This past weekend I did one of my favorite chores of the year- putting out the Halloween decorations. And when I say chore, I mean that. It is a shitload of work- but not quite enough so burdensome that I can guilt my family into coming over and helping me, like I do with the Christmas decorations. But that makes me think- Halloween decorations are all pretty standard at this point. Skeletons, ghosts, draculas, pumpkins, etc etc. Has anyone tried to expand the concept of what Halloween decorations could be? For example, maybe if they focused on real-life horrors. Like a pumpkin-shaped bowl full of pamphlets on the alarming statistics on the carceral system, or a giant inflatable Slobodan Milosevic, or a motion-centered animatronic black cat in a little doctor’s outfit that tells passerby they have colon cancer. Wouldn’t that be cute? Then you could get all indignant about it when people get upset- oh, I thought Halloween was supposed to be about scary stuff? Are you saying The Butcher of the Balkans isn’t scary? Use some common sense. If you were trying to incite some sort of incident against you, that might be a good way of doing it.
This week, JackJohn is back, and we begin with our long-anticipated wedding recap, a listener email, and the Mark Sanchez incident that feels like something one of us made up. Then it’s 3 more Mayhem Month stories, featuring a moron Japanese nationalist’s failed attempt at revenge against his mentor, a grocery store with a grizzly reputation, and a horrorcore rapper whose career ended when his life started resembling his lyrics
Mitsuyasu Maeno - 00:44:10
Atlanta Murder Kroger - 01:15:05
Big Lurch - 01:28:45
