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November 2019

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Gift Ideas for the Witch in Your Life (Small Business Saturday Edition)

Thanksgiving already? Where did the time go?! I feel like just yesterday it was Halloween. Okay, who am I kidding? It's because I wish that every day was Halloween. Now, I'm not a huge believer or supporter of Black Friday craziness. I suppose it's because I worked retail for 8 years and I had horrible experiences on Black Friday as an employee. One year, people literally broke into the store that I worked at. They pried the doors open hours before our midnight, when our store actually opened. Another year, employees had to have police escorts to the building bec[...]

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Doctor Sleep: A Girl, Some Popcorn, and the Shining

Big Stephen King fan here, all us Midnighters are. When Doctor Sleep hit shelves in 2013, I was excited. A sequel to The Shining? One of my very favorite books? The answer to what happened to Danny Torrance? Yes please. I loved the book, but I'm not here to talk about that. Yesterday, I bought a ticket and a lot of popcorn, and took myself to see the movie based on Doctor Sleep. I'm not here to compare the movie to the book, because I read it a long time ago and comparing the two causes frustration. The movie should have its own space, be its own entity. Alt[...]

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The Edmund Fitzgerald

Hello, my loves! Man, it has been a minute. Life, kids, divorce, blah blah blah you know the drill. But I'm trying to get ahead of all the resolution making and kick things off a couple months early. Hence, my glorious return to this twisted little corner of the interweb. Let's dive right in, shall we? Nearly 44 years ago to this very day, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin. She carried a crew of 29 and a shipment of ore pellets, their path set to Detroit via Lake Superior. Now let's give you a little lake breakdown. Lake Superior is the l[...]

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Midnight Society Movie Night: Brightburn

Welcome to November! For all those who will be Nano-ing, you might need a break by the end of the month. For everyone else, you also need a night of horror fun. So join me in my live-tweet of Brightburn for...     This movie directed by David Yarovesky and written by Brian and Mark Gunn hit theaters earlier this year and gives us a different take on the superhero genre...an anti-superhero, if you will. I watched many Brightburn trailers as I haunted the theater last winter and spring. At first, I was intrigued, but wasn't sure I needed to see it.[...]