Shocktober

I love October so much, in no small part because Halloween has always prompted every TV station to start playing non-stop horror movies (or the present-day equivalent, where it makes it somewhat socially acceptable for me to buy up tons of horror movies on DVD all month) for me to enjoy. Just of the ones I've seen in my big ongoing marathon this month, some of my favorites have been the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original, ultra-creepy and not-as-violent-as-one-might-think classic), Let's Scare Jessica to Death (another super-creepy 70s horror - I think the art of making horror movies creepy and unsettling rather than loud and in-your-face has largely been lost over the years), Fortress (a great, somewhat low-key tale of a schoolteacher and her students in Australia who get kidnapped and have to fight their way to freedom, in a surprisingly brutal Lord of the Flies-ish climax), and Arachnophobia, which I've seen like a hundred times before and yet had never gotten around to getting on DVD before. So what are some of your favorite horror movies?

what goes down...

This morning I was rushing to get ready in the bathroom. As a result, I made a little boo-boo. The hair clip slipped out of my hair as I was pacing around and....fell into the toilet as it was flushing! I would have tried to save it if it just fell into the water but there wasn't a chance as it got sucked into the toilet world. I really hope that the clip went all the way through and into the sewage system, if it gets caught and causes backup issues.....eww. Not to be gross (though it's going to sound gross) but I figure that the clip is like a medium size and compared to what some people may flush naturally, it's either the same size or smaller. So if that can go away, why should the clip be any different? Right? Right.

So what's the weirdest, biggest, etc thing you've ever flushed down the toilet? Purposely or by accident. I've never been one to flush dead fishies down the toilet. Though I must admit, at school, I did flush the dead tadpoles down the toilet. But I was told to do so and that I couldn't throw it into the garbage so technically it wasn't by choice!

heroes

How appropriate of an entry huh?

Has anyone else started to watch that new show Heroes? I am so anticipating when they will show all the full fledged powers. With some of the characters, they only show you little peeps into their abilities and you're left guessing what exactly they can do. As of now, the cheerleader is nuts! She basically can heal any part of herself, even regenerate body parts. It's crazy. This makes her very similar to Wolverine but better, because she doesn't seem to feel any of the pains inflicted upon herself (ie: suicidal jumpings, fire, fingers being grinded off, neck being snapped so that it's facing her back, etc).

Whenever I'm asked what super hero power I'd want to have, I never can really pick one. I'm just too greedy when it comes to this! The idea of being able to heal people has always been a nice one but then a part of me wants something much cooler...