“Only one who has witnessed the awesome spectacle of demonic manifestations can fully understand the mind-numbing horror of pure evil made flesh. Body and spirit quail beneath the overwhelming emanations of terrible energy released during such an invocation, and it is not an experience for the faint-hearted however potenet the protective magic.”

Amazing.

Matty and I took in the 4th Annual Midnight Movie Massacre this past weekend. This 24 hour horror movie bender at one of Chicago’s richest cultural treasure’s - The Music Box Theatre - has become an annual tradition we indulge in to celebrate the best fucking month and finest of holidays.

The movie selection was pretty great this year, starting with John Barrymore in “Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde” backed by a live pipe organ accompaniment, “Dead Alive” at midnight, and closing at 9:30am on Sunday with William Friedkin’s still cripplingly terrifying “The Exorcist“.

I finally was able to see the french classic “Eyes Without A Face” which I can’t recommend enough. But clearly the highlight of the weekend was Lucky McKee’s off beat slasher (?) movie, “May“. Following an oddly alluring young vet clinic assistant through several aborted attempts at love and acceptance, “May” manages to thread it’s surprisingly sweet and sympathetically violent logic throughout the entire narrative ultimately tying off with the only morbid bow possible. The acting, particular by the lead Angela Bettis and Jeremy Sisto is remarkable, the directing and writing is intelligent without being pretensious or overly self-conscious, and the development of May’s unique quirkiness is painted with a studied realism that allows the otherwise hyperbolic and impressionistic narrative to float safely above it’s own murky waters.

Much of this movie’s tone and temperament and humor reminded me of “Heathers”; smart, compassionate, yet wickedly self-assured. I’m looking forward to checking out more of Lucky’s work very soon.

Apparently that attack on a GOP worker by an “Obama supporter” who allegedly carved a “B” into her cheek was faked…

i’m thinking if by some cruel (and probably illegal) twist of fate McInane gets elected his first act as president should be to officially change the national anthem to the Looney Tunes song.

That’s all folks!

“The Changeling Skull, found in St. Eisel’s tomb, is thought to bleed whenever a soul is lost to Lucifer.”

Here’s the second part of the Alfred E. Smith Dinner on October 16th at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Here’s Obama:

In case you missed it McCain and Obama roasted each other at the Alfred E. Smith Dinner on October 16 at the The Waldorf-Astoria in NYC. The Candidates were surprisingly funny and human.

Here’s McCain’s performance as broadcast on the Rachel Maddow Show:

“It is ironic that the very enchantments and countermeasures produced to protect the vulnerable tourists serves to drive back the demonic hordes that they came to see. As a result it is now necessary for enthusiasts to venture ever deeper into the hinterlands in search of their prey and their intrusions accelerate the process of withdrawal. Some believe that in one or two decades the land will be empty of all but the most inoffensive sprites. Others, however, do not believe that the Legions of Hell will so easily surrender their last remaining stronghold on the surface of the earth and predict that before long there will be a terrible counter offensive to win back these traditional lands.”