HELLO HUMAN FRIENDS!!

TONIGHT is my favorite night of the Halloween Season as we, your troubled friends at IBW, bring you the 4TH ANNUAL DOG (and cat) COSTUME CONTEST!!

Come get your pet's photo taken and we'll even let you get in there as well if you like. If you participate, you get 10% off your tab for the evening and you might even win one of our AMAZING prizes.

This year we'll have IBW Gift Cards and a FREE Dog Training class from CANINE THERAPY CORPS. If you don't recall, what we do is post the photos the next day on IG and Creepbook and we let you THE PEOPLE vote. For once in this god-forsaken world your voice might be heard. Vote early, vote often and make sure the most adorable dog (or cat or iguana) wins... AGAIN!

And, because Thursday's historically have followed Wednesdays, it's also FRANKENSTEIN THURSDAY here at IBW Lodge #1!

Build your 1L stein of either TRUST or ORANGE SUNSHINE (D&P is out and I don't feel like fixing the graphic). For $10 you can drink the stein, but for a measly $20 you can take this fancy IBW stein home with you. GOOD LORD, that's a mighty fine deal. (If you're nice and you ask and you shovel out the cash, we'll give you a 1L of Ecto-Slushy for $30. But we're only doing the $30 deal on that.)

So, come on down tonight and haunt America's Next Best Chef, IBW Lodge #1. The cruel and viscious MOLLY will be behind the bar and yours truly will be snapping the animal photography while simultaneously wanting to go home! Don't tell me I can't multi-task.

FRIDAY NIGHT we've got the last showing of HAPPY LOBSTER FOOD TRUCK for the season. You know the drill, come get a delicious HOT N' BUTTERED LOBSTER ROLL while you shovel absurd (yet RESPONSIBLE) amounts of fresh beer into that gaping hole in your face that keeps getting you into trouble. But think about it, if your mouth is full of beer, you can't say anything too stupid that you'll regret later. See? This is living and these are important lessons for YOU to learn (and you know who I'm talking to, don't you?).

AND THEN...

It's all right there with a couple few extra surprises added on. CHUCK'S WOOD-FIRED PIZZA will be back serving their delicious pizzas. They even bring out a cool wood pizza oven on a trailer that is a fun little spectacle in and of itself.

Also, our friends from TEETSY will be on site doing LIVE SILK-SCREENING.

Bring a t-shirt or hoodie or cattle prod and have them silkscreened with a very Limited Edition IBW Halloween 2024 shirt or buy a shirt from TEETSY and save yourself the hassle of finding a blank in your closet.

Also... we're still doing the MENSTRUATIN' WITH SATAN drive for our friends at the SATANIC TEMPLE OF ILLINOIS. Each year around Halloween they collect feminine hygiene products and distribute them to shelters down in Pilsen. Since I've done a lousy job of promoting this and you've done a lousy job of supporting it this year, I'm doing a last-minute incentive to get you all helping your friends and neighbors in need.

If you read that, I bet you read it correctly: for each new and unopened feminine hygiene product you bring from today until Saturday night, you get 1 raffle ticket. At our Halloween party on Saturday we'll announce 2 winners who will go home wearing a pair these stylish and comfy period panties from the lovely minds of HAIRBRAINED.

Now, if you aren't feeling lucky, you can just buy a pair from our crummy webstore for $15 ($5 from each pair goes to TST's Menstruatin' with Satan drive), but why not roll the bones a bit? Bring us tampons and get a chance to win for every box you bring. You can also bring toothpaste, toothbrushes and other items that I'm unsure how they are used as feminine products, but mine is not a job of inquiry here - nor science! - so I trust that they are, somehow, helpful.

But please PLEASE PLESAE PLEASE help out your friends in need. Give some dignity back to a fellow human who is in a really rough place that you will hopefully never be forced to experience. You can do it, make someone's life better!

OH! Also... on SUNDAY OCTOBER 27TH we've got... wait for it... BEETLEJUICE THEMED TEAM TRIVIA. Oh boy, that's gonna be fun on a bun.

And, prior to the Beetlejuice Trivia, we've got a BOOZY BOOK FAIR!

October is truly the greatest month of the year.

Hopefully we'll see some of you beautiful people and your incredible 4-legged friends tonight!