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With Halloween season rapidly approaching, theme parks will often go to great lengths to spread the word about their special events. In promotion of Howl-O-Scream 2010, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay today delivered a severed finger to my door, enclosed in a jar, and wrapped and skewered by a guitar string:
(Those are my guitars in the background - except the pink one. That one’s my wife’s.)
Packaged with it was a sticker for myXrocks.com, the address that forwards to the official web site for this year’s Howl-O-Scream event.
It’s been revealed that the theme of this year’s Halloween time event is to surround a rock band called My X, fronted by a girl named Sylvie. Apparently My X will be playing concerts throughout each night of Howl-O-Scream. But how the relatively ordinary rock band will turn extraordinarily evil still remains to be seen. Given that I had a severed finger arrive at my house today, I suspect many more sinister things to come from Sylvie and the gang.
Update: Looks like the finger came from one of Sylvie’s ex-boyfriends. She says “revenge rocks” in the new Howl-O-Scream 2010 tv commercial:
I wouldn’t want to break up with her.
My idea for how she went insane is that she’s been broken up with a lot and then one day she got broke up with one to many times and went insane, wanting to kill every man she sees for being so cruel. That’s the best idea I have so far. I haven’t thought of a reason to kill girls.