The Season of the Spooks

Here at the Caffeine Addled Minds’ headquarters we’re preparing for the season of the spooks. That all important time of year where family and friends gather together to share memories, tell stories and be grateful none of us got bitten by a werewolf or vampire this year. (Vamparism and Werewolf-osis are serious, often life affecting illnesses that have been ignored by the wider medical community for too long!) So don’t forget to lock your doors, shut the windows, line the thresholds with salt and sing the Halloween-time warding carols.

We like so many other completely normal people out there will be gathering around our gnarled, seasonally appropriate Halloween tree (the best ones, are almost certainly possessed by the soul’s of the lumberjack’s who got killed felling them). Opening presents and avoiding eye contact with the shadowy figure of Sama-Claws, who, as you all know climbs down your chimney like a possessed spider with so many legs that regular spiders get freaked out at the sight. (Don’t worry for those of you who are unfamiliar, or more likely those who’ve repressed the image from last year, Sama-Claws brings their own chimney if you don’t already have one). Sama-Claws then tends to nest in a corner just out of your direct line of sight trying their best to draw your attention in, for one fatal look…

Now as we all know Halloween is often a trivialised holiday, some use it as an excuse to dress up in a fun costume, eat too many sweets and watch scary movies. (Unless you’re like me and choose not to do that last one because you like to sleep at night for the next week, instead of your mind assuming that whatever the monster/ creature/ other thing was, it IS indeed lurking and waiting to get you because that is just how it works when your mind prepares for sleep). It’s a time for us all to unwind, have a little fun and celebrate the fact that the ghosts and ghouls who come out to possess anyone caught outside in the woods on their own, when it would have been wiser to stay together in that cabin, will be gone by morning. As the song says: When the working day is done, oh Ghosts just want to have fun. (please don’t sue me Cyndi Lauper).

But on a more official note: Be on the look out for an announcement coming soon about our latest project. (it’s certainly not our most serious production we’ve ever attempted but I would be lying if I didn’t say it wasn’t some of the most fun I’ve ever had editing it). So be sure to check out the blog each month for updates as well as listen to new episodes of our shows as they upload.

Dude You Good? will also be releasing two, that’s right! Two Halloween themed episodes (one of which features an incredibly wise, handsome and modest member of the Caffeine Addled Minds if I do say so myself). So stay on the look out for those and more coming soon!

Oh and be sure to leave out the traditional Minced flies and curdled milk tributes for Sama-Claws.

Happy Halloween from all of us at Caffeine Addled Minds.

Jordan (Co-founder and creator of the Caffeine Addled Minds).