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The Holly Jolly Drive-in 🎄
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He/Him. Christ-follower and 1980s monster kid. Forever annoyed that Ed Wood didn’t win Best Picture back in 1994. https://linktr.ee/haunteddrivein
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A BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II lunchbox for $3? That’s a good day.
A vintage blue BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II lunchbox.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Things are lookin’ up! My buddy @afunghoul.bsky.social just gifted me this spooky bottle opener. Thanks dude!
An Angry Orchard Hard Cider bottle opener with a skeletal hand grasping an apple.
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Ending a hard day with a banana bread martini.
Close up of a dessert martini.
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Wife: “You got all the essentials right?”

Me: “Um, yeah. Definitely yeah.”
A decorative portrait of Master Gracey from Disney’s Haunted Mansion rests in a car trunk among bags of groceries.
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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So ends another Halloween. To paraphrase my friend @bloodypopcorn.bsky.social, the ghosties and ghoulies aren’t gone. They’re just a little harder to see.

Good night everyone. I pray your hearts and candy buckets are full.
A half-deflated jack-o-lantern looks up at the sky mournfully, a few dead twigs surrounding it at the base.
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I took some pretentious arty photos of the neighborhood while my son got his candy.
A blurry, hazy image of a smiling jack-o-lantern sitting atop a stool on a porch, bathed in purple light. Streaks of light crossing the screen in a quick blurred motion.
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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We got candy, we got oranges, we got cereal, we got cheesy mac, we even got “full moon” juice! Let’s boo this.
Plastic cauldrons on a stoop stuffed fulla candy, snacks, juice, and simple meals.
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m so glad I didn’t let anyone talk me out of adding this to my wedding registry.
A 7-foot tall inflatable T-Rex skeleton with a purple witch hat, pumpkin pail, and glowing eyes stands on a yard against a brick wall.
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Drinking a rich, creamy Jack-o-float because I have an awesome wife who loves me.
A clear cup filled with a sherbet float soda and a jack-o-lantern face drawn on the side in Sharpie.
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Again, we got “The Witches of Pennbrook” and “And Then There Was Shawn” in the same season. Both crazy quotable and both spectacularly spooky.
A screenshot of a BlueSky post about Boy Meets World Halloween episodes.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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In light of it being Halloween morning, I’ve recreated the breakfast Jon feeds the titular fat cat in Garfield’s Halloween Adventure. It’s not as iconic as, say, Snoopy’s Thanksgiving dinner, but it will give me energy for hunting down all that candy candy candycandycandy…
A breakfast on a tray consisting of a pot of coffee, an apple, a croissant, a sweet roll, and three strips of bacon. Screenshot from Garfield’s Halloween Adventure, with Jon offering Garfield breakfast.
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Volume 1 on November 26th, Volume 2 on Christmas, and we don’t get the finale until New Year’s Eve? Sheesh. At least I can enjoy the cereal now.
A box of Stranger Things-licensed cereal called Demogorgon Crunch sits in front of a window on a sunny day.
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Halloween may be tomorrow, but that wasn’t gonna stop me from nabbing this vintage Santa Donnie TMNT ornament for 50¢.
A vintage wooden Christmas ornament featuring Donatello of the TMNT in a Santa hat.
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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“I can’t tonight, I’ve got plans.”

The plans:
A vintage Disney Channel schedule advertising A Disney Halloween, Halloween Is Grinch Night, and Mr. Boogedy.
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The severed head of Vac-Man wishes you pleasant nightmares.
An action figure head with large teeth and a ruddy complexion smiles menacingly.
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Big news all #gremlinsgear followers! Jack in the Box has a Midnight Meal right now inspired by the franchise, with Gizmo and Stripe air fresheners while supplies last! There’s no locations near me, so please enjoy this meal on my behalf! @sammyhain.bsky.social
A screenshot of fast food available as part of the Jack In the Box Gremlins Midnight Meal.
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Boy Meets World aired an all-timer Halloween episode for their fifth season, then aired a hysterical horror movie pastiche a mere 12 episodes later. The 90s, man.
A young man in a black shroud smirks while holding a book titled Witchcraft for Dumb-dumbs. Three teenagers stand opposite a cloaked masked figure in a library.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Much like my pal @tanookijoe.bsky.social with his Commercial Break YouTube channel, I’ve been thinking about modern holiday marketing. In just a few short years we’ll remember these things and lament no one saved them. If this was a magazine print ad from 1987 we’d all love it. So I’m gonna save it.
A Facebook ad from hot sauce purveyor Heatonist.com with a jack-o-lantern sitting amongst various hot sauces.
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Just thinkin’ about that gloriously gory light gun game Pam Grier’s kids play in MARS ATTACKS!
A video game screen depicting an astronaut on Mars surrounded by small carnivorous aliens the player is meant to shoot away. Another screenshot of the same game depicting the astronaut with chunks of flesh missing from his frame. Two young boys playing a light gun arcade game.
October 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Local Halloween parade, what could be better?
A custom Ghostbusters Ecto-1 vehicle driving in a Halloween parade. A young girl dressed as Pac-Man leads in front of two older women dressed as ghosts from the game. A large red semitruck covered in spiderwebs carries Halloween revelers dressed as Pennywise the clown and his victim Georgie. A marching band comprised of students in many different costumes, including an angel, Shrek, and Darth Vader.
October 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A trio of Jack-o-lanterns illuminated at night.
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Kiddo is at a trunk-or-treat with his cousins, so we went to the local haunt. My wife freaked out multiple times and clenched my arm. 10/10.
A large pensive-looking skeleton made from recycled logs and driftwood. A massive pumpkin sits on a table in front of some flowers. A skeleton in raggedy clothing sits on an old chair, covered in green lighting. A corpse decoration with bony arms and bleeding muscles hangs under a red light.
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I might have missed out on the fuzzy box, but I’m so happy to have all three regular size Monster Cereals.
A box of Frankenberry cereal featuring a flocked Muppety version of the monster.
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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From left to right: me, the 8 year old, the 4 year old, the other 4 year old. Scope out the dripping pumpkin gut “brains” on the 8 year old’s work.
4 carved jack-o-lanterns sitting on a table, including an amateur Jack Skellington, a cheery zombie with pumpkin gut brains, a creepy smiling pumpkin with a a tiny dot nose, and a cutesy pumpkin with one tooth and heart eyes.
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Carvin’ with the nieces and nephew. @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social pumpkin seeds to follow.
Pumpkins sit on a kitchen table surrounded by plastic carving tools.
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM