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One More Blue Sunny Day

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Greetings!

In part to continue The Webmaster’s current theme of “Halloween”-type posts, I thought I would share a rather well done song.

One of the things I rather appreciate: The song may be about a vampire. It may be about an agoraphobic, nocturnal person with depression. It might be both. The lyrics are delightfully ambiguous enough to allow you to decide.

For the sake of this post and the theme, I will be interpreting it as a song about a vampire, and thus it fits the theme of Halloween.

Have a lovely day.

Costco has its Scary Halloween Decorations again

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Hello!

So, anyway. Recently, I was once more at a CostCo. And once more, they had their absolutely perfectly appropriate, terrifying halloween decorations up that I already wrote about. So, I’m basically sending you to an already existing post because I’m scarily lazy like that. And scary-lazy is Halloween-y and therefore October appropriate, or something, right?

Anyway. Have a lovely day!

My Costume(s) Were Successful

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Hiya, Fluffsters!

On both Friday and Saturday, I (somewhat) celebrated Halloween by giving out candy and wearing a costume.

Friday, I dressed as an undercover spy.

Saturday, (yesterday) I was a time-traveler who was trying to blend in.

I got no comments on my outfits, so I must have dressed successfully. It made me happy.

Have a lovely day! And happy November!

Scarily Appropriate Halloween Decorations

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Hiya, Fluffsters!

So, I was at a Costco store recently.

They already had Christmas stuff up. Or so I thought. It was a slightly terrifying experience.

And then I realized that it was actually the perfect Halloween decorations.

You see, they make us think they’re decorating for Christmas, when really they’re using an obscure math joke. From what I understand, in math, there are different “bases” for counting things. (Fluffy made a post about that for why we should use binary to count with our fingers.) Anyway, one of those bases is base 8. It’s referred to as Octal. Our normal base is base 10, or decimal. They get shortened to Dec and Oct, sometimes.

(Don’t those abbreviations look familiar…?)

Anyway, it turns out that 25 in base 10 is the same thing as 31 in base 8. In other words, oct 31 = dec 25. So therefore apparently Halloween is Christmas.

And furthermore, that means that Costco was being extra terrifying in its Halloween decorations by making us think a) it was going over-the-top consumer-focused to the point of starting Christmas decorations and sales a full two months early, or 2) making us think of math (and puns) in order to understand what they were actually doing.

Well played, Costco.

I hope you have a happy Halloween!

Some Halloween Music Recommendations (post 997)

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Hiya, Fluffsters!

So, I know this is a tiny bit either early or late for starting a Halloweenseries. But I was just chatting with a friend, and some music came up, and I remembered it’s absolutely perfect for Halloween.

It’s based off of the original Dies Irae Plainchant Theme.

(The video below is a bit long. You don’t need to hear all of it to get a feel for it.)

So, the words are basically “Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath” in Latin. That right there makes it a haunting refrain. And then a lot of people use it in their music.

One of my personal favorites is the last movement of Symphonie Fantastique.

Another is Rachmoninoff’s Variation on a Theme by Paginini. This one also doesn’t bring in the Dies Irae theme until a few minutes in. I’ve theoretically copied the YouTube time for where it actually starts. (You should listen to the entire piece, though, since it’s gorgeous. And haunting. So, yeah.)

So, yup. Here’s approximately the next location in the piece where the theme comes up. Seriously. It’s a recurring theme. I love it.

I may include more music for Halloween as it becomes relevant. But this will do for right now. And besides, I’ve got the looming terror of the 1,000th post coming up… I’m definitely going to be haunted by how little I do for it…

So, happy 997th post, and happy 9 days until Halloween! And Happy Thursday. Just to give you too many cheerful greetings and all. Because those can be scary. So, yeah. Have a great day.

Happy Halloween! (Hauntings of the Past…)

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Greetings, readers!

In honor of today being Halloween, I am going to let some of the past come back to haunt us.

To start with, this YouTube video I am sure you were hoping to never see again….

…And The Webmaster’s subsequent analysis of why it might offensive.

In addition to that, the Webmaster posted some, ah, remarkable explanations about September. This post included the trailer for the Great Pumpkin horror movie that, alas, did not actually come out.

Additionally, she had a rather bizarre concern about what happened to the Great Pumpkin a few months later.

For additional spooky levels, her conspiracy about rainbows is also rather terrifying.

Ha! You admit that rainbows are evil!

That is not what I said.

Thinking about it, most of The Webmaster’s explanations are a bit frightening.

As are many of her “food” choices.

I will definitely grant you the food one… The “fluff” at the end of that post was absolutely terrifying.

And since today is also a Friday…

…And so therefore you have time, here is one of the short stories I contributed to this website, and some analysis of things that would be terrifying if they were fluffy.

A Whovian Halloween- part 2

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Greetings, readers!

If you are neither a Whovian nor someone who does Halloween, my apologies. This post will not be the most inspiring for you.

For those of you who do appreciate Doctor Who, however, I am here today to share another idea for how to make a Doctor Who themed Halloween Party.

This idea is inspired by series 6. (Of the reboot, of course.)

It will not take too much preparation, just a little bit of “sneak” talent. Basically, take a black marker, and sneak tally-marks onto people.

Also, if possible, put random items into their pockets, or by their hands.

If you can do this without being noticed (maybe in a completely darkened room, holding your “target”‘s hand?) this has the potential of being adequate for a Halloween Party. For a bonus, if you could either stop the clocks at 5:02pm without anybody noticing, or just get all the clocks in your house to skip ahead to some time (after you have put tally marks on your guests, of course) that could increase the effect.

Alternatively, you can randomly disappear, and then come back, claim “no memory” of where you just were, and have tally marks on you.

That would not be as successful, however.