EER!

Why isn't eer a word? There's eerie... but no noun version of it. I don't want to say "I like eerie things." I want to say "I like eer." I guess it would sound like "ear" when spoken and people would wonder why you like ears and then wonder why you said ear (singular) instead of ears. And then you would be that weird kid.
But, we are weird here at the trope, so I'm going to say it:
I like eer.
Aaand, since Mollie wrote a lovely post that was not about halloween and it's way past halloween (so now is obviously the time to post halloweeny things) I'm going to list some of the eerie things I like. (Also, I'm officially giving up on the idea that our posts won't be in list format)

*Twin Peaks- Duh. I figured I'd just go ahead and put that first since I'm sure you already knew it was coming and would just have been waiting for it. And what's the best way to enjoy Twin Peaks? (other than with your secret lover, obviously) With Twin Peaks-themed food, of course! Heavenly pie, damn good coffee, and creamy brie on baguette. Ok, so that last one was only in one episode, but it just sounded absurdly delicious. And so that's what I did! I could've probably used some donuts, too, but I am not a policeman--just a Dale Cooper and Peaks enthusiast.

*Travel Channel shows on America's "spookiest" and "most haunted" places. Pun-filled narration + vague visuals + over-dramatization + ??ghosts?? = quality TV for *any* season! To be honest I'm not entirely sure why I love these so much. The narration does amuse me quite a bit actually, and it's interesting to hear the backstories to these supposed ghosts. One of my favorite places they often list and discuss is...

Be careful with the door to nowhere!

*The Winchester Mystery House- While this is less of a story of a ghost than it is of a woman who believes in a haunting, the whole of it is really interesting.  The story goes that Sarah Winchester, a woman with a wealthy husband and beautiful daughter in the late 1800s, was so distressed after the sudden death of her husband and child that she sought out a medium in Boston.  The medium told her that the deaths of her loved ones were caused by spirits that haunted her family and fortune.  These were the spirits of men that had been killed by Winchester rifles--American Indians, Civil War soldiers, and others.  The medium stated, though, that there was a way to keep the spirits at bay.  Mrs. Winchester must move west and build a great house for the spirits, the construction of which must never stop or Mrs. Winchester's life would be in danger.  Sarah Winchester did just that, moving to San Jose, California and hiring construction workers to build a maze of a house without stopping even on weekends or holidays.  It is said that Mrs. Winchester conducted seances to decide what the construction plans would be.  The mansion is full of doors that open into walls, stairs that hit the ceiling, and secret passageways. If you want to see one of the travel channel segments about it, it's right here.

the happiest halloween

i know, i know.

we said we'd post exciting october things but here it is, the last day of october, and we've barely posted all month. SOOOORRRY.

also happy halloween!!

i was considering making a halloweenier post, but lately i've been listening to this song on repeat, and it's hardly halloweeny. it's more like...Stuff You Listen To When You're In Love.

maybe you're in love with a person or a dog or maybe the world or yourself or a book or a movie. but me, i'm in love with the world today, and that makes me that annoying, giddy girl that walks around singing to herself and eating chocolate cake. but i love it! (duh. i love everything.)

no more sulking about in my cut-off wedding dress quoting the virgin suicides! only yellow dresses and candy corn and dancing around and tasty coffee all day looong!

here's some happy things [that i will try desperately to relate to halloween]:

movies:
-penelope
a fairy tale--that's halloweeny right?--about a girl born with a pig face. (not to be confused with this girl with a pig face.) christina ricci, james mcavoy, really cute clothes, magical sets, and some reese witherspoon-ing. (something about reese witherspoon makes me love everything! she's so happy and blonde and wholesome or something.) one of the final scenes is even at a halloween party!!

-she's the man
the poster movie of my generation? don't tell me you don't love this movie. amanda bynes, channing lots-of-abs-or-something, that really funny guy who plays the principal, and the plot of twelfth night! this was the first movie i was allowed to watch in a theater with no chaperones, and for me it will always be full of decent jokes that i will never not laugh over. plus, shakespeare is all about crossdressing. you know what else is all about crossdressing? HALLOWEEN. bam.

(a quick list of my fave nineties/00s teen flicks: she's the man, 10 things i hate about you, john tucker must die, easy a)

coffees:
-quick, capitalize on starbucks' pumpkin spice latte opportunities! you've got nine hours[ish] till the pumpkiniest holiday ends. also, sometimes on halloween they give out free cookies and stuff. run, run and give the corporate machine your cash!

tv:
-what's creepier than the trope's fave tv show TWIN PEAKS? (answer: nothing. nothing is creepier.) halloween it up and laugh with dale cooper and the gang. just try not to, in your lovey state, focus too much on the whole dead people/double lives aspect. (extra points to anyone in a twin peaks costume. double triple extra points to anyone dressed as audrey horne because i love her.)

books:

-today is not a day for books! i can't sit down and focus. today is a day for archie comics! read about the trials of archie, betty, and veronica. dress up as jughead. laugh with moose and reggie or one of the other characters whose names escape me because it's been ten years (a lie: it's been like two) since i've read an archie comic.

-or read the article in usa today about THE HAPPIEST WOMAN IN AMERICA! (it's me!) (no it's not!) (but i feel that way!) (the point is the happy!)

so go, tropers, and curl up with a slice of fallin' in love pie (waitress reference, anyone?) or do as i do and dance around the room to "stars" on repeat then hide in the closet and wait for your roommate to come home.

OCTOBER!