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1 Vambo  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 7:05:30am

“While other people are going around getting free candy, other people are falling victim to human sacrifices”
“All the time, all the time…”

2 Jadespring  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 7:13:58am

Well that was good for a morning laugh. :)

3 Timmeh  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 7:18:31am

Actually she does celebrate Halloween.

wonkette.com

4 nines09  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 8:26:23am

They just haven’t found the bodies yet. I’ll bet being inside her head would be like being a BB in a empty rail boxcar.

5 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 11:23:07am

Reminds me of the Satanic Panic of the 80s. Church groups (usually spearheaded by creepy “youth ministers”) went on tours all across the country speaking to schools, law enforcement, city councils, etc. informing them of the wide-spread incidences of Satanic human sacrifice and so forth. They would make up the most bizarre things imaginable and present them as fact, and people ate it up. Including, most ominously, law enforcement agencies, who in some cases actually established “Satanism units” that set out to look for evidence of Satanic cults.

If you were a teenaged fan of heavy metal, you were probably “deeply involved” in Satanism. If you were not a fan of heavy metal, you were probably COVERTLY “deeply involved” in Satanism. And god help you if anyone found out you read something by Alister Crowley, Anton LaVey, or H.P. Lovecraft. Perilous times to be an introverted geek with insatiable curiosity.

6 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 2:15:11pm

re: #5 negativ

If you were a teenaged fan of heavy metal…

I was. It was a pain in the ass to own any albums that looked even remotely satanic (a highly subjective metric), and Black Sabbath was completely out of the question. The only thing that saved me was blank tapes and fellow metal heads who didn’t have screwy parents.

7 SpaceJesus  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 2:25:16pm

I blame Bruce Dickinson for how I turned out

8 Michael Orion Powell  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 2:37:48pm

re: #4 nines09

Or like being Jennifer Lopez in The Cell.

9 Michael Orion Powell  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 2:40:18pm

re: #5 negativ

Reminds me of the Satanic Panic of the 80s. Church groups (usually spearheaded by creepy “youth ministers”) went on tours all across the country speaking to schools, law enforcement, city councils, etc. informing them of the wide-spread incidences of Satanic human sacrifice and so forth. They would make up the most bizarre things imaginable and present them as fact, and people ate it up. Including, most ominously, law enforcement agencies, who in some cases actually established “Satanism units” that set out to look for evidence of Satanic cults.

If you were a teenaged fan of heavy metal, you were probably “deeply involved” in Satanism. If you were not a fan of heavy metal, you were probably COVERTLY “deeply involved” in Satanism. And god help you if anyone found out you read something by Alister Crowley, Anton LaVey, or H.P. Lovecraft. Perilous times to be an introverted geek with insatiable curiosity.

When is being an introverted geek not perilous? I only lived in the 1980s for about four years so I have to ask if there was a connection between that whole crusade and Tipper Gore’s war against free expression in music.

10 AntonSirius  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 3:09:57pm

re: #3 Timmeh

Three options:

1) She’s since realized her views on Halloween were nonsense.
2) She was just saying that crap on Maher’s show because she figured the more crazy shit she spewed, the more often she’d get invited back and thus raise her profile.
3) She still believes what she said, but has since (or already had) pledged her soul to Satan.

In order of likelihood I’d rank them 2, 3, 1.

11 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 3:12:15pm

re: #9 OrionXP

When is being an introverted geek not perilous? I only lived in the 1980s for about four years so I have to ask if there was a connection between that whole crusade and Tipper Gore’s war against free expression in music.

Not really. The PMRC was more or less a Temperance Movement of sorts, focused on dirty words and suggestive lyrics, not really so much on the Satanic Panic.

Having the “Parental Advisory” stamped on certain albums ended up doing her cause more harm than good.

12 Michael Orion Powell  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 3:15:36pm

re: #11 Slumbering Behemoth

Not really. The PMRC was more or less a Temperance Movement of sorts, focused on dirty words and suggestive lyrics, not really so much on the Satanic Panic.

Having the “Parental Advisory” stamped on certain albums ended up doing her cause more harm than good.

Oh indeed, but it did make for some great political quotes from Frank Zappa.

Have you ever read The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay? The last part of the book goes pretty in depth into the 1950s comic book scare that resulted in the Comics Code Authority and generations thinking that “comics rot your brains.”

13 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 5:18:51pm

re: #7 SpaceJesus

I blame Bruce Dickinson for how I turned out

You could have done MUCH worse.

14 Michael Orion Powell  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 6:35:23pm

Wow! 54 RTs. Thanks, guys.

15 Fenris  Sun, Oct 31, 2010 7:58:35pm

Of course she doesn’t celebrate Halloween. She’s not a witch.

16 lostlakehiker  Mon, Nov 1, 2010 4:42:55pm

I celebrate Halloween. It’s a bacchanal of sugar, fat, greed, and begging. It’s perfect! A little letting loose from the strait and narrow of bran flakes, fruit, lean meat, strict deportment, self reliance, and so forth is good for kids.

A little dipping the toe into the waters of scary is also a good thing. Call it an inoculation.

17 Michael Orion Powell  Mon, Nov 1, 2010 10:24:33pm

re: #16 lostlakehiker

I celebrate Halloween. It’s a bacchanal of sugar, fat, greed, and begging. It’s perfect! A little letting loose from the strait and narrow of bran flakes, fruit, lean meat, strict deportment, self reliance, and so forth is good for kids.

Don’t get your life mixed up with children there. How many kids do you know that are self reliant?

18 theheat  Tue, Nov 2, 2010 1:53:30am

You know what’s scary? That weakass grown-out perm and barrettes.


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