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Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Black Cat

With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend. Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair, or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome caresses. If I arose to walk it would get between my feet and thus nearly throw me down, or, fastening its long and sharp claws in my dress, clamber, in this manner, to my breast. At such times, although I longed to destroy it with a blow, I was yet withheld from so doing, partly by a memory of my former crime, but chiefly -- let me confess it at once -- by absolute dread of the beast.

-Edgar Allan Poe

Image by Julia Soboleva.

Friday, March 25, 2022

The Revenge Of Scar Stuff

One of the earliest Halloween-flavored blogs I recall finding was Scar Stuff [make horrid scars and gashes]. The best name ever and some really genuine and nostalgic content. He didn't post much, but just one of his posts was worth fifteen of mine. Then he just disappeared one day in 2014.

A few days ago, my friend Wren asked "Why didn't you tell me about this?!" and it was a link to recent activity by Jason from Scar Stuff. It was just one post, made in September of 2021. But it was loaded. And it made me pray that he was back for good. Here's hoping he's working on another blog post which will post soon.

Blogs are a dying art form. So out of fashion. So non-social-media. But they're important archives (I think). Easy to search and wonderful in which to get lost. I love curating material for my weird Halloween archive and database. And it's nice to be back, by the way. Over thirteen thousand posts and over fifty thousand comments. And, get this, over six million views since the beginning. I plan to be around until Blogger gives up the ghost or a solar flare fries our grids.

Click below for the Scar Stuff blog. And I encourage you to read every post, and click every link, and watch every video. The catnip video alone restored me to health after a rough week at work.

Thanks again, Wren!