GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE (214th Issue)

This monstrous Halloween Ho Down blog has all the tricks and treats. Like Vampira, Morticia Addams, Esther Williams, Elizabeth Montgomery, Veronica Lake, Elvira, Vampirella and udder crazy stuff

Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira the horror hostess

Carolyn Jones doing Morticia Addams

People on United States postage stamps who abused opiates

Esther Williams

Halloween Ideas From 1884's Hottest Costume Guide

The Bewitching Veronica Lake

Why don't real witches wear panties?

So they can get a better grip on the broom...

Vintage Hollywood Halloween Rule 5

These vintage Hollywood seasonal promotional stills are a tradition with the Evil Blogger Lady

Photos of Halloween in the New York's Subway

Halloween Thai Style

Haunted Attractions and Spook Shows of Yesteryear

American Actresses with Their Halloween Vintage Photos

People thought ghosts, witches and scary people like departed mothers-in-law would drop by their homes for a visit. To keep them away, they would carve faces into potatoes and turnips, place a candle inside and put them in windows.

It didn't take long for people to change All Hallow's Eve to Halloween. The pumpkin replaced the turnip, and kids in rubber Nixon masks replaced the ghosts as scary visitors.

"...we must, we must, we must increase our bust!"

How can we do Halloween without a dose of Elvira (the undisputed Queen of Halloween) tricking and treating?

For a long time, Vampirella models were just about the only girls you would see at comic conventions. There have been several official Vampirella models, and the width of the strips of fabric that make up their costumes has changed with the attitudes of the times.

All the covers of Vampirella Magazine

A Gallery Of Great Horror Comic Book Covers For Halloween!

Halloween on The USS Enterprise

An amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000.

Vintage Photos Show Strange and Terrifying Halloween Costumes from between the 1900s and 1920s

Digitized Phenakistoscope Animations That Pre-Date GIFs by Over 150 Years

Some retro, vintage and crazy Science Fiction stuff. Plus lots of cool stuff from the International Space Station (ISS)

This little chart will help the Kollektive to overcome stage fright and become more successful in the climate debating scene. Let us reiterate the talking points:

Weather is what we can see and feel; climate is what the state and the prog-media tell us we ought to see and feel.

Weather is measured in traditional layman units; climate is measured in Progressive Thermal Units

Weather historical data is public knowledge; climate historical data is classified, restricted to trained state climatologists only, and is subject to change without notice.

The Concept of a Noble Lie

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ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has made the first in situ detection of oxygen molecules outgassing from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, a surprising observation that suggests they were incorporated into the comet during its formation.

Beyond Pluto: 2nd Target Chosen for New Horizons Probe

US Senate passes 1984 Cisa Internet spying bill : Cisa would create a program at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through which corporations could share user data in bulk with several US government agencies. In exchange for participating, the companies would receive complete immunity from Freedom of Information Act requests and regulatory action relating to the data they share. DHS would then share the information throughout the government.

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
The information found in this timeline is based on the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. National Security Agency (NSA). It is intended to recall all the credible accounts and information of the NSA's domestic spying program found in the media, official government statements and reports, and court actions.

Rule 5 - The Fish Chick - Brooke Thomas

There were medications in the waters. Our medications: Our anti-depressants, painkillers, birth control. I read about it in the papers. See, all of us were taking our meds. Dutifully. Like the good little patients we were. We were taking them and our bodies were breaking them down. Using what we needed and then pissing the rest away – literally! And it all wound up in the lakes and in the rivers and in the oceans. In the end, it all wound up in the fish...

Phantom Fins of Pharmacology