Halloween Countdown 2018, Day 3
Oct. 3rd, 2018 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitToday I’d like to recommend a website: Odd Things I’ve Seen (The Halloween Die-ary Edition).
At Halloween, it gets even better: “During that season, the Jekyll of OTIS becomes the Hyde of a Halloween blog. That means daily content, content, content, content, content (to bastardize Garfield on his Halloween adventure). Not all of it oddity and travel-based, though, as is my usual focus. Anything that you can shove a jack-o-lantern on top of is fair game. That can be movies and decorations and activities and random thoughts and a much wider range of experiences. Anything goes as long as it goes well with Tim Curry’s number on The Worst Witch. Here, take a stroll through the OTIS Halloween Season archives. That’s better than my attempt at an explanation.”
Trust me. If you love Halloween, you will love this site.
(Photos above by the brilliant Elizabeth.)
In the words of award-winning macabre travel author, blogger, and children’s novelist J.W. Ocker, Odd Things I’ve Seen is where he chronicles his “visits to hundreds of oddities of culture, art, nature, and history across the country and world.”
At Halloween, it gets even better: “During that season, the Jekyll of OTIS becomes the Hyde of a Halloween blog. That means daily content, content, content, content, content (to bastardize Garfield on his Halloween adventure). Not all of it oddity and travel-based, though, as is my usual focus. Anything that you can shove a jack-o-lantern on top of is fair game. That can be movies and decorations and activities and random thoughts and a much wider range of experiences. Anything goes as long as it goes well with Tim Curry’s number on The Worst Witch. Here, take a stroll through the OTIS Halloween Season archives. That’s better than my attempt at an explanation.”
Trust me. If you love Halloween, you will love this site.
I can define history in two words: Dead people. And that’s also how you define a cemetery. The older the cemetery, the deeper the history. We’re talking pioneers, founding mothers and fathers, local leaders, everyday heroes. Every epitaph is a paragraph of Earth history. And some of them are murder accusations.
- J.W. Ocker, “I’ll Dig Cemeteries ’til the Day I Die” on Odd Things I’ve Seen
(Photos above by the brilliant Elizabeth.)