Ponchoguy, Halloween Horror Nights, and What in the world??

[9:30p]

Another quick entry before I go to the gym...

I. Ponchoguy

Two days ago, I posted an entry about my friend George and his new blog Kinda Greek Philosophy. After George started up his blog, Justin and I joked that the only person left to start one up is another friend of ours, Tom.

Lo and behold, Mr. Poncho Man himself has started up a blog of his own! He of course had some help from yours truly, but he's definitely off to a good start. Check out his blog "Tom: Fact or Fiction" at www.tfof.blogspot.com.

Welcome to the club, Tom!


II. Halloween Horror Nights

The last several years, it has been a Halloween tradition for my friends and I to go to some type of "Haunt" event. These events normally take place at a theme park. In 2005 and 2004 we went to Knott's Berry Farm's Halloween Haunt. The years before that, Magic Mountain was the park we visited for their yearly Fright Fest.

Typically, the parks are filled with fog as the sun disappears. People dressed to look like monsters and creeps roam the walkways and stalk guests. There are normally several themed Haunted Mazes that are filled with monsters in the darkness.

Getting scared is a lot of fun.

Anyway, this year, we're going somewhere different. This October, Universal Studios: Hollywood is bringing back their rendition of a Haunt event in the form of Universal's Halloween Horror Nights (HHN).

Universal Studios: Hollywood started HHN back in the early 90's, but because US:H really is an actual studio, they had to pay the "scare-actors" actual union wages, which got to be quite pricy. That on top of not enough customers coming in because of the lack of advertisement, US:H really suffered some losses and only went to do the event 3 or 4 more times sporradically until it's last year in 2001. Five years later, they're bringing it back with a new twist.

HHN 2006 will turn their backlot tour into an attraction where guests actually get off the tram to walk around the infamous Universal sets. However, there's nothing normal about these sets. Masked murderers with chainsaws terrorize the Bates Motel. Evil Clowns wreak havok on the Whoville Set of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Reanimated corpses roam free in the Plane Crash Set from the movie War of the Worlds.

In addition to the "Terror Tram" attraction, Universal will be putting out two different Haunted Mazes. One themed to an old asylum where chaos has descended and the other maze where popular Universal monsters, villains, and killers stalk about.

Needless to say, I'm pretty excited for the event and I think it's going to be one to remember. Oh and if you buy your tickets online, you can save up to $15 on the price of admission.


III. What in the World??

...is a blog that Justin and I started a year and a half ago, but never really went anywhere with it. With the addition of George and Tom to the blogging community, we thought we'd bring it back. The four of us will be updating it with random crap that no one will probably care about, but have a looksies when you're bored. There's bound to be something amusing on it.

See it at www.BiggBucks.blogspot.com (named after an over-used phrase our driver instructor said many many times when Justin and I were going to ZeeBee to get our permits.)

[10:18p]

Eckh... it kinda fell apart at the end there, but I need to get some gas in the tank (food) before heading out to the gym.

Seeya.
Cy