non-cluttered, clean house. Reminds me of when I was a kid. Now if I could just find my darn Boo Bucket from McDonalds! I know it’s here somewhere…dig dig dig

Ghosted by Terror Claws Cole @ 10/13/2007 9:57 PM EDT

Happy SNT everyone!

I lost close to $300 playing Poker in Atlantic City yesterday -
That being said, I have been surprisingly able to keep a decent Halloween spirit so far this October.

Ghosted by Joker @ 10/13/2007 9:57 PM EDT

I wish I had the time to go back to that place. It was epic. Several acres big and it smelled like goats and was made of win. Oh man.

And “Black Bart’s” has a name that makes it sound infinitely cooler. Does it have a pirate theme? That would be like a second layer of icing on an already iced cake. Party on, HauntSpot!

Ghosted by Brian @ 10/13/2007 9:57 PM EDT

Just released from the hospital, so I am up for a night of SNT! I don’t have the Halloween vibe yet either…of course, now I can’t eat candy, so that doesn’t help.

25 Weeks Later ROCKED.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 10/13/2007 10:00 PM EDT

You’ve been in hell, Bryan? That sucks It’s been way too long since you’ve graced us with your presence here

Ghosted by Knegative @ 10/13/2007 10:06 PM EDT

People keep posting while I’m posting. Grrr.

Yay, Muppet Baby!!

Ghosted by Knegative @ 10/13/2007 10:07 PM EDT

As have I. A sudden dip in the temperatures (it was 85 a week ago and 63 today) and finally getting to put up my own Halloween decorations has certainly boosted my “macabre mojo.” Alas, my one larger pumpkin did rot from last week’s awful, un-Halloweeny weather, but it’s little mini-pumpkin siblings and their cousins the bumpy squash are weathering the change in weather just fine. I can pretty much net a replacement for the big pumpkin any time – the grocery store where I work is littered with them.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 10/13/2007 10:10 PM EDT

Nah, not hell. Just busy AS hell. This is my last weekend home for the nxt 6 weeks, so I’m kicking back watching movies with my best friend when I remembered it was Saturday and Saturday = SNT! And I feel like I posted a comment here or there the past while. Or maybe I’m crazy. How’ve you been?

And Muppet Baby, hope you’re feeling much better!

Ghosted by Brian @ 10/13/2007 10:11 PM EDT

*This is really more of a Kingklash job but since I got here first*

I can’t believe what I am hearing. What is wrong with everybody?? True, I don’t want anyone to fake it (”Boy, Halloween is going great.” *through clinched teeth*) but I ain’t having it!!
True, the weather has been off, true, we are all getting older, true even the Manimal thought about letting this be the year that I scaled back. We all have our doubts but you pull yourself and bust out of the quagmire. IT’S THE AMERICAN WAY.

Now, I want 2 FRIDAY THE 13th references and at least one obscure Halloween joke from all of you by the time the night’s over.
*blows coach’s whistle* COME ON TEAM, SUCK IT UP! Play like the champions you are! “One of us, ONE OF US!”

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 10/13/2007 10:12 PM EDT

Matt: I know what you mean. This year feels really odd for some reason. I hate to admit this, but for some reason I’m more excited about Christmas than Halloween this year.

P.S. – I had a weird dream about you the other night! It was pretty random.

Ghosted by Jen @ 10/13/2007 10:13 PM EDT

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