Nasmyth made a 44-ft. wide hat and 22-ft. high cowboy boots, for the appropriately named Hat n' Boots station opened. According to the city of Seattle's Web site, it was the busiest station in the state for a spell, and supposedly Elvis even stopped by in 1962, when he was in town for the World's Fair.
However, when Interstate 5 came through, traffic around Hat n' Boots dwindled and in the late 1980s, it closed. But residents rallied to save the artwork, and it was moved to the park.
STORYTELLER: Yesterday morning I found CJ sitting at his computer, writing. I asked him what he was working on, and he said it was a "creepy pasta."
Intrigued, I asked what that was, of course. He said it originated with the term 'copypasta,' which is a block of text that gets copied and pasted repeatedly on Internet discussion forums and social networking sites. A creepypasta, however, is a short horror story subgenre of copypasta. Most creepypasta stories are supposed to scare readers, but some are a bait-and-switch means of trolling someone.
That explanation out of the way, here's CJ's copypasta ...
This started when I moved to my current neighborhood. As soon as I moved over, I realized that I might as well check out the new neighborhood and see what was going on there. I went over to meet my next-door neighbor, who had a quite old-looking house.
When I saw that he had a garage sale, I went over there to see what he was selling.Most of the things the old man was selling were old knick-knacks and creepy marionettes, but one thing that caught my attention was a DVD case with transparent plastic. The DVD inside it had no design on it, but "MY LITTLE PONY" was written in marker on the DVD. I asked the old man how much it was, and he told me I could have it for free if I wanted to.
So, I bought the DVD, and proceeded to bring it home. When I loaded the DVD into my DVD player, I immediately knew something was wrong. Instead of getting a nice, friendly startup screen that shows you which episode you want to select, there was an image of a Zalgo-style Pinkie Pie, accompanied by "S3L3CT Y0UЯ FдT3" in place of the massage that would tell you to choose the episode that you wanted to view.
I decided to choose the first episode on the DVD, Party of One, where Pinkie Pie starts thinking that her friends don't like her anymore. For about half of the episode, it acted normal, until it came to the point where Pinkie starts thinking that her friends don't like her anymore. As though she was breaking the fourth wall, every once in a while she would make cryptic and threatening comments, targeted at seemingly nobody.
Near the end of the episode where her friends threw a surprise party to show her that they still like her, instead of her cheering up like she would regularly in the episode, the camera zoomed out of the barn, where you could hear sounds of chopping, cries for help, and screaming, like you would if somebody was being fatally attacked.
It didn't show the inside of the barn again, but it did show a blood-covered Pinkie Pie running away from the from the barn, which had broken windows. The episode blacked out after that, and the only thing I could see on the television was an image of once again, a Zalgo-style Pinkie Pie, with blood drooling from her eyes. I was too afraid to watch any more of this DVD right now, thinking "Is this some sort of sick joke!?!?!?!? Is my DVD haunted!?!?!?!?!??!" I immediately put the DVD back in it's transparent case, and drove back to the old man's house.
I asked the old man "WHAT THE DEVIL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING SELLING THIS SORT OF DIGITAL NIGHTMARE!?!?" The old man looked confused, saying it's just a DVD containing ponies. I proceeded to ask him if he even knew what was actually on the disk, and he said he didn't. I gave him a summary of what happened while I viewed it, and he seemed confused.I figured the next best thing to do would be to call Hasbro, the people who own the rights to the series, and I told them everything that happened. The next day, a Hasbro employee came to my house, and once he had watched the version of A Party of One, even he seemed terrified. I asked him if he knew anything that I didn't, and he was confused, and had to leave.
The next day, it said there was a similar real-life accident at broNYcon, which had a similar incident to the one that happened in the barn in my haunted episode. I had had far enough of this haunted DVD now, and I destroyed it with my hammer in the attic.
There you have it, the story of my haunted MLP DVD.PUNKIN PONY: Bee has had pumpkins on the brain, too. She's been drawing up a storm. Today one of her creations was a Halloween inspired My Little Pony character, whom she named Jackie Lantern. :)
FLY BY: This evening we ran up top to watch an ISS flyover from our roofdeck. It was a nice, long, bright one. As it disappeared over Queen Anne hill, Christian noticed something was trailing the ISS.
"That must be Cygnus!" I said.
Early this morning (4:31 our time), Orbital Science's Cygnus cargo craft was detached from the ISS. (It's on the left in this photo.)
Image Credit: NASA/Karen Nyberg
Per a NASA press release in my inbox today, it's headed for a "destructive re-entry in Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, Oct. 23." Guess it's a good thing we saw it when we did. By tomorrow, it's toast!
Wonder why they didn't design a reusable, splashdown or landing model, like SpaceX's Dragon. ...
PINK NIGHTMARE: The bad ball gown for the good witch costume continues. I spent another couple of hours on it today. You may never see a photo of it.
Scary story! And a cute Pony name. I suggest spelling it "Jacquie" :-0.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad took us to Hat and Boots early in its life to buy gas.