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Sep

24

Another Nightmare in the Making

The invitation for the Tenth Annual Nightmare Before Halloween has been posted. Actually, I don’t think the word “invitation” cuts it anymore. This baby is over 5 minutes long. It pays homage to all the hard work and great times we’ve had over the years.

This year’s theme, “The Ghost of Halloween Past”, is all about celebrating our tradition of insanity. With any luck we’ll see plenty of callbacks to old themes and costumes along with a few new surprises.

We’re also quite excited about our Thrill the World dance which will kick things off. I know most people are awfully reluctant to dance – especially when it takes time to learn the full routine, but this is a pretty unique event. For five minutes or so, our little corner of chaos will join over 300 sites around the world in celebrating the best horror song of all time. I’m hoping that most people remember how reluctant they once were to get in full costume with a bunch of adults, and give this a shot, too.

Oh well, one month to go!

Danny Elfman – This is Halloween

Filed under Halloween

Sep

10

Opener in the Horseshoe

Last weekend D and I ran up to Columbus for the first football game of the season. The Buckeyes struggled much more against Navy than they should have, but it made for a great game.

Things went a little awry when, at 29-14, OSU missed an extra point early in the fourth quarter. A little later the Bucks failed to convert on a 4th and 2. On the very next play Navy jumped to within eight (29-21) after a huge completion for a score. On the next Ohio State drive, Pryor’s pass was intercepted and another Navy TD followed. With the score at 29-27, Navy elected to attempt the 2 point conversion. After a horrible forth quarter, the Buckeyes finally stepped up. Navy’s endzone pass was intercepted and ran all the way back to give OSU 2 points. With only a couple minutes remaining, OSU received the onside kick and ran out the clock, 31-27. Huge dissappointment averted!

Halftime was awesome, too, as TBDBITL was joined by the huge alumni band to perform the 4-way Script Ohio. At the end of the formation, John Glenn and his wife were led out as honorary i-dotters. From circling the Earth to dotting the “i”. Pretty sweet.