By Andrea Menzies
I am going out of town to be social on Christmas and New Year’s and hear bands. I am also completely single, and hopefully will meet someone to date. I do plan to move away. I tried going out in Virginia many times years ago, and just because I was making the best of a bad situation does NOT mean it wasn’t horrible, agonizing, and a bad situation.
My new video game avatar.
By Andrea Menzies
They also had many types of music nights from rock to rave there. I went to many shows at it. Music places open and close every 2 seconds in New Orleans. Trying to pretend there is one club that plays wild music in New Orleans is like trying to say one tree in the forest has leaves on it. NOLA.com just reported The Goat club has closed in New Orleans. I used to love to visit school friends that lived at that place.
The Goat, a New Orleans neighborhood Goth bar and music venue, has closed.
Owner Matthew Checki announced recently on social media that he had sold the bar at 1301 St. Bernard Avenue. Tuesday was its final night as the Goat
“For nearly a decade, I have had the privilege of owning and operating my own bar in New Orleans,” Checki wrote. “The experience was immense to say the least. Through every single moment of success and challenge alike I truly loved it. Now it is time for new adventures in life both professionally and personally.”
Checki opened The Goat in 2017. The studded chains, horned skull and bat painted on the Goat’s otherwise plain gray exterior only hinted at the venue’s dramatic interior décor. A tangle of cobwebs on the ceiling concealed an assortment of skeletons suspended above a chandelier. A pentagram decorated the stage floor.
The Goat featured punk, metal and other underground bands as well as deejays. For the recurring “Attrition” night, DJs such as Evil Rudy and Sneauxball cranked Goth, industrial and synth music. The Goat also hosted such recurring “rituals” as “Dark Electric,” “Splatterday Night” and “Sacrifice: The Fetish Party.”
“Eclectic in focus but united in darkness, our Rituals constitute a central component to the musical and aesthetic identity of The Goat,” said a post on The Goat’s web site. “Come worship.”
The cover photo of New Orleans surf/punk rock band the Unnaturals’ 2024 album “Sleazy Listening” was taken at the bar of the Goat.
Beyond the music, the Goat served as a gathering place and de facto clubhouse for the New Orleans Goth community.
“There are too many bands to list but thank you so much to all the incredible acts that rocked our stage,” Checki wrote. “Thank you so much to everyone who came over the years in support of our events.
“The accomplishments of the experience that was The Goat were gauged by the talent and clientele we shared our nights with. I think it’s safe to say that makes it a successful story…
“It was the experience of a lifetime.”
By Andrea Menzies
Dear Internet my location is not real. It has literally NEVER been real on social media or the Internet for years. It is my sad misfortune that when trying Internet dating years ago men tried to drug me, strangle me, punch me, and their female friends tried to help them. I don’t want to give abusers a guide book to my front door. I sometimes visit school friends and family in other towns and check in to crowded and well lit dinner, dancing, or theater locations. This does not mean I live there. There are a million app location spoofing programs on the Internet like BlueStacks. I mentioned what online school I was going to, and had to transfer out of that school after making 2 grades of “A” partially due to hackers attacking my student account. I mentioned the name of my online school on social media which I will NEVER do again. One of the reasons cops need a search warrant to enter homes is Americans have the constitutional right to privacy. It is against the law to invade a female’s privacy, and all the information people think they are getting may be very wrong and NOT real. Forcing women into marriage with abusive men is not a good goal at all. I am trying to keep in touch with a few student friends when I post things not jerks. Google the phrase “location spoofing” and BlueStacks is the leader in emulator tech. These apps have become popular as human garbage tries to track women online.
*Special note I now have “Moon, South Dakota” listed as my home. I have never been there and DON’T plan to go, but I am showing off how stupid and pathetic people that believe everything they read on the Internet are daily. Now when people ask my address I can say it is on “The Moon” to see what level of idiots they are. I got 4 letters from the government claiming I need to update my address as I have moved this month, but I am living and working in the same place.
It is easy to get a false impression from the Internet.
By Andrea Menzies
I got a new CD from Amazon for the Halloween party at my mom’s house.
By Andrea Menzies
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Rocky Horror Picture Show being played on Halloween. Fun fact, when I lived in New Orleans I was both Columbia and Magenta in two different productions of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Loyola University New Orleans and the Prytania theater near campus. They wanted me to do more shows, but I was a university student with oceans of homework so I lacked the free time for that activity. I will always love how many fun friends I met doing a fun and campy Halloween show with many school friends. Fortunately there are a few places near my mom’s house in Virginia showing the Rocky Horror, and so I can still go there a bit. My review is it is a great show at any venue.
By Andrea Menzies
My daughter and I painted Halloween pumpkins this week. I was teaching at schools doing pumpkin crafts, and it reminded me it was time to do our own. My pumpkin has the pointy eyes on the right. We like to use paint and markers as it takes longer to spoil.
By Andrea Menzies
My new Halloween plan is to do the time warp again with plenty of meatloaf and curry. I was going to DC, but troops everywhere made me cancel the tickets. My new favorite activity is going to Maryland where I went to some amazing October dance nights. I was going to go back for Halloween weekend. However, it is murder destruction to my car, and so I am going to take trains and buses to get back to Maryland in mid November when I can get discount tickets.
Halloween with meatloaf.
Me with a giant pumpkin Hello Kitty at Maryland dance party nights.
By Andrea Menzies
The Death Star ballroom joke is making the rounds on the Internet. Behold the fully functional Death Star ballroom! I live near the DC area, and had Halloween tickets in the downtown district I had to refund due to the horrible political melodrama and troops everywhere. It is hard enough to be single, and to rebuild my social life after a bad breakup without riots in the streets.
By Andrea Menzies
Halloween is great for dancing parties for people of all ages. I am dusting off my dance trophies I won from dance school competitions when I was a teenager in anticipation of fun Halloween dancing.
Dancing helped me escape stress enough to graduate high school on the honors program, and to graduate University. I am happy a dancing part of the year has hit again.
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