I started keeping up with Spookshows.com this past spring - it is one of those simple websites where someone (the Halloween Guy) decided to (A) put together a collection of something cool (vintage Halloween goods and decorations) and (B) make little money by re-integrating these beautiful designs back into our lexicon. In point of fact, I'm going to throw three separate but equally important websites at you:
- Spookshows.com itself. Go on. Peruse. I'll wait.
- The Halloween Guy's Flickr Photostream (the visual impact of most of this stuff is absolutely magnificent - I keep thinking about the work of Gary Baseman.
- The Halloween Guy's specific Flickr photo set of Vintage Halloween goods. I'm salivating. Really. I totally am.
Halloween Guy - I love you. Manly, Platonic love, but love none the less. Why? Because you've reminded me of how I used to sit in my living room floor and draw and redraw the ghosts, bats, cats, and haunted houses of the Halloween bags that I never threw out until they were ratty and thin (and which now, in retrospect, I perhaps should have never let go).
Only fifty-four days till the goblins come out - - - perhaps it is time for a little Ichabod Crane on DVD.
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