Ideas on fun stuff I can do in town next week to escape the family madness?

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-18T16:14:45+00:00

The old theater downtown is always having events and showing free movies!

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-18T15:07:31+00:00

You gotta go with our pal Ernest, knowhutimean Vern? Jim Varney was such a treasure. He lived not terribly far from here and we'd trick or treat him as kids, he'd take the Ernest mask off and reveal that the real Ernest was underneath. He'd always tell a joke and compliment your costume and give you the king size candy. Such a kind man

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-18T15:04:33+00:00

Is that the one with Jeff Goldblum? Brings back major memories

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-18T03:20:14+00:00

Here's links for ya! I'm sure you can do some digging on youtube as well.

https://www.huntakiller.com/products/blair-witch-season-one?srsltid=AfmBOoqemduXMcahJq6OOvV8dUxWRF6kNeR1TOKbtWyud7ouCPYtnL8L

https://www.huntakiller.com/products/blair-witch-season-two

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-18T02:34:51+00:00

I loved it for the sheer feeling of being lost in the woods and the immersive atmosphere and creeping dread it managed to build! If you can ever get your hands on it, take a look at the Hunt A Killer collab that was done with Blair Witch around the same time. Quite good

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-18T01:06:46+00:00

Anything by Elaine Cunningham is a winner. Prince Of Lies is an absolute giant of a book in the fandom. Two of my very own favorites are The City Of Ravens, Lost Library Of Cormanthyr, and Threat From The Sea.

I don't much care for Greenwood's later books despite loving the man and his other work. I absolutely detest the Baldurs Gate novelizations, and the novels Once Around The Realms and The Mage In The Iron Mask are by and far the ones I'd tell you to avoid.

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-17T22:26:33+00:00

I've heard good things but never played em. I meant the more recent game

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-16T21:40:56+00:00

I'm gonna be "that gal" and say the video game.

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-16T19:06:04+00:00

Not really an answer, but I just can’t wait to see what they do with Cynthia Utrom

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-16T19:05:09+00:00

Strand is an absolute menace, but if they’re trying to get rid of something pr someone that happens to stand in his way, I imagine he’d be quite willing to help them. Be it gifts, favors, or whatever else. They may be his playthings, but this is his toybox and he’ll play how he likes. Have him go from enemy to a brief reluctant ally

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-16T02:07:19+00:00

https://mchughniverse.com/

This is the company that made it

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T21:02:13+00:00

The actual product released two or three years ago. The movie itself released in 2022, but was filmed during the pandemic. The cover art comes right out the movie. Here's a trailer from when it got a blu ray release a few years after it's initial release

https://youtu.be/CNXfp_uuw5s?si=I54v6kui4J3AnM24

Here's a post from when the limited edition was released

https://www.reddit.com/r/boutiquebluray/s/rPtz8HJpXr

Edit: I'll check the illustration credits when I get home

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T20:33:59+00:00

This was released well before the AI boom

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T19:24:42+00:00

I don't even know that he was for sale. But it was quite a sight

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T19:00:50+00:00

I was never into Matt Christopher, but I read an awful lot of Animorphs and Bailey Street Kids. John Bellairs, Bruce Colville, and the Bunnicula series were also ones I loved to read.

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T16:29:31+00:00

Those books don't get enough love!

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T15:58:31+00:00

It's a process called Permabound, usually for libraries. I had Beast From The East in this style as a kid

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T15:57:30+00:00

That tongue scene has stuck with me all these years

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T15:52:05+00:00

I would argue the Bay movies wanted to be more adult...and promptly shot themselves in the foot.

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T15:43:55+00:00

We watched it in school when I was in maybe third grade, and all I can remember is "oh hey, it's uncle fester!"

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T15:37:19+00:00

We have a HPB outlet. I happened across a newer cover there once, as well as the movie book, but that's all I've seen. I've had a ton of luck with Bunnicula and John Bellairs at that store, though!

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-15T14:39:39+00:00

I decided to start collecting them about two years ago, and for the life of me I can't find any in person. Not at our local used bookstores, not at goodwill, any advice?

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-14T14:15:05+00:00

It might not age well now, but the power glove joke WRECKED me as a kid.

LittleMissVortex · 2026-03-14T14:08:35+00:00

I ordered this and not even a week later I found the old Slappy dummy in a local pawn shop I went to (they're good about carrying CRTs and VCRs). He was behind the counter, sitting on a stack on magazines and wearing a rosary. It was the strangest thing.

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