Promotional Video

Those of you who check out my main blog, "Random Acts of Geekery," probably saw the first version of this video a few days ago... since then, with this separate blog starting up to coordinate things, I've made a slight revision to the end of it to point people here.

Now, you'll notice if you watch it that I've got a logo calling it the "Halloween Countdown," instead of "Countdown to Halloween." That's because I started working on this back in June or July, and didn't know the "official" title at that time... and I kind of dig the logo I came up with. Of course, it doesn't really matter what you call it, so long as it counts down to Halloween, right?

Anyone who wants to post this video to their own participating blog, feel free to do so! And I promise, next year, if I decide to do a new promo video, I'll check with Shawn and John first to see if they've got any logos planned!

Halloween Countdown Calendar

When asked about the Halloween Countdown one of the ways I typically describe it is as something of an Advent Calendar for Halloween.

With that in mind I thought this would be of great interest to people visiting here. Inky-Dinky has produced a physical Halloween Countdown calendar, with great, creepy, artwork by John Littleboy. As you open the number for each day you will discover behind it, a story about one of the macabre cast you see before you. You can order a copy here . Make sure you tell them where you found out about it.

Just a quick note on spreading the word...

Hello again to all of you creepoholic constituents out there. I thought I'd take a second to address some of the shocking options for those of you who would like to spread the good word about the Countdown to Halloween. Again, the idea behind this site is to simply act as a resource for the growing number of blogs participating in the seasonal fun of writing about all the frightening facets of this wicked holiday.

If you'd like to feature a button/badge on your site...

Banner #1 (200 pixels wide)



Copy and paste the following html onto your site:

<br /><a href="http://www.countdowntohalloween.com/"><img border="0" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2543/3915647547_7a27ffac5f.jpg" /></a><br />

Banner #2 (200 pixels wide)



Copy and paste the following html onto your site:

<br /><a href="http://www.countdowntohalloween.com/"><img border="0" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3915647623_9ffcf89083.jpg" /></a><br />

Pierre Fournier of the wonderful Frankensteinia also created a third, more Halloween-centric banner on a black background for anyone who'd like to use it.

Banner #3 (200 pixels wide)



Copy and paste the following html onto your site:

<br /><a href="http://www.countdowntohalloween.com/"><img border="0" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/3922726624_bff7472fb6.jpg" /></a><br />

Or if you'd like a slightly smaller version for three column template blogs: Banner #3 (170 pixels wide)



Copy and paste the following html onto your site:

<br /><a href="http://www.countdowntohalloween.com/"><img border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3504/3922726568_2fc6b73888.jpg" /></a><br />

Also you can follow the Countdown to Halloween on Twitter via the halloween_blogs account.

As John mentioned in the last post, the list is being compiled and will appear here on October 1st. I can't wait for the festivities to begin!