Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Two days from Halloween. Seems like it was only 367 days from the last Halloween, but I guess time does fly when you’re having a stressful year, huh? What was I doing last Halloween? Well, I think we had just gone to the great BEAT Tour in Indianapolis on October 30th, and Halloween had landed […]
Read More Spook Me? Spook You!Friday is here, finally. And with it comes the true beginning of fall weather. We’ve had a few days here and there of mild temps -including upper 50s and low 60s for highs- but those temps were short-lived. We’d head back up into the upper 70s and 80s with all the humidity you could ever […]
Read More Out With False Fall…In With Real FallAll Hallow’s Eve is here. I’m sitting in the living room at 9:30 am on Halloween Day, rocking a solid 5 hours of sleep. No, it’s not that I had a bad night of sleep. It’s that we didn’t get home till 1:30 am last night and I didn’t end up falling asleep until after […]
Read More Halloween 2024 : Beat Tour, Spooky Movies, StaycationThere’s something about Halloween that has always felt sacred to me. Of course being a kid and going door to door getting candy from neighbors and strangers alike was pretty magical. So was heading out with a friend or siblings and that feeling of ghoulish camaraderie as you all huddled in a group, fighting off […]
Read More Halloween WeekWe are less than a week away from Halloween. The best stuff always goes by way too fast, doesn’t it? We wait and anticipate the spooky season for most of the year that when October 1st arrives, November 1st shoves its way to the front of the line. I’ve been working on a little music […]
Read More Collins : VHSIt’s been a pretty solid weekend. Honestly, the last two or three weekends have been what I would call solid time spent outside of work. Lots of record spinning, lots of walks, quality time with my wife…I guess what I’m saying is I can’t complain. But knowing me I will soon stumble upon some reason […]
Read More Welcome To The Future…And The Past : A Curmudgeon’s WeekendDepending on how tight of a grip religion has on you – or maybe you’re just a curmudgeon who hates fun – today is everyone’s favorite non-holiday holiday, Halloween. The day the kiddos(and some adults) dress up as their favorite monster and ghouls and go door to door in search of Fun Size chocolates. Of […]
Read More Halloween 2023I’ve been making a concerted effort to watch horror movies this month. Every weekend I’ve been watching something horror-adjacent. The last few years I feel like I’ll watch a couple movies and that’s it. I mean, what kind of horror fan am I if I’m only watching a couple spooky movies during the spookiest time […]
Read More The Horror…The Horror…Fall was making its presence known even before this past Sunday, October 1st. About a week and a half ago I noticed pine needles beginning to cover the driveway, then the front yard. For me, growing up in a pine woods there was no surer sign of fall than pine needles falling. Even more than […]
Read More OctoberIt’s October 31st, 2022. All Hallow’s Eve, the day where ghosts, goblins, and ghouls rise from the netherworld to steal souls, cook kids in in cauldrons, and give you lip when you don’t give them a full size candy bar(Fun Size? What’s so fun about it?) Yes, it’s Halloween. The one time of the year […]
Read More “You’re dressed as what?”