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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1m

"When people ask you what you did with your life You'll say 'I hated L.L. and I carried a big knife.'" #llcoolj

🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 21h

If replacing the cartridge and cleaning out the crud doesn't fix it you should be able to replace the valve seats as well (look up tutorials on youtube) instead of replacing the whole faucet.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 21h

Wow, great job youtube algorithm, you're really dialed into the kind of stuff I like. Thank you for recommending "Un cafe con Jesus."

Creepy AI slop illustration of an attractive young woman walking through a park with a very handsome, sexy Jesus. They're both wearing headphones and carrying takeout coffee cups.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 22h

Oh and the metalheads stealing the old lady's gazebo. That one makes me laugh so hard I can't breath.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 22h

I was always partial to Bruce McCulloch's surreal short films. "Every day we shovel coal, every day we work in silence"; the guy who cleaned up roadkill and sold it to rich people; and the guy who owned a wig shop but denied wearing a wig. "No one must ever know my terrible secret!"

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 23h

One time in Berkeley a woman walked out into the middle of the street and started yelling at me about how I had made her miss her mother's funeral and she was going to kill me. She seemed interesting and I wanted to hang out with her, but I'm shy around new people. Do you know her?

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know that in the original script Freddy’s crimes were more horrific (CSA, in addition to murder), so I wonder if some of that stuff was more explicitly spelled out too.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Witch's Cat (1955) by Hilda Boswell

Painting of a witch riding a broom above rooftops. A cat is watching her.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

"Only in autumn days, as summer slowly faded, would their confidence again be dashed by doubts and misgivings at symptoms of decay, which told how vain were all their efforts to stave off for ever the approach of winter and of death" (Frazer "Golden Bough") 🎨 Vincenzo Lamolinara #Spooktober

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dammit, I need to actually get around to reading that one of these days. And that art is incredible.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

... (whose cultural frame of reference doesn't extend any earlier than Leave It Beaver) would have us believe.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But, IMO, the naughty stuff is also important because it contradicts the popular narrative that America was always puritanical and moralistic and things have just gone to hell in a handbasket since the 60s. People were a lot less prudish in the early 20th century than a lot of people these days...

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wow, I don't think I ever made the connection before that he was also in those Miracle-Gro commercials from the 90s.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card with black cat in centre sat by broomstick in middle of full moon surrounded by four pumpkins.
‘A MERRY
HALLOWEEN’
"for Ways that are dark and tricks that are vain"
Watch out!

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I travel a lot for work and I often have to find lunch or dinner in random out of the way places and no matter what, a burrito is always a good choice. Luckily most of my travels are in California, so there's almost always a place that has burritos nearby.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love how I get my best ideas for any particular book when I'm working on a completely different book. That's awesome.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I live near the coast and this week has been crazy. Heavy rain to start the week, followed by a couple really warm days, so the mushrooms just popped out all over the place overnight.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of these guys yelled really loudly at me and our dog when we were coming home from our walk this afternoon.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Are there people who think this looks appealing? I'm not just saying this because it's AI, that genuinely looks hideous. The shrimp (presumably) look like centipedes.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh god, it's so hard to find any of that kind of stuff that isn't AI anymore. I miss the days when you knew that the "10 hour rainstorm with crackling fireplace sounds for relaxation" video you were watching was made by true video artisans.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The glass was actually originally made with a small amount of cobalt oxide or cobalt carbonate to give it the color. It's probably my favorite color and colored glass is one of my weird random obsessions haha.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I actually knew that, because I'm mildly obsessed with the color cobalt blue.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, but also it's the fact that we, as a culture, have become hostile to whimsy.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hahaha It's true I've driven by so much stuff in my life.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know why I'm so bad about posting animal pics. I mean, that's the entire point of social media. Anyway, here's a pic my wife took of our dog, Mochi, at the beach yesterday. It was nice and sunny, but since this is Oregon there was also the ever-present frigid wind.

The most adorable dog in the whole wide world. She's black and tan and is standing on a beach looking to her left and panting.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This whole album is the soundtrack of Summer 2003 for me.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I often drive by the Berkeley Marina when I'm in the Bay Area for work and I *always* think of this song (well, and The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink).

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reginald Veljohnson. If you needed someone to play a beleaguered cop in the 80s or 90s, he was the man. (I never actually watched Family Matters, so I'm always amused to be reminded that he was a cop even on that show).

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have given myself a spooky moniker, as is tradition. I have also replaced my puppy avatar with whatever the hell the ghostly creature in this trailcam picture is. bsky.app/profile/good...

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She’s the second execution Tennessee has botched just this year.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My father is a plumber and I worked for him for a couple years so I know enough to fix things that I’m too broke to get a professional to do. But I was a sullen teenager when I worked for him so I didn’t learn as much as I should have.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Noodles, noodles, horrifying kangaroo statue, noodles...

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think I first got this as a teen or in my early 20s and it was seminal for me as well. I always recommend it to anyone who is just getting into horror. I think I have three copies of it now, just because.

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I sort of have basic plumbing skills, but I am very much not local (I gather you're somewhere in the midwest?)

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🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃 @ghostforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The number of people still acting like This Is Normal is what's mind-boggling.

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