Purple Stuff goes Monster Mini Golfing!
One of my favorite things about the Halloween season is the constant encouragement to go on silly adventures. How else would I end up playing miniature golf in a glow-in-the-dark dungeon?
In the latest Purple Stuff Podcast minisode, me and Jay from The Sexy Armpit play a round of Monster Mini Golf!
If you’ve never heard of that chain, they create absolutely wild indoor courses, where creatures lurk around every corner and everything is bathed in blacklight. It’s pretty great.
Give the show a listen by clicking here!
Aside from our ghoulish golfing tales, you’ll also hear about our horribly misfired attempt to eat pumpkin spice pizza. We even debut the podcast’s brand new theme song!
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The Halloween Whopper: Two Years Later.
Exactly two years ago today, I tried one of Burger King’s Halloween Whoppers. You remember them, right?
The Halloween Whopper was the shining star of the 2015 Halloween season. Even a thousand articles about green excrement couldn’t ruin the moment.
I’ve been running the Halloween Countdown since 2003. Even with all I’ve seen, I’d still probably call the Halloween Whopper the single best spooky food promotion of the last 15+ years. It was completely magnificent. Well, except maybe for that one part.
So taken was I with this beastly burger that I did something a touch nutty, even by my already loose standards:
Yes, I have kept a Halloween Whopper in my freezer for the past two years.
(In its original wrapper, because I truly do consider this a collectible. Send help.)
For verification purposes, I took this photo with a copy of today’s New York Post clearly visible. Notice how Trump seems to be pitching his tax plan specifically to the Whopper?
There’s rarely been a need for trigger warnings on Dino Drac, but this is a special occasion. The next few pictures are of a two-year-old cheeseburger. If that’s the sort of thing that might ruin you, stop reading now. Read More…
Matt Madd 2017: Halloween Junk Bag #3!
Today was an all-in-one video day, so I am now deliriously tired and a sworn enemy of proper sentence structure.
On the bright side… mission accomplished! Here’s the latest Madd Matt video:
Madd Matt’s third bag of random Halloween junk for the 2017 season includes everything from a “spider larva ball” to an adorably tiny pumpkin pail. Watch it above, or in a scary larger size on YouTube.
My next orders of business involve blanket forts and “Do Not Disturb” signs and hopefully a secret cache of fun-sized NutRageous bars.
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Grimace from McDonald’s used to be evil.
Y’all remember Grimace, right?
The purple dude, I mean. Ronald McDonald’s de facto best friend.
Throughout my childhood, Grimace was constantly on television, making commercial breaks tolerable with his adorably dopey demeanor and never-say-never attitude. (I’ll remind you that he once caught a literal freakin’ star to give to Ronald for Christmas.)
He was probably the most “purely sweet” character on TV at the time, which is what makes this next part so interesting:
Grimace used to be a VILLAIN.
Yup!
Originally, Grimace was known as The Evil Grimace, a milkshake-stealing monster with four arms and a bad attitude!
That version of the character debuted in 1971, and spent several years as Ronald’s foil. This was all well before my time, and I gotta tell ya, seeing an extra-armed dickhead version of Grimace would’ve totally blown my mind as a kid.
The Evil Grimace even starred in several McDonald’s commercials during the 1970s. Three are collected below: Read More…