Potential Halloween Outfits for the Orange Menace

Royal Kitty

I don't know what this is..

Angel Kitty

Rooster or Witch

Spaghetti Cat.

The Jester collar was sold out unforch.

Picnic at Hanging Rock..

Yesterday I finally saw Peter Weir's "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975). The film has been on my radar for a long, long time, but I never got around to seeing it. After Rue Morgue named Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel as "must read" I figured it was time to move the film to the top of the Netflix queue. I am so glad I did because this is a really creepy film. And while it is not "scary," it did give me nightmares all night long. I didn't sleep worth a shit.

This is the actual Hanging Rock in Australia. I was under the impression that this was based on a true story, which is what Joan Lindsay and the filmmakers want you to believe. It is not. She wrote the book as a "false document" and refused to confirm or deny that the story was true her whole life. Set in 1900, it is about a group of schoolgirls who go for a day trip out to Hanging Rock. Three of them, along with a chaperone, don't return. A week later, one of the girls is found in the rocks, asleep with no memory of what happened. And that is it. No explanation, no answers. It is really unnerving. Anyway, my nightmares consisted of possible explanations of what happened to the girls. And they went on all night. What is cool is that the novel became an obsession of sorts for other writers, and there was actually a book published a few years ago of possible explanations. Lindsay herself wrote an "ending" to the novel with an answer to what happened to the girls, but wisely took it out before the book was published. Three years after her death the 6 exorcised pages were published. Anyway I spent all morning checking it out on the Internet, and the best site I found is, or course, from some Ghost Hunters. http://www.castleofspirits.com/picnicathangingrock.html

Bizarro

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Bizarro.dtl

What do I do now??

I finished the final book in the "Twilight" series (the teenage vampire books.) Thank god the movie comes out in November and the "companion" book comes out in December, because I wouldn't know what to do with myself. Does anyone know of any good teenage zombie books I can obsess over? How about a good teenage ghost story? I mean really. What has happened to me? My only consolation is that EVERY woman I know is reading these books. I have to go now. I am going to Target to see if I can buy a "Twilight" Trapper Keeper or something...

The Orange Menace meets Abbott and Costello

The cat and I watched Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein last night. I have never been a huge Abbott and Costello fan, but this film was really great and made me very happy. Bela Lugosi is great in it. You know this film was only the second time he played Dracula. He played other Vampires in other films, but he only played Dracula twice...

Costello sorta annoys me, but I love Abbott. I love a good straight man, and he was probably the best. Last time I saw this film I was a kid, and I remember it scaring me (I was horrified by Frankenstein's Monster). As an adult I see how the humor is quite "saucy." If I was not in the middle of a netflix obsession with Vampires I would go on an Abbott and Costello jaunt. But that will have to wait.

I really wanted to see "Hamlet 2" today, but it is not playing anywhere around here. It was co-written by Pam Brady, who writes for South Park. I want to see it because of that, because I love Steve Coogan, and because it features underprivileged Hispanic kids performing in a play about a time-travelling Hamlet. It also has musical performances of songs entitled "Rock me Sexy Jesus" and "Raped in the Face." Put those songs together with "Boats and Ho's" and you have my soundtrack for the summer...

Yummy in my Tummy...

For the life of me I still can't figure out how to post video. Some things were never meant to be. Check this out http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_soup/b24769_cat_eating_spaghetti_case_closed_america.html

I am doing fine without TV but I do miss The Soup.

Only 74 days till Halloween..

Much to my delight yesterday I found out that Walgreens is already selling Halloween crap. So I spent my last dollar on this bat, my first Halloween decoration of the year.

It is because of shit like this that the Orange Menace wakes us up at 2:30am every night.

(No cats were turned into vampires during the making of this photo essay.)