I’m still reeling a little from the responses I got yesterday – thank you all so much. It wasn’t my intention to beg for validation, but you guys delivered happy thoughts in truckloads and I appreciate it more than you know. So, thank you. Y’all rock. :)

And now for ghosts. ‘nee’s text message yesterday threatening me with a haunting if I stopped writing made me start thinking about haunted text messages. Then I realized it had already been done – as well as haunted videos, haunted cameras, haunted water tanks, haunted cars, haunted eyeballs, haunted computers, haunted cat boys, haunted newspapers, haunted convenience stores .. I could spend hours researching the mostly Asian theme of haunted stuff, but I have plans this weekend and I should probably also get some work done in the meantime.

They’re running out of things to haunt – the “vengeful ghost” genre is wildly popular, but at some point you’re going to run out of things that can be haunted and then used to torture attractive college students. What then? Well, that’s where I come in. Never one to let people in need go wanting, I give you the Delicious Juice Dot List of Things that Could Maybe Be Haunted in a Movie:

• Music! You could totally haunt a CD and then when you listen to it, ghosts crawl out your EARS and then bite your head off, leaving you unable to hear the very music that caused your death in the first place. SPOOKY!
• Blog posts! “Hey, I heard about this website that has a blog post that is SO BAD/AWESOME/FILLED WITH GRAMMATICAL ERRORS that if you read it, ghosts will crawl out your EYES and then force you to re-take rudimentary linguistics until you stop abusing the apostrophe”. SCARY!
• Pregnancy tests! You pee on a stick, and instead of seeing a positive or negative result, you see .. GHOSTS! Ghosts who want revenge because they were once held captive and made to pee on a stick over and over again until they died from dehydration and now they’re back and angry at YOU!
• Facebook! A comely young lad meets a girl at a party and spends the evening talking to her. When he gets home, he tries to add her as a friend on Facebook but he can’t seem to find her (even though she told him she was on there) – an Advanced Search brings up not her profile but a remembrance group made by her friends AFTER SHE DIED!
• Dustbusters! The film opens with a comely lass in her kitchen pouring herself a bowl of cereal. Out of nowhere, a cat jumps on her counter and startles her because a) she doesn’t own a cat and b) she doesn’t own a counter. In her surprise, she spilled her cereal so she goes to her closet and pulls out a Dustbuster to clean up the mess. Instead of busting her dust though, chunks of BLOOD AND FLESH start spilling out all over her floor and cereal! Reeling back in horror, she’s terrified to note that the strange cat has now turned into SOME SORT OF HIDEOUS BEAST who pounces on her and EATS HER HEART FOR SOME REASON!
• Video games! Oh wait, they already did this one. Okay – what about a horror movie about an online game so insidious that you can’t stop playing it, eventually losing your job and friends and spouse and health and at the very end of the game (which is a plot twist because THE GAME DOESN’T END) you realize that you’ve been dead for months but no one noticed you died because all your friends left you ages ago and you’re doomed to an eternity of your level 69 half elf night orc never ever being able to attain that final ding!

Seriously, Hollywood. I have hundreds of excellent ideas. Call me, we’ll talk.