Thunderstorms and Garbage Pail Kids.

Wow!

I figured that Dino Drac After Dark would do okay, but I definitely didn’t expect the first entry to blow past 200 comments!

Course, that one was attached to the Halloween Countdown’s big intro. We’ll see how many of you remember to visit this place without such heavy prompting. 😳

During last night’s survey about background noise movies, a few of you mentioned things that were really just background noise. Hey, that works too! Take the video above, for instance. Several hours’ worth of thunderstorm noises, set to one static image.

I loooove videos like this. They’re great to go to sleep to (seriously, try it), but they’re just as awesome when you wanna make things like drawing or reading a little less infuriatingly quiet.

On a similar note, there have also been appropriations of those “holiday yule log” videos, with all sorts of Halloween twists. In this example, Michael Myers replaces the usual fireplace, and burns for four hours straight. How serene.

…and now for something completely different:

Geepeekay maintains a brilliant archive of every single sticker from every single Garbage Pail Kids series, and jeez, I forgot just how out there some of them were.

If you didn’t grow up with Garbage Pail Kids, the key point is that they were downright mainstream. Like, picture a 2nd grade classroom where 90% of the marble notebooks were covered in the seediest GPK stickers. They were that popular.

The stickers wouldn’t have been nearly as controversial if people who didn’t collect Garbage Pail Kids weren’t forced to look at them all the time.

Tonight’s survey:

(And I’m taking a nod from Adam Bomb on this one.)

Name something you were obsessed with as a kid… even though it freaked you out.

As mentioned on the site before, GPK stickers were rumored to be “bad luck” in my school. Between that and the fact that some of them really were too much for me to handle, I ended up scratching around three dozen stickers off of my wood-paneled bedroom wall, no longer willing to sleep with all of those crazy eyes on me. Yet it would’ve been only weeks before when my whole life revolved around getting another pack.

I could also toss Unsolved Mysteries onto that list. The series debuted in 1987, and I was with it from the start. I only missed an episode when it was impossible not to, even though half of them turned my nights into nightmares.

UFOs! Ghosts! Murderers! THAT MUSIC!

What were some of your spooky obsessions? Tell everyone, in the comments!