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Apologies for being so NYC centric on this blog. But then again, it’s not my fault you don’t live in the greatest and most evil city in the world!
Time to start the flurry of Halloween events happening. October can’t get here soon enough.
The annual Zombiecon NYC will be upon us soon. Get your makeup ready and practice your foot-dragging.
That’s right. No more annoying heat. No more tourists. The city is ours once again, and soon there will be more than enough evil to keep everyone busy!
Expect more frequent posts in the near future as the spirit starts seeping back in. And all our favorite things once again become relevant.
Also, if you’re in NYC, there are auditions on September 19th and 20th for the Nightmare haunted house.
Look, I’m not above admitting that I only run this site to extol the brilliance that is Matt, the man who runs the original “remember this?” site: X-Entertainment. He’s been doing this shit since before youtube, before blogs were called “blogs,” and before anyone was talking about Thundercats after 1988. He is a genius, a gift, and the reason I read the internet every day. Well, no one online quite appreciates Halloween quite like Matt does, and Matt has begun his 2011 Halloween Countdown. Observe and appreciate. You owe him:
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.
If any of you know me, you know how badly I shit my pants when I rediscovered these commercials.
Do you remember them? Late 80′s/early 90′s? Leslie Nielson? Coors Light spokesman? HALLOWEEN FAN?????
Allow me to refresh your memory:
YEAH. I THOUGHT YOU’D REMEMBER!
Seriously. If I had to die today and with my last breath give two final “I love you”s, they’d be to Coors Light and Halloween. Maybe beef jerky too, but that’s another story. How good were these commercials? How could Leslie Nielson and Coors Light get away with this kind of stuff? Nice cans????
I have done my mourning for Nielson. I was such a huge fan, nerdily buying every one of his movies as they came out (perk of working in a record store in high school), always impressed with his comedy (Dracula: Dead and Loving It!). His impact and popularity were obvious, evidenced by the abundance of commercial deals and sponsorships he was able to procure during that time period. None more important than the Coors Light ones, obviously.
RIP Leslie.
Well, just as I couldn’t handle the excitement leading up to the Halloween season, I’m barely able to handle the grave loss of the same season.
It never fails, that it takes us a few weeks to recover from Halloween to find the motivation to even post cross-links on the site. Much less try to write anything original or inspired.
This year, I am grateful that it only took me a week to get back around to posting. It seems that the weather has helped. The transition from decent NYC weather to dark/depressing/frigid was pretty sudden and instantaneous, and that makes me realize that as the days get darker, so does the mood. So I have no reason to be sad.
One great thing about the cold season is that my horror movie watching/comic book reading goes up exponentially, so hopefully I’ll have a lot more motivation to review such things. Sitting by a fireplace, drinking alcoholic cider.
Really great read here on some memorable Halloween movies.
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Get ‘em while they’re hot, and you’re 12…
