Eerie October Thread!
Happy October, everyone! New month, new thread! This will be your After Dark hangout from now through Halloween. Hope you get some use out of it!
Oh, and here’s something I threw together for ya. Built a YouTube playlist with 75 different horror movies, Halloween specials, creepy cartoons, spooky sitcoms and other random, longish things.
If you’d prefer to see the whole playlist at once, it’s over here. Consider it your last line of defense against any late night October doldrums.
Enjoy your October! I’ll be popping in and out of the thread throughout the month. Love that After Dark still gets a little action even after all these years!
Spooky September Thread!
Well, if I’m ever gonna update this place, September 1st is the right time!
Welcome to the 2022 Halloween season! Here’s your new thread! Have fun using it to talk about horror movies, spooky candy, scented candles and, I don’t know, My Pet Monster?
I’ve run this one before, but if you need a little background noise, here’s a playlist with a metric ton of vintage Halloween & horror TV commercials, all from my personal collection. (And yep, I’ll be adding to that collection throughout the season!)
I’ll be hopping in the comments here and there. Love that this place still sees a little action. It’s like a dive bar that can’t afford to fix its windows, but still has just enough customers to keep the lights on. Happy Halloween in September!
March 2022 After Dark Thread!
This is your official thread for March 2022. (Since the last update here was technically in 2021, yeah, we were long overdue for a new one!)
There ain’t much you can count on from March besides Shamrock Shakes, but this is when a lot of people start living again, after spending so much of January and February in a waking hibernation. (Not just me, right?)
Things I’m looking forward to in March:
The start of the 2022 horror convention season. Starlight Coke Zero. Getting myself organized now that I’m too far away from the holidays to blame them for being disorganized. Publishing at least one but hopefully two new videos. Finding out if I’m as gym-averse as I think I am. Hanging more framed bullshit in my other room.
What are you looking forward to this month? Spill it in the comments section, which also doubles as your March 2022 free-for-all thread. Talk about whatever ya want, all month long.
The End of 2021!
This is your weird, limbotic post-Christmas / pre-New Year’s thread! It’s always one of the strangest weeks of the year, right? Feels like half your body is cement, and the other half is a helium balloon about to pop in the stratosphere.
I hope everyone had a nice holiday season. I sure did. I said it a few times during Halloween, but these celebrations really work best when we look at them like garnish.
I’m actually looking forward to the “drier” months to come. There isn’t too much to grab onto from January through April, but that can be motivating. After spending the last 4+ months trying to tie so many of my activities to the time of year, it’ll be fun to get a little creative and just see what’s out there.
As kids, we’d all be on break for school this week, free to spend every waking moment messing with our new toys and watching sitcom reruns. As adults, even if you did save some vacation time, it’s rarely going to be that relaxing. Hell, for many of you, the only difference between this week and any other week is that you might get off a little early on Friday.
Even if that’s the case, I encourage you to embrace the traditional spirit of those post-Xmas days. Find whatever time you can for reflection, and for walking around wearing a blanket cape, and for mapping out your 2022, and for binging some dumb TV series. Work in some pizza or Chinese, and leave the lights twinkling until Little Christmas.
This is a one-week free-for-all thread. Talk about whatever! I’ll update again after 1/1.
