pumpktoberfest #13 - so board.

pumpktoberfest #13 - so board.
film: witchboard
beer: st. ambroise pumpkin ale



as a thirteen year-old boy, when i first laid eyes on tawny kitaen in whitesnake's 1987 video for "here i go again," i was hooked. she had big rocker hair & rolled around on the hoods of cars to the sounds of metal guitars & wore a white see-thru dress. you could totally see her underpants! at that age, she was totally my kind of chick. i didn't see her performance in bachelor party until some time in the 90s, but in 1986, she'd starred in a movie called witchboard, which i came across soon after first seeing the whitesnake video. cable tv was sort of a new thing in our house & my dad had started taping movies off of showtime. when he wasn't paying attention, i'd scan through them. that's when i came across witchboard. i fell in love with it & it TOTALLY had nothing to do with the fact that there's a scene in it that represented the first time i ever saw a specific part of the female anatomy...courtesy of tawny kitaen.

in the film, she plays a woman who becomes terrorized & eventually possessed by a ouija board because she keeps using it alone. obviously, the spirit terrorizing & possessing her (this dude named "malfeitor") is evil, so people start dying in hilarious 80s horror ways. there's a sweet impaling, a dude who gets crushed when something falls on him, all that good stuff. if you head over to youtube, there's a short montage of scenes from the film, perfect for some quick guffaws. overall though, it's a pretty spooky film. to this day i'm not so cool with using ouija boards. based on my recent dating record, i'm just as frightened of the other things i saw in the movie as well.

lucky spooky 13! our thirteenth beer of the pumpktoberfest season is the st. ambroise pumpkin ale, from our good friends north of the border in montreal. i found it late one eve/early one morn at a bodega about some twenty blocks down fifth ave from my apartment. on my evening rides home, i've been hopping off the train quite often & treating myself to the healthy/gourmet wonders they have there, from local macro vegetarian dumplings to fresh fruit to amy's teriyaki wraps to vosges chocolate bars. they also have a pretty good beer selection & on one of my pumpkin beer excursions, i came across this one completely out of the blue. with every other beer i've tried this pumpktoberfest season, i'd read about it online & was keeping an eye out for them. with this one, i was all "a canadian pumpkin beer? well i've never!"

it's actually not that bad. it's a light, smooth, orange-colored ale with a prominent cinnamon taste & smell and a light pumpkin flavor. for some reason, even though i've been beaten over the head with a number of pumpkin beer spice explosions for most of the month, i enjoyed the wealth of cinnamon in the flavor. the bottle smells like a scented candle! i give it a sept point trois! tres bien! & with that, only three more beers to go!...& my top three horror films! it's going to be a pumpktoberfestastic finish to the month! stay tuned!