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Joy Division- She's Lost Control
Trick or Treat, Charlie Brown! It sure is fun when Charlie Brown and his Peanut pals get together for the big Halloween Celebration. In fact
Every October from 1966 until 2020, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" etched itself into across the collective consciousness of young darklings with it's once a year broadcast on network television. (To watch it, click on the above link & jump to 5:45 on the timeline.) The importance of "The Great Pumpkin" to me and my fellows, regardless darkling or normie, cannot be overstated. Elementary school children simply did not miss "The Great Pumpkin." However, it lost much of it's 'weight,' for lack of a better term, once VCR's became available. Prior to those wondrous devices, you literally only had one chance per year to watch "The Great Pumpkin" - that's it. To be a kid & miss "The Great Pumpkin" airing was akin to Linus fainting and missing the arrival of The Great Pumpkin, himself. I recall hearing the tragic tale of one kid on the school bus who had missed the airing the previous night as his house had lost power & we all sat in silent horror at this revelation - a fate worse than death or dentist visit.
Of course, me being me, I had already somewhat prepared for such an unthinkable eventuality by having acquired a copy of the 1967 book adaptation of "The Great Pumpkin." In the 70's, my folks choose to live in the boonies, so losing power for no reason was something that could happen. Fortunately, I never did have to cower in a dark corner, clutching my well worn book copy, silently cursing the Fates for inflicting such an indignity upon me. After all, this was one of those vanishingly rare instances where the book version was objectively not as good as the TV version.
(Just as an aside, my fav Charlie Brown character was always Schroeder. I never gave it much thought, but Schroeder is actually kinda goth with his dark colors, quiet demeanor, & music obsession, so...makes sense. I imagine when he hit his teen years, he joined a goth band, died his hair black, & played wicked dark keyboards at countless gigs.)
Fast forward a few years & I can still vividly recall my profound shock at learning a friend of mine, who owned an early VCR, had recorded "The Great Pumpkin" upon it's previous airing. It was a singular wonder to be able to watch something you could previously only have seen once a year, watch it whenever you want, & not even need to find the most sincere pumpkin patch as prerequisite to do so. It was as if you could reach up into the heavens &, with a simple twist of hand, rewind the celestial sphere back in time to the previous eclipse or passing of Haley's Comet, so staggeringly cosmic in power it seemed. There we sat, watching "The Great Pumpkin" in early December of 1981 & it was a big enough deal to me that I still remember it as if it happened merely a month ago. And I wasn't even really that much into it anymore as I was 11 going on 12 at that point & was eager to put 'childish things' behind me. But I still watched it right the way through. I'm sure it found it's way to most folks VCR's during the 80's, & was officially released on VHS in 1988 & DVD in 2000, so I'm sure nowadays it's a rare household with children which lacks their own copy of "The Great Pumpkin."
Of course, there were other Halloween children's specials eager to rake in the chips like "The Great Pumpkin" did, but none of them ever reached the same level of quality as "The Great Pumpkin." Unlike most other Halloween children's specials, "The Great Pumpkin" has several sequences that, to a child, are legitimately spooky, such as the intro sequence, Snoopy making his way behind enemy lines, & the rising of 'The Great Pumpkin' in the pumpkin patch. I can still recall cynically thumbing through the TV Guide at any given year's new entries & weighing each against "The Great Pumpkin." Be it "Halloween is Grinch Night," "Fat Albert's Halloween Special," or "Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween," all were decidedly lacking. There were some older ones that I'd see on local independent stations that were reasonably good, such as the stop motion "Mad Monster Party" but even that was still a distant second. To this day, no Halloween children's special can hold a Jack-o-lantern to "The Great Pumpkin."
So this Halfway to Halloween, take a 25 minute break to revisit everyone's favorite Halloween special, & may the pumpkin patch in your particular neck of the woods always be the most sincere.
creaturesfromelsewhere 4-29-2024
Lisa and I were cleaning out our closet upstairs, looking for stuff we have accumulated over the decades to throw away in a kind of Scandinavian Death cleaning frenzy (except in a slow motion frenzy). In a copy paper box full of letters from Lisa when she was at Rice and I was at UT, I found a poem I wrote in the fall of 1979. It had appeared in a special poetry issue of Images, a weekly entertainment supplement to the Daily Texan. My poem was heavily influenced by objectivism via William Carlos Williams and Charles Reznikof with a little bit of e.e. cummings thrown in: the poets I had read the most of at the time. The poem was a very judgmental snarky observation about family trips, called Spent Holiday. What can I say? I was nineteen. I knew it all. Marion Winik also had a poem in the issue; hers was better. After reading through the Images, laughing at the dollar off of the $3.95 deluxe dinner at Matt’s El Rancho coupon, I placed the Images issue back into the box of Lisa’s letters, then put the box back in the closet.
THIS ISN'T WORDGIRL!!!!
Garfield has a Trans Aunt (06/25/1979)
Pass it On
Watch "Total Eclipse: piano trio" on YouTube
If you haven't I very much recommend this impressive cover of 'Total eclipse'
I’ve been working on a fanfic plot lately, i think it’s one of the best i’ve been doing, since i haven’t see much fanfics with the same idea/plot on Ao3 or Wattpad, for example.. so, yeah, can i call this thing original? i think that yes, so.
well, since this shipp is my new addiction, as you can cleary see it in my name. i’ve decided to do a fanfiction, yeah, sparrington, what a suprise. but well, ilet me just cut to the chase of this post already;
so, on this, it’s more of an AU. passes on the late 70′s, in london. So, Jack is a few years younger on this, as well as Norrington. Why? Basically, when it comes to describing character’s feelings or passions, i tend to dramatize it very much, which on my perception, only works for more younger characters. Don’t get me wrong here, but is because i think that older characters could handle their own feelings and passion better than young ones. That’s one of the main reasons of why i reduce their ages.
Knowing that, Jack is 20 years old and Norrington is 22 years old. Only a few years of diference, huh. So, Teague owns a assassination business, and well, Jack is one of the emplooyes there, of course. Then, some persons - which i didn’t decided who would be, but i think it’s going to be or Beckett or Salazar, i don’t know yet. - who Norrington its in debt, decide to contact this company. The job of killing norry goes to who? the dumbest motherfucker here, Sparrow.
He accepts the little easy job there, and well, goes to Norry. On a first sight, Jack goes like “Oh, let me tell you Norry-dear, you’re in debt and deserves it, since you couldn’t even make it to pay it.” but, decides to give James a little “time” of 15 days to pay his debt, only because he thinks James doesn’t deserves the death - well, yet. - aand bc he’s kinda lazy. And also, i couldn’t forget to metion that Jack kinda likes having a nice talk with his victims just to, you know, give them a more.. idk, nice death? at least having a last talk.
Well then, since James accepted the time he had - which the persons he had in debt obvously didn’t knew about it - and for 15 days, Jack goes to him to have a talk. Doing it, both endeds up well, falling in love. Huh, had to add a little bit of cheap romance to this history, i’m sorry. And these persons knowing that Norrington isn’t killed yet, they go for who? Jack, since it was his job in the first place. And of this point beyond, i don’t know what it’s going to happen. For now, that’s all i can tell y’all.
Soo, i’m going to let here a “taste” of the prologue for y’all. And also, i’m so, so sorry if there’s any grammar mistakes y’all may see. English isn’r my native language and i’m still learning it. So, just going to let it here. If any of you like it, reblog this, comment or anything, just let me know.
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“I have a new work for you.” Teague voice came across the room, filled with authority. Jack stood up, his dark eyes walking to Edward’s face. A smile came across his face, and he made a sign with his hands, silently telling Edward to continue with his sentence. “Well, Jackie, you’ve got to kill James Norrington.”
“Oh, huh. I see. Am i going to get any money out of it? Because, if so tell me, d you have any information beyond his name?” Sparrow asked, arching an eyebrow. Edward took a few steps, giving him a piece of paper, which seemed to have an adress. “Huh. An adress? I assume he lives there, so? I know this place. I don’t think is going to be very dificult, also.” Smiled again, a smile who didn’t contained any emotion. “But in any case, i have to know the reason why someone would want he dead.”
“Why would be that? A job is a job. Isn't necessary to have a reason behind that." Teague said, again, his voice completely filled with authority. Still, the smile in Sparrow's face only widened. br>
“You know i don’t kill anybody without a reason. I don’t want the guilt of killing someone that’s innoccent on my back.”
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