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Post-Halloween Haul

I finally found, in the wild no less, the vinyl I've once and future owned, the Halloween sounds album from my childhood.

I listened to Sounds to Make You Shiver (1974) quite a bit in Octobers of yore. Yore being the equivalent of approximately 36, 37 Octobers. Yeah, 10-year-old me would sit beside the stereo late at night when my parents were asleep and I would spin this up, fantasizing I was a vampire. These were the nights of the Gray Charles Haunted House at the old North Point Police Precinct 12. The police had the north side of the building while the Recreation Center had the south side. I looked forward to that Haunted House every year. And before and after going to the Haunted House I would play this record on our Kenwood turntable to get psyched!


I also had to grab this all-Halloween episodes Roseanne DVD. I have the complete show on DVD from Mill Creek, but to have all of the Halloween eps on one disc was just too good to pass up! This was something I've wanted to add to my collection for years... No more first-world disc-changing problems for me, sir!


And with this we wind down Halloweentober. Gale winds are ushering the harvest season out and it's beginning to feel more like winter than autumn. With that the spooky season fades away, like the morning fog in the bright sun. My final surviving jack-o'-lantern survives another day, but he doesn't look too happy about it.

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