Hairdresser
Chicago, IL
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One year ago today—October 23, 2025—I ended up in the hospital after having an “episode” during my shift at the haunted house, and far be it from me to deny all of you all an amusing—and introspective—story…
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Young people may not realize that Freddy Krueger was as big as Michael Jackson in the ‘80s.
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I really enjoy working at a haunted house but one month is more than enough for me.
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One of the funniest things about Freddy Krueger discourse is when people express that he’s only a child killer, not a child molester like that makes it any more better.
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As far as people clutching their pearls over sex and violence in horror films, there is a direct connection to the movement over the past ten years or so to “make horror respectable”, ie: winning Oscars and teaching young people their sexual desires make them a predator.
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Halloween at The Midget Club, 1968 (6356 S. Kedzie Ave)
Owner Parnell St. Aubin was a Munchkin soldier in The Wizard of Oz.
The bar operated on the South Side from 1948 to 1982 and had a low bar and bar stools to accommodate the proprietors.
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Motherfuckers really do be picking and choosing when “it’s just a joke.”
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It’s ridiculous how much CHUD (1984) FEELS like a Larry Cohen movie despite not being a Larry Cohen movie.
Horror fandom is like most subcultures: it advertises itself as welcoming to everyone, weirdos, freaks and outsiders but like any other club, there are people jockeying to be the queen or king of the scene and decide who gets let and and who gets cast out.
One of the funniest things about Freddy Krueger discourse is when people express that he’s only a child killer, not a child molester like that makes it any more better.
If TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991) were released in the age of social media, it would have been eviserated by online dorks in one size too small t-shirts, baseball caps and beards for turning the T-800 into a soft boy.
As far as people clutching their pearls over sex and violence in horror films, there is a direct connection to the movement over the past ten years or so to “make horror respectable”, ie: winning Oscars and teaching young people their sexual desires make them a predator.
However, when queer sexuality made its way into mainstream culture there were more than a few perpetually online loudmouths who took raising up queer sexuality to mean calling anything heteronormative at best lame and worst predatory.
