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Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood
And whomsoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the Thriller

Yes, this is Thriller, Thriller night, and no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.

Happy Halloween. I wonder if we will get any little Halloweeners tonight? Billy and I didn’t even carve pumpkins. I can’t find a Chuck Amato template anywhere.

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In other news, Rest In Peace, Jam Master Jay. Why the hell would anyone shoot him? Other rappers I can see, but why Jam Master Jay?

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Fell back this morning, so it’s only 11:22 am. Sweet. Too bad it will get dark at about 5:30 now.

As many of you know, I am creating quite a collection of music videos in MPEG format. I do this by downloading them from people who have converte their old VHS tapes to digital format. . Last night I downloaded “Sail On” by the Commodores. Cool old video, very 70s. But at around the 2-minute mark, coincidentally when Lionel Richie has just finished singing the words “I’m looking for a goooood tiiiime. . . “, it switches to a porn film. The music is still overlaid, blended really, with the choppy porn video. “Good times never felt so goood. . . ” It’s weird. Kind of funny, but I’d rather just have the real video.

Got me an electric teefbrush yesterday. I like it. My teeth felt real smooth after using it once. It actually makes brushing teeth enjoyable, and it does a much better job of cleaning teeth than the traditional toothbrush, or at least with a lot less effort. Unfortunately the outlet in our bathroom seems to be dead so I have to plug it in in my room.

What to do today? I guess Melsinator is still throwing down at the House of God, but after that, the fair maybe? Just in time for the depressing end of it, I guess. I dunno. I’d prefer doing something, anything besides sitting on my ass all day like I did yesterday until 8pm.

This song is awesome. Too often overlooked, if you ask me.

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Okay. We visited the Bo on Friday night, and I am okay again. Ahhh.

Tech support all day. One computer. Windows sockets killing me. Damn Kazaa and damn Windows online support. That’s not as exciting as what’s about to hit you in the eye. . .

Weekend Recap!

Saturday morning, “leaving at 10 o’clock” meant “leaving at 10:45.” Still, we took the back way to the massive traffic jam and then parked at Jason’s new apartment, where Billy ate a sun off of his car. Threw the ball a bit, then walked to the game. We were in the last row of the lower deck, and it was wind tunnely there. We were not able to see the scoreboard easily, but were able to view TVs until the middle of the second quarter. At that point one of the guys near us, of a group that may actually have been too dumb to be a frat, screwed with the TV channel and couldn’t get it back. So we got a blue screen. I was able to view a nearby TV slantaways, but it wasn’t easy.

The game was ugly as hell. We beat Duke 24-22. It was. . . ugly, but we won. We won but I felt as though we had lost. I can’t believe Duke. It doesn’t matter how much they suck, they always play us close. As long was we continue to always win, I can’t really complain too much.

Afterwards, Jim and Billy had a fun time arguing over what sort of badly played defense we displayed. That was enlightening inasmuch as I found out that both of them argue extreme points and don’t get anything resolved. We arrived at the fair, paid to get in, and went in. Saw goats, sheep, bunnies, cows, uh. . . geeses, mullets, corn dogs, robot, pottery, Depressing Village of Yesteryear, a lake, milkshakes, guy climbing a tree with rubber hose and spiky-boots. Ah yes, and the ornate cakes and a giant pumpkin. Saw no butter sculpture, was mighty disappointed about that.

I ingested a cup of cider, a corn dog, a steak & cheese sub, some onion rings, half a milkshake, and a small fraction of a giant damned bucket of root beer. Fair = indulgence. Jim had a deep-fried candy bar, and enjoyed it thouroughly. What a good boy.

Oh! Passing by one of the semi-permanent eating structures, the Amran Temple food place, the announcer said, right as we walked by, “This is the best food you ever put in your mouth!” Yes! The phrase we have all come to know and love!

Anyone wanna go back? It ain’t the State Fair without putting the best food you ever put in your mouth in your mouth. Melissa? Eh? Habitat can wait, Ham Biscuits For God from the Cary UMC come but once a year.

Sunday Dayoclops showed up at our house unannounced, well-dressed from church and did his laundry. Then the four of us boys went to Crabtree while Mandy played with pottery on campus. Dayo bought a San Francisco Giants hat because he is on the bandwagon. He even said himself that he is a bandwagoner, which takes some of the fun out of calling him out on it.

We saw Julius Hodge at the food court hitting up the Haagen-Dazs stand, and I believe that freshman point guard Dominick Mejia was with him. Dayo noticed them first, and began talking about going up and introducing himself. I am not much for bothering people, plus I am not too outgoing, so I could not see myself doing that. I wasn’t hungry but I wanted to get a Bailey’s shake from Haagen-Dazs, so I thought about getting in line behind the basketball players, but I figured that Dayo would notice and walk up and say something like “Hey, Julius, my friend Tony here really wanted to say hi to you, but he’s too shy.” And I’d look like a groupie.

We also walked past the Gap Kids store and I noticed that one of the mannequins in the window was wobbling a bit. Some kid who was preppily dressed and aged about 8 or 9 was standing alongside that mannequins with a fleece jacket pulled up over his head so the neck of the jacket was on top of his head. He was striking a pose and holding it pretty well, and we busted out laughing. That kid was awesome.

Pictures from the game and fair were taken but are not up yet. One day.

Back to work.

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HOLY CRAP I HAVENT BEEN TO BOJANGLES IN ELEVEN DAYS

I CANT BELIEVE I AM STILL ALIVE

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Eclectic and disjointed and uninteresting drivel follows:

Cold and rainy today, and I enjoy it. I am Robert Smith-ing it up again, eh Bridget? But for real tho’ — I am enjoying the nastification of the weather. It’s about damn time October showed up.

State fair opens this weekend. New thing = fried Oreos. I’ll stick with the traditional fried candy bar, I think.

Also this weekend: Duke football game at the Carter. Outlook cloudy for my attendance. 6 vouchers for 7 people. Next year we gotta get season tickets.

Sniper struck again the other night at that weird Home Depot in Seven Corners. You’d think they’d catch him soon. That was pretty bold. Apparently some people saw him this time and describe him as having a complexion of a Hispanic or Middle Eastern guy. That’s just what we need, for him to be a Middle Eastern Muslim. Then when he gets caught, we have a bunch of bleeding hearts all over the place saying the government was looking bad and they needed to arrest someone, and hey, who better to arrest than a Muslim? Because you know how the government is. They just want war and oil and dead Muslims. And money. And to kill puppies. My inner devil’s advocate should shut up and continue weaving a hemp necklace.

I made a pretty good drink mix the other day. Got a recipe for it off allrecipes.com. Chai Tea mix, they call it, but it tastes to me like vanilla cider. Tastes good. It damned well better. Cardamom is $13.39 a bottle, and ground ginger $5.99.

Jason is pretty much moved out. We are thinking about what to do with it. I think it will feature a computer, TV, recliner, books, other chairery, books, carpet, books, and liquor. In other words, no idea. Of course, we don’t want it to become a junk room.

Into the rain go I.

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Hmmm. An interesting day, and I did not even leave the house.

The Bad:
A grad student killed another (female) grad student and then himself on campus. A murder-suicide. Apparently it was a 49-year-old man, with the handgun, on the tennis courts by the gym. The only thing that keeps this from being very scary (as in dangerous to others) is that there was some kind of domestic dispute involved, so the man was out to get her and that’s it. Turn to the Big 5 for more.

Billymander is in Atlanta (they called from Greensboro at 9 pm last night, stuck in traffic – they had left here at 6). They are there because Steph is spawning a younglet, who they are planning to give the unfortunate name of “Raven.” (I will discuss that later) Chris is in Greensboring, and Jason is MIA. The result = I am home alone. Don’t like it so much.

The Ehh:
FSU lost to Miami. Missed a FG at the end. Dayo lamented earlier. No doubt he still does. The guy who missed the field goal is from Tampa. Dayo banished him.

I watched Reservoir Dogs.

The Good:
Ohio University! Football juggernaut! Homecoming against Eastern Michigan, and the Bobcats rolled it up – 55-27! Woo hoo!

Appalachian State beat Furman in a manner that made it to SportsCenter. Game is at App, and with 7 seconds left, Furman scores a TD. That puts them up 16-15. They decide to go for two. Things go wrong for the Purple Paladins (haha, you’re named the Purple Paladins, that was already wrong). Furman tries a pass for 2, but a portly gentleman playing for App intercepts the pass and begins running towards the opposite end zone. The problem with the opposite end zone was that it is very far away, especially for someone so fat. Cruel irony dictates that those with the greatest energy stores are those who can not effectively burn them. So he huffs and he puffs and then he says “the hell with it” and laterals it to a faster chap on his team, who continues to the opposite end zone for 2 points and the astounding win.

But of course, best of all:
NC STATE 34, FANCY NANCIES 17. The first half was very hard to watch, as it looked like yet ANOTHER game where UNC kicks our ass even though they shouldn’t. We went into the half down 10-7, and in the third quarter UNC scored to make it 17-7. It looked bleak. I was watching in my room because I did not want to be near Chris, who was watching in the living room. Chris tends to thrash and exclaim violently whilst watching sports television, which annoys me to no end, and I would have skewered him with a chair. He would have had four holes in him, like a rotund White Castle burger. See? These thoughts led me to go upstairs to avoid violence. Well, then State started doing well. Magic. We ran it and ran it and ran some more. TA and Josh Brown could not be stopped. TA escaped dozens of defenders on the field, and his lunch escaped him on the sidelines, but he kept going. There was much relief and rejoicing, and for a whole year we get bragging rights.

Here’s a fun game for you to play!

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Quote of the day, from a point-counterpoint in the Daily NOB about the NCSU-UNC game:

One reporter in Charlotte wrote that N.C. State fans are afraid of John Bunting. That’s like Axl Rose fearing the Pet Shop Boys. N.C. State fans are not afraid of John Bunting. We are afraid of great white sharks carrying AK-47s.

I am ready to see some slaughter up on the Hill.

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I have been sick for a few days now. Just the general miserable cold and sore throat and headache and ears-a-poppin’.

Monday night I took a 24-hour Sudafed, and neglected to read the “non-drowsy” on the package, so I got very little sleep Monday night. Non-drowsy means “contains uppers.” I couldn’t fall asleep till 1, then woke up at 6 when Mandy left and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I decided to leave for work early and got here at 7:45.

Yesterday, as the day went on, I got more tired and more sneezy. Left around 4. Napped for 90 minutes or so in the evening, then woke to sounds of Billy loudly complaining about work. We went to Chick-Fil-A (though I clearly asked for Chimp-Fil-A) and then we came home. I took two Benadryl and was out like a light – a light that had been switched off.

Slept like a baby — nay, a rock — nay, a petrified baby last night. Woke up and it was 82 degrees in my room. Felt somewhat better. As the day goes on, I get a little worse, so I am fixin to leave out of here soon.

In other news:

Billy went ahead and placed our order for season tickets yesterday, so he and I have tickets to all home basketball games this year (including the game we’re playing in Reynolds on Dec 14- I bought 5 tix to that separately about 2 weeks ago). The upper deck faculty/staff section, baby! My guess is that for the earlier low-attendance games, we will get student tickets and sit down below. Once student tickets become hard to get (ACC season), we will have our guaranteed seats above.

Soon I will do an Ohio recap. I had written a long account of that trip, then like an idiot I deleted it.

Jason is moving out soon, within a couple weeks. Moving in with Derek. It will be more expensive for us remnants, but not a huge deal really.

I leave you with this:

Melissa must be teaching again today, as her IM away message says:

Today’s Theme Song: “Hot for Teacher” (The Popular Van Halen Video will be reenacted during 6th pd geometry…j/k )

My homework was never quite like this!

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Dayo has just alerted me to more bizarre news from the Tampa Bay area! This, of course, follows the crazy decapitation in St. Petersburg just before spring break and the mauling of a zookeeper at Busch Gardens just after.

My God. I have never laughed so hard throughout an honest news article as I just did. Here’s an excerpt:

In the cluster of beige houses at Lime Street and Safford Avenue where Dechardonae lives, man and chicken have coexisted peacefully for years in quiet defiance of city ordinance.

That ended Monday afternoon, when authorities apprehended the offending rooster, named Rockadoodle Two, and its sister, named Hen. Hen was not involved in the attack, police said.

Read it for yourself: Rampaging rooster attacks girl

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