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by Mr. Tweedy » Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:29 pm
Oh my Hellephant, it's 11:41! Where did that time vanish off too?!
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It it now 11:55.
Great show, as usual. Kevin's story was quite good, I thought. It was cheesy and melodramatic in a way that reminded me of old-timey Boris Karlof-era horror when audiences hadn't been jaded by a thousand hours of sadistic dismemberment and could still be spooked by the mere sight of a misty graveyard. It's easy to image this story–
It is now 12:05.
–being adapted into a grainy black and white movie with monaural sound, static camera angles and an electric organ soundtrack.
My wife is cracking up big-time over an illustration she just saw the "Big Book of Play and Find Out Science Projects." A smiling family is riding in a car. The child in the back seat asks "Why do I have to wear a seat belt?" The driver responds, "Let's find out!" ...What was I talking about?
Some of the language would need to be softened, but the plot and execution have that nice balance of macabre and silly that makes for a fun or–dare I say it?–family horror piece, the sort of scary story you could tell to your kids instead of shielding them from. I like it.
And I love love love the Halloween intro/outro segments, both this year and last year. The self-conscious cheesiness is hilarious in every sentence, and the conspicuous inclusion of awkward silence was a perfect exclamation point to emphasize it. I LOLed* several times, and I need that, man.
Seriously, I hadn't anticipated just how much slacker time I'd loose when I quit my soul-sucking day job. I used to have hours and hours when I could just hang out on the internet and read or post whatever interested me while getting paid a low hourly wage for doing it. Now that I'm self-employed, that time has mostly vanished. I've, like, got stuff to do now.
*Screw you, strawman!
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