Didn't trmp get credit for winning w/this exact strategy? People blamed biden for the high price of eggs or whatever the hell. And now trmp's in power, and can't fix the high price of eggs, but ppl don't hold him responsible for any of his failures. Only Dems have to put up or shut up.

Seismically great!

AFI is playing in Denver on Halloween. I am so on the fence about whether to go. Should I go? (If they're going to be playing mostly new songs, which they probably will, it might be less fun for me?)

Have you tried adding olive brine to chai lattes? Because I'm curious about how that tastes but don't want to try it myself.

Somewhere there's a librarian who's like, "I don't know why I know that you can download historical data from NWS weather stations and find out exactly how cold it was on Dec 12, 1975. This knowledge would be useful for someone but it isn't to me." Maybe it's YOU! The librarian is waiting for YOU.

Libraries have Overdrive and Hoopla and google has all these websites it can bring to you and you never have to enter the library or talk to a person, but let's not forget that libraries are full of PEOPLE and those people are there to help you find things. They WANT to help you find things.

Don't get me wrong, digital literacy and popular novels are good and noble pursuits, but they're also routine. You can be the person who breaks the routine by asking whether or not worms leave trails in the fossil record.

Anyway, childhood mystery solved, no I will NOT be revisiting this movie to see if it is funny, as far as I'm concerned Howard Witt is in the Valhalla of Horror Icons for his role as Mr. Boogedy. I have never felt safe in my bed since that glowing, sneezing man haunted a small New England town.

Turns out that all I had to do was search by the one line of dialogue that I remember ("Boogedy boogedy boo"), because that brings it right up on youtube.

The movie? Is a comedy. At least according to wikipedia. It aired on network TV as a Disney Sunday Movie.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Boo...

I have never known what fucking movie that was, because I could only remember snippets of two or three scenes, and no character names, basically nothing that was specific enough to be searchable. I've tried now and again over the years, or asked people about it, and never got anywhere.

I slept with the lights on for months. MONTHS. (Under-the-bed monsters hate lamps.) Maybe years?

Like i could live with the inevitability of the monsters under my bed, I was at peace with the fact that I couldn't get rid of them, but that fragile detente was only tenable if the monsters *stayed under the bed.*

What I saw in my dream was a translucent blue hand creeping up from the foot of my bed. It was moving slowly and grabbing at the bed covers like it was going to pull itself up and *into* my bed. My screaming woke up the whole house.

There is also a movie that I saw pieces of when I was probably 7 or 8, that scared the living shit out of me. I had a nightmare about it that I still count as one of the worst of my life because I didn't know that you could dream you were awake and in your bed

And also I was far away from the TV, at the top of the stairs, so I missed a lot of the visual gags that happen in the background.

I was 11 or 12, so arguably I should have had a sense of humor by that point in my life? All I can think is that, the humor in those movies is so dry, and I had absolutely no cultural context for the noir movies that they were spoofing, so I took things like suspenseful musical cues 100% literally.

Like the first time I saw Naked Gun (which, to be clear, I "watched" from the top of a staircase while craning my ears, because my brother sent me out of the den because "this isn't a movie for you" which of course made me want to watch it more), I entirely missed that it is a comedy.

Bandcamp, if the artist has a presence there. Or the artist's website?