Another Halloween Has Come and Gone


Another Halloween has come and gone and another Horrorthon has come to a close.  We hope you have had a wonderful October and that the Thanksgiving month brings you much to be grateful for!

And remember, just because you didn’t see the Great Pumpkin this year, doesn’t mean that he won’t be there for you next October.  As always, Linus puts it best:

To all of our readers and from all of your friends at the Shattered Lens, thank you.

The Dodgers Win Game 6!


It’s a Halloween miracle!

My prayer to the Great Pumpkin paid off and the Dodgers just won Game 6 of the World Series, 3-1!  The Series is now tied and whoever win tomorrow’s game will win the championship!  As much as I don’t like the Blue Jays and even though the Dodgers are not my team, those two teams have really give us a great World Series so far!

It all comes down to Game 7, tomorrow night.  GO DODGERS!

And never doubt the power of the Great Pumpkin!

A Scene That I Love For Halloween: The Rules of Trick-Or-Treating From Curb Your Enthusiasm


We did not get many trick-or-treaters tonight but the ones that did show up were all wearing costumes and were all age-appropriate.  When it comes to giving out candy, I follow the rules set out by Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Remember: no costumes = no candy!

Have A Culty Halloween With The Pulps


Since the start of the pulp era, cults have been a popular subject.  Usually dressed in red and concealing their faces behind hoods, cult members have menaced and frightened.

For this Halloween, here are some of the cults of the pulp era.

by Walter Baumhofer

by Arnold Kohn

by John Newton Howitt

by Rudolph Zirm

by Tom Lovell

by John Walter Scott

by George Hargis

by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

by Hugh Joseph Ward

by John Drew

by J. Allen St. John

So, I Watched Psycho Party Planner (2020, Dir. by Jake Helgren)


Kayla Anderson (Lindsey McKeon) wants to give her daughter, Kerry (Cathryn Dylan), a sweet 16 party that she’ll never forget.  She hires a party planner but unfortunately, Lindy Shores (Katrina Begin) is a psycho party planner!  Lindy only gets the job because she murdered the party planner that Kayla really wanted to hire and then she starts trying to corrupt Kerry.  Lindy is who she says she is.  This party is going to be murder!

You know what’s really psycho?  Throwing a big 16th birthday party when you’ve still got an 18th birthday party, a high school graduation party, a college graduation party, an engagement party, a wedding reception, and a divorce party to plan for.  Save your money!  My 16th birthday, I got a cake with one candle and I had to beg my sisters to at least let me have the part with my name on it.  And I was happy to have it!  I didn’t a planner to know how to party.

I liked Psycho Party Planner because the daughter looked like she was 30 but she was still only celebrating her 16th birthday.  It’s good to start denying your age early.  Even though the Psycho Lindy turned out to have a lot of bad things up her sleeve, Kerry still got to have a party.  It didn’t look like a great party to me but it was planned by a psycho party planner so I guess it was as good as it could be.  The high school drill team performed and they were terrible.  They’re not going to get to State with those moves.  “If you can’t handle a birthday party, how are you going to handle the pressure of keeping everyone’s spirits up when our guys are losing to Lake Highlands?” as my old cheerleading coach used to say.

Psycho Party Planner was dumb but fun in a “What did I just watch?” way.  Who would have guessed planning a party could be so dangerous?  I’m going to plan all of my future parties myself so if they turn out to be psycho parties, I’ll know exactly who to blame!