Hey, I'm Benjie, the star of ABC's "Huggies High". You know, we had a lot of fun today, but one thing is no joke: Potty training. It's a gateway to dry beds, pull-ups, and even boxers. Remind your friends. Potty training isn't cool. Just say no. This message brought to you by the Ad Council.

Carl the Collector is like my newest obsession, it's an amazing kids show. It's going to be known as "that show about a raccoon with autism" but it's so much more than that. It's just got this really good positive energy around it. Folks should check it out.

Successful Thanksgiving dinner for two: turkey breast with miso-honey glaze, green beans with shallots and vinaigrette, sage sausage stuffing, baked mac and cheese, crescent rolls, and mulled apple cider.

My Halloween movie list for 2026 is off to an... interesting start.

Ah yes, the two genders (and cultivars of apple); Paw Patrol and Bluey.

If only. I dream of an internet where I didn't have the worst people I know thrust in my face constantly no matter how I try to block them.

The 31st Halloween movie is "Hocus Pocus". What can I say, all time great. Happy to wrap up my month watching this on a plane. Happy Halloween all! Do fun stuff! Eat candy!

The 30th Halloween movie is "Death of a Unicorn", a newly released horror comedy that's... a mixed bag. There's some good stuff in here, but the on the nose "rich people bad" is just too obvious to be interesting satire. Anthony Carrigan is great though.

The 29th Halloween movie is "Talk to Me", an Australian horror with demon possession and some fantastic acting. Strongly recommend this for horror fans but it's a really intense watch. This is like the opposite of cub Halloween.

The 28th Halloween movie is "A Vampire in Brooklyn", a 1998 horror comedy. Not as bad as its reputation but also not super good; the humor feels pretty dated, but it's got personality and it's a fun movie when it's not making jokes about dicks falling off.

The 27th Halloween movie is "Urban Legend", a 1998 horror movie about a killer making urban myths come true. Terrible. The college campus setting is wasted, the kills are improbable, at one point the protagonist is in the room while a murder takes place and is oblivious to it. Zero stars.

The 26th Halloween movie is "Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost" , a direct to video Scooby-Doo movie with Bobby Flay in it that was better than it had any right to be. Not top notch animation or anything but for a Scooby-Doo special this was an entertaining Halloween watch.

New reality TV show idea

The 25th Halloween movie is "The Faculty", a 1998 horror that mashes up The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers while setting the whole thing in a high school. Fucking awesome, what a great horror movie. Can't believe I waited so long to see it.

The 24th Halloween movie is "My Bloody Valentine", a 1981 horror movie about murders taking place on Valentine's Day in a mining town. Glad to be able to check it off my list, fine but not amazing. Great setting, the story needs work. Reveal comes too late. Also yeah all the screaming, boo.

I watch a lot of horror for my Halloween month, and none of the typical complaints bother me: the jumpscares, the cliches, the dumb character behavior, pointless gore. I can get through all that. The one thing that drives me absolutely nuts about horror movies: the screaming. It's unbearable.

The 23rd Halloween movie is "The Changeling", a 1980 horror film about tragedy and loss that manages to avoid so many of the cliches of that theme. This was a great supernatural horror. It's slow, but beautiful cinematography and music really helped; also nice to see one set in Seattle.

The 22nd Halloween movie is "Sinners", and wow this was amazing. A vampire movie centered on a black community in Mississippi during the prohibition era. Fantastic original premise and the execution was amazing. Putting this in the same category as Weapons just in terms of completely loving it.

The 21st Halloween movie is "Cat People", a 1982 remake of a 1940's film. This is about people who turn into panthers and kill,and uh wow I was really impressed for the most part. If there's a downside to this movie it's the incest talk. So much. Incest is a major plot point and boy it's weird.

The 20th Halloween movie is "The Wolf House", a 2018 stop motion animated movie, implied to be the work of a cult. It's... well. How do you feel about visual art films without much story to them? Did you love that no talking episode of Bojack Horseman? You'll probably like this!

The 19th Halloween movie is "The Old Dark House", a 1932 horror comedy. It suffers from some similar pacing problems as White Zombie but otherwise they're quite different for two movies that came out at the same time. Pretty good with some laugh out loud moments, but very dated feeling.

The 18th Halloween movie is "White Zombie" , a 1932 horror classic, in which zombies are used as slave labor. On the one hand, an all time classic that has influenced a ton of future films, and a great Bela Lugosi performance. On the other hand, most of the other actors are bad and it's very slow

The 17th Halloween movie is "The City of the Dead", a 1960 horror about witches and witchcraft in New England. This was a wonderful little classic horror movie, lots of dread and some real shock. Well done for the time it was made. Also, all time great horror actor Christopher Lee.

The 16th Halloween movie is "Once Bitten", a 1985 vampire horror comedy starring very young Jim Carrey. 11/10. Winner. A vampire seeking a virgin in Los Angeles, with a lot of sex humor, and Cleavon Little (the black sheriff from Blazing Saddles) as a sassy gay vampire butler/manservant.

I am a little behind on my Halloween posting here... and watching... if I just do two posts a day I'll catch up by this weekend >.> I guess that is what I'll try to do!

The 15th Halloween movie is "Halloweentown", a Disney channel movie. I remember disliking and wanted to give it another chance. It was better than I remembered! Thoroughly OK, cubby fun. I just hate the rushed ending and the amount of human skin visible through the monster masks.

The 14th Halloween movie is "Gremlins". It occurred to me that this movie could be a metaphor for how parents feel about their kids becoming teens: cute little guys start staying up after midnight and getting into trouble, suddenly they're not so cute anymore. Don't grow up, kids! Stay smol.

frankly insane that 20-ish years ago some devs in japan said "how do we adapt mystery dungeon for pokemon," someone said "why don't we have the player be a pokemon," and as a direct result i now wear a collar and have about 5 online friends that identify as the mythical pokemon mew

The 13th Halloween movie is "Oddity", an Irish movie that actually makes golems seem scary. For the most part I liked this! It was very scary but some of the visuals needed a little extra work I think. Unfortunately including the last shot in the movie. Imperfect and for horror fans only but 8/10.

The 12th Halloween movie is "Witching & Bitching", also known by its Spanish title, "The Witches of Zugarramurdi". This is a horror movie that starts out with street performers conducting a heist, and gets crazier from there. A fantastic horror comedy with some dated "war of the sexes" themes.

The 11th Halloween movie is "Night at the Zoopocalypse", a recent release and an absolute banger. Inspired by Clive Barker and the only one of these with anything scary in it, this movie rocked. Hugely recommended for anyone, this is one I'll be showing cub friends in future years for sure.

The 10th Halloween movie is "Dear Dracula", an animated film about how Dracula gets his groove back by winning a middle school's costume contest. These are the lowest stakes of any movie I have ever seen. The animation feels extremely dated, but aside from that it was good! Solid voice acting.

I'm way behind on my Halloween posting! But I'm still watching one Halloween item daily. The last three were all cub appropriate Halloween fare, I'll list them worst to best. The 9th Halloween movie is "The Dog Who Saved Halloween", which somehow is the third movie in a made-for-TV series.

The 8th Halloween movie is "Dead Heat", a 1988 buddy cop movie in which one of the cops is also a zombie. SO. This is the best Halloween thing I've seen this October. In short: it's a fantastic action comedy that uses horror to mock action/cop movie tropes. With some bonus Vincent Price!

The 7th Halloween movie is "Scared Shrekless", which is... better than expected? It's just a half hour made for DVD bit, but they got all the original voice actors for this which was impressive. For a short non-scary break from horror it was OK! Am I saying this was better than Piranha ? Yes I am.

The 6th Halloween movie for this year is "Piranha", a 1978 horror that wants to be a funny parody of Jaws or something while also killing a bunch of kids at summer camp? So yeah, this sucked. Shots of tranquil water with dread implications just ain't cutting it for me.

The 5th Halloween movie was "Emesis Blue", a fan-made TF2 movie using video game respawns as an inspiration for horror. It's surreal and confusing at times, but that's on purpose and well executed overall. For a fan-made project this is really impressive. The voice acting is particularly good.

Tonight's Halloween movie was It Follows, a story of a monster that is passed on to others through sex. Despite how obvious the metaphor seems it was a pretty subtle film overall, more concerned with what sex means when you're young and inexperienced than the promiscuity angle. An enjoyable watch!

Today's Halloween movie was "Heretic", about a man who traps two Mormon missionaries in his house to argue about religion. This was a tense, fascinating, nice to look at movie... until suddenly it wasn't nice to look at, and then the ending was terribly botched. Worth seeing, yet a let down.

Today's Halloween movie was "My Best Friend is a Vampire", a 80's teen comedy with good vampires and evil vampire hunters. A+ 80's movie complete with a montage and Rene Auberjonois. I've seen it before but I don't remember liking it this much. Maybe it helped that I saw it with friends this time

Best caretakers at their own game. They can't put you back in diapers, if you never get out of diapers to begin with.

Jumping into this year's 31 days of Halloween watch tradition with the original 1984 "Children of the Corn", which I don't think I've seen before. Most of all I would say this is very boring. A ton of time walking through empty Midwestern houses like I'm the main character in a walking simulator.

After months of training, I completed my first triathlon this weekend. The swim and the bike went super well! The run portion, uh, well... I completed it anyway! It was really fun. I'm very sore now.

In a random act of kindness, a friend heard I was looking for this "20 Big Dog Run (No Bones About It)" pin, and that I was willing to pay an unfair amount of money for it, and he just gave me his for free.

My character is a red and white husky with no specific markings. I love me but unique and original it ain't. 100% certain that the follow up I would get if I responded is some version of "pay me to draw your character"

I'm glad everyone agrees it's spooky season already. Halloween deserves two months, minimum!

Successfully put up a bike rack in my garage this weekend, yay! Also, my mission to cover my bike in dog stickers is well underway!

And then a friend pointed me to the PBS Kids YouTube broadcast of Halloween things so now I'm watching that to calm down after scary game.

Having mentioned that horror media is one of the other things I like to post on here; wow, my boyfriend dug up "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" and got me to start playing it today. This is the best horror video game experience I've had in a long time. How this didn't sell I can't imagine.

Hello to all the new followers from my joke about punishing middles. Now back to the real purpose of this Bluesky: baking and horror movies. Made this lemon poppyseed Bundt cake! This is the first time I've had it come out of the pan and keep the shape (credit to my boyfriend who greased the pan)