What Became of Subtlety?

Stinkfist icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 01 from the Ænima LP by Tool icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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Something has to change
This is an undeniable dilemma
Boredom is not a burden anyone should bear

Constant over-stimulation numbs me, but I would not want you any other way

It’s just not enough
I need more
Nothing seems to satisfy
I said, “I don’t want it
“I just need it
“To breathe, to feel, to know I’m alive”

Finger deep within the borderline
Show me that you love me and that we belong together
Relax, turn around and take my hand

I can help you change tired moments into pleasure
Say the word and we will be well upon our way

Blend and balance pain and comfort deep within you
Till you will not want me any other way

But It’s not enough
I need more
Nothing seems to satisfy
I said, “I don’t want it
“I just need it
“To breathe, to feel, to know I’m alive”

Knuckle deep inside the borderline
This may hurt a little but it’s something you’ll get used to
Relax, slip away

There is something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be
Desensitized to everything
What became of subtlety?

How can this mean anything to me if I really don’t feel anything at all?

I’ll keep digging till I feel something

Elbow deep inside the borderline
Show me that you love me and that we belong together

Shoulder deep within the borderline
Relax
Turn around and take my hand

Satan’s Snacky Cakes

What’s scarier? Locking eyes with ravenous werewolf feasting on freshly torn human flesh? Crossing paths with a wraith on a dark night at a lonely bridge? Awakening in your bed from the stirring of an unfamiliar phantasm? Or the current lineup of Hostess twinkies and cupcakes?

This Halloween, don’t call it quits after amassing your usual hoard of Twizzlers and stale candy corn—compliment your trove with a box or two of Chocolate Scream Twinkies. These are just like regular Twinkies, but they are filled with a sickeningly sweet brown mess inside.

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If over-processed cake products that look a little too much like Fluffy’s unattended sphincter aren’t your thing, consider the more conventional Hostess Scary Cakes. These are the standard diabetes-causing Hostess cup cakes with organ-damaging orange food dye mixed into the frosting to exude seasonal cheer.

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Do you prefer eating food that glows in the dark? Well, who doesn’t?! Fortunately, Hostess Glo Balls have you covered. These little treasures are made out of equal parts sugar, dye, bleached flour, and recycled glow sticks.

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One particularly neat trick with these Glo Balls is that if they are eaten fast enough and with minimal chewing, a person’s belly button will light up during the nighttime. Hostess claims that this is a good thing, as it provides yet another way for motorists to gauge their distance from careless children who are out trick-or-treating well after the sun sets.

Too much good stuff, right? But what are we supposed to do when all the Hostess Halloween fun is over? Are people going to be left to suffer a debilitating combination of sugar and processed-food withdrawals? Don’t worry… the Hostess-with-the-mostest has the solution: Deep-Fried Twinkies! Yes, that’s right, twinkies that have been submerged in boiling fat and oil. And what’s more, these little saccharine sludgies are available all year round!

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And really, how could they not be? There are just too many incredible things going on here for these to be relegated to seasonal distribution. Hostess even made a Double Chocolate variant for its customers with increasingly refined palates.

So it seems that Halloween these days is less about scary things and more about inventing extreme ways to activate a person’s sweet tooth. I guess it’s safe to say that the only thing scarier than a blood-thirsty demon is one with a weight problem, poorly-fitting trousers, and a glowing belly button.

Black Witch Bloodsucker

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