Our Second Secret Guest Awaits You In the Darkness
What are they about?
It is Friday. Welcome to a SECRET SOCIETY.
This week there is a SECRET GUEST waiting for you.
But first, here is some public information for my freethinking friends on the stairs.
HEY, BROOKLYN! Orchestra seats are GONE for our show at the Murmrr Opera House on November 7.
SO! We’re offering seats in the balcony at a secret new price, and you can CLICK TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT HERE.
HEY, WHOLE WORLD! Just because I am traveling around the country on the VAN FREAKS ROADSHOW doesn’t mean we have stopped doing the regular podcast.
This week especially you will be glad to know we are joined not only by but also the return of AIDAN, Emperor of The Dark Realm, aka THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT WIKI…
But also by PAUL F. TOMPKINS, who is, as you know, the very best.
On this EPISODE, we debate the pronunciation of Reese’s Pieces, what candy is trash candy, and whether 12 foot skeletons are cool, or just giant yard brags.
I’m going to type that name again, because I love it: PAUL F. TOMPKINS. And it would be a real mistake for you to not click on it and get tickets to his upcoming shows, including those in CHARLESTON, a very beautiful and spooky city!
I cannot overstate what Paul and his work mean to me, as well as his wife (and whole human being in her own right, Janie Haddad Tompkins.
If you read VACATIONLAND, you know how generous they have been to me, letting me stay in their house again and again, even after I sleep-walked into their bedroom that time.
Together they have a wonderful monthly podcast they make in that same, Hodgman-haunted house, and you should listen to it please. It’s called STAY F. HOMEKINS, and all the smart set in Austin are wearing their MERCH!
And as you may know, they also have an excellent substack of their own called WEEKEND WATER. And it’s the weekend RIGHT NOW.
That’s right, I’m encouraging you to walk out on your job right now and go to Weekend Water to see some old photos of me and Janie.
And then put on your SEXY JOHN HODGMAN costume and go and have a safe and scary Pre Hallow’s Eve.
But now it’s time for our SECRET GUEST.
This is a person I reach out to any time I am feeling glum, which is a fair amount these days, and you will enjoy hearing from them.
In our conversation, you will hear secrets such as…
-A personal detail about my life I have never revealed.
-Precise coordinates where you can find free Edison bulbs abandoned by me in Wisconsin.
-The perfect answer to an impossible question posed by a search engine.
Please ascend the stairs if you are ready to receive the mysteries…
