Campaign Chronicles

"Better Off Dead" is one of My All-Time Favorite Movies. Seriously. I have even written about it before . But first, a short clip... You never see that thing again in the movie. Where did it go? What happened to it? No "official" answer has ever been given regarding the fate of Jenny Meyer's Raisin Mold. Given the seeming propensity for strange happenings in Greendale, I propose the following: After slithering off of the table, the Raisin Mold made its way through the dining room and kitchen, then out to the attached garage. Windows broken by the newspaper delivery boy provided a means of egress and then it was loose in the wilds surrounding the bodaciously small town of Greendale. It had only been alive for a few minutes but It Was FREE. It was ready to find out what the world had to offer. It stayed in the shadows not wanting to subject is translucent flesh to the full strength of the Sun. Small insects would fly over to investig...

Implacable…                 Relentless…                                 Unstoppable… He is… Johnny the Paperboy! “Four weeks, twenty papers, that’s two dollars.   Plus tip.” - Johnny Gasparini This morning, while listening to a review of the Archie Comics horror series on YouTube I got to thinking about the movie “ Better Off Dead ”.   More specifically, I got to thinking about one of the secondary antagonists of the movie – no, not the race-car brothers or Ricky .   No, I got to thinking about Johnny the Paperboy.   For a twelve year old kid, Johnny is incredibly tough – he’s like the T-800 series of Paperboys.   He is shown plunging off of a cliff for about 8½ seconds of screen time near the end of the film. ...