WTF?

Holy shit, guys...

I started this page in late February. It's now May and I didn't post a single thing during that time.

The last two months have been, without exaggeration, the craziest shit 99% of us have ever had to deal with. If you told me at the beginning of the year that we'd essentially be on global lockdown, I'd have said you were crazy, but would have been secretly paranoid that you were right.

I think the bulk of us are just trying to really power through as best we can. I know this has hit so many people in so many different ways. Personally, I withdrew from/and also reached out to my friends and family more. Honestly, next to staying safe when you have to go outside, connecting is the most important thing.

I really hope that all of you are doing your absolute best to stay healthy and happy during this time. I feel like I wasted two months of productivity, but seeing as how the days and weeks pass, it feels like no time has gone by. I'm hopeful that I'll rectify that a bit in the coming days. I make zero guarantees as life is too unpredictable to promise that.

But I will promise you this. Despite everything, we will get through this. It hasn't been easy and it will continue to be difficult going forward, but if the world has taught me anything, it's that the good will always outweigh the bad. You just have to look for it.

It's Positively Eerie

For as long as I can remember, I have always found comfort in words. Written or spoken, it didn't really matter. For a little less than a decade, I've tried to commit myself to writing in some form or fashion. Be it a blog, poems, scripts, or whatever. I wanted to have my words have as much meaning as others have had to me.

When I started writing on Blogger, I had A Halloween Treat. That name was taken from Disney's A Halloween Treat special that was aired in the 80's. I really had a lot of fun doing that as it came around the same time when I was able to find I could really express myself in different ways. I could decorate how I wanted to, I could buy whatever junk I wanted to, I could do what I wanted to it seemed. I funneled a lot of time into spooky things then and it was great. I even had a Halloween Christmas tree during that time. But I got tired of that and I started to post inconsistently because I felt that writing about just Halloween all year to be a chore. While others can do that, it just wasn't for me.

So next, I started The Midnight Jamboree. That name was taken from Disney's classic animated version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I always loved the Headless Horseman song and felt the term "midnight jamboree" was very evocative. It conjured up images of a spooky night and numerous scary things. I felt it was expansive enough to include more than just Halloween articles. But that, too, got very tiring. It also felt like it was just more about spooky things than I wanted it to be. I had started to change and mature during that time. I had begun getting rid of certain decorations and preferred to have things be a little more conventionally done.

(I also had a YouTube channel with my then girlfriend/now fiancee that used the same name for a time, but we found that to be too time consuming. When anything that you do for fun seems to become a chore, it's time to really reconsider it. If you want to seek out those videos, they are out there.)

But I still wanted to write about the things I loved, but those things started to change. About a year and a half ago, I suffered what I can only describe as a severe mental breakdown. I'm not proud of it or a number of things that have happened since, but I think it's very important to acknowledge it so you can understand why I had to be create this new blog. I thought I'd do something completely devoid of the spooky element and do something more straight forward, but that felt wrong to me. I cannot deny my love of the creepy and kooky things in life.

How could I properly include all the things that I care about, all the things that have and are currently happening to me, but still remain true to myself? I had no idea.

I have been trying for weeks to really find something that fit. A name that worked for me and truly spoke to exactly what I wanted to write about. I turned to my inspirations of music, TV, and movies to try to find the answer as I always do. But nothing really felt perfect. Then I found my inspiration in the likeliest of unlikely places...the 1964 album "At Home with The Munsters".

The third track on the album is "It Takes All Kinds of People" and it's sung by the head of the household himself, Herman Munster. I was listening to it without much thought, but then it got to a verse that I heard loud and clear. He sang "It's positively eerie when folks are bright and cheery. Well it takes all kinds of people to make a world."

There it was. That exact line. It said what I wanted to and more. So, the idea of Positively Eerie was born.

The third time is the charm, I hope. I mean, that's what they always say, right? I want this to be the effort that works and I have a very good feeling that it will.

This blog will focus on my interest, myself, and more. I'll be bringing over older posts from A Halloween Treat/The Midnight Jamboree here and there, but those original posts will live on as I'm not going to close down that The Midnight Jamboree like I did A Halloween Treat. You have to remember where you came from in order to move forward. I didn't always believe that, but I do now.

Well folks, here it is. Positively Eerie. Focusing on the positive and eerie things in life on the way towards making life better for those who seek it. Won't you join me along the way?