October 31, 2025

Happy Fridayween! Dust off those Jason movie Blu-rays and eat a bucket of candy till you vomit in it. The weekend’s here too, after all.

I am over a month late in updating my site. I was originally going to dedicate this writeup as a eulogy-of-sorts to evangelical psychologist Dr. James Dobson, who died on August 21. The founder of problem-solving think tank Focus on the Family, Dr. Dobson refined the art of beating children and telling teenagers that condoms don’t work. His magnum opus, Preparing for Adolesence, introduced me to the concept of my genitals undergoing imminent metamorphosis. That book gave many generations, including mine, such…tingly feelings, that lasted for a minute or so.

When Dr. Dobson wasn’t insisting that separated parents stay together for the kids, he was delivering a final screwdriver jab against pornography when he interviewed golf swing enthusiast Ted Bundy. To be fair, Ted cleansed himself in the blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ before his execution. Of course, this was after he scrubbed sorority girl out of his hair. For all we know, James and Ted have reunited in Heaven, with lots more to talk about.

But Dr. Dobson’s death was already such a long time ago, I figured nobody would care if I wrote a comedic screed on him. Moving on, then.

So, it’s Halloween again. Again, yes. Yesterday morning it was Easter. The morning before that was Christmas 2021. But what can you do? Halloween is special; one might say, sacred. It’s the one time of year where we can put aside all this immaculate prosperity to invite thrills into our lives. Because there is nothing scarier happening in the world right now other than ghost stories, urban legends about mirror hags, and tales of misused Ouija boards. Nothing dire or life threatening at all lurks in the headlines. Taking into account how stable the economy is, how calm the seas are between the world powers, God knows we need some stress in our lives to motivate us. Boo, there’s a vampire over there! Ha ha, got you. Vampires are made up.

Because of how important Halloween is, I should’ve been more prepared for it, with slasher movie and horror anime reviews ready to roll out. But I’ve yet to implement any kind of planning ahead for this project. Instead, I reviewed Dirty Work and Ninja Scroll, and I sank several dozen hours into Persona 4 Golden.

Oh, but as a spooktacular bonus, I replayed Silent Hill 3 at the eleventh hour. Be sure to read it before tomorrow, when we all go back to winning.