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Shiver Me Timbers

Several hundred of Austin's spookiest scenesters crowded into the American Legion Hall on Veterans Boulevard, done up in the whimsical style of Edward Gorey, Monday night for the annual White Ghost Shivers Halloween ball. The old-timey acoustic hosts pulled double duty, first playing along to Buster Keaton's 1922 farce Cops, then ringing in Dia de los Muertos with a rollicking midnight set of cuts from their new Chicken Ranch disc Live on the Radio and speakeasy standards like "Cocaine Done Killed My Baby Dead." In between, the corpse brides, she-devils, and sumo wrestlers got down to M.I.A. and Michael Jackson, but the evening ended on a sour note when the Shivers' projector (which they had borrowed from a friend) and DVD/VCR combo (with Carnival of Souls still inside) were stolen. For the third time, what the #$@! is wrong with you people?