I like doing poems about this time of year.
Tag: halloween
Tweet of the Day, Jamie Lee Curtis Returns To The Halloween Series edition.
So they’re making another Halloween movie. Yes, Jamie Lee Curtis’s character died onscreen in the 2002 movie in this series. And apparently they’re just going to ignore everything that happened after Halloween 2 and go on from there.
Which isn’t what of interest to me. And what is? Well, I’m gonna be honest, here. The phrase ‘won the genetic lottery’ comes to mind:
"Same porch. Same clothes. Same issues. 40 years later. Headed back to Haddonfield one last time for Halloween. Release date 10/19/18." pic.twitter.com/IvptiZctyw
— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) September 15, 2017
September Showcase, September 4th.
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“Halloween, 2016” (revised).
I went back and revised/fixed a couple of lines in the original. Basically, I was too in love with the idea of using the word ‘Halloween’ in the body of the text, when it was right there in the title and the acrostic. Moral of the story: kill your darlings.
We ended Halloween with my eldest outside…
…giving out candy, and periodically howling at the moon. So, basically: it was a good Halloween. Even the fog machine worked on the first try, although it turned out to be a fairly pathetic fog machine. Next year we’ll go with dry ice, I think.
Annnnnd it’s sundown on Halloween.
Time for the kids to go out, and the kids to arrive. It’s just the right temperature for trick-or-treating, ghosting through the neighborhood… and adding just a tot of whiskey to your coffee as you contemplate the gathering, friendly dusk. Mom gets to take the kids out, Dad gets to hand out the candy, the kids get more into this every year.
It’s all good.
Happy Halloween!
Meatball Stroganoff in the slow cooker, pot roast in the oven. Gotta get the pumpkins out and the Giant Double-Boiler Pot of Candy; the kids are home, but they shouldn’t be in their costumes for at least another four, five hours. And the downstairs could use some cleaning. I’ll let my wife worry about the fog machine, which she finally convinced herself she deserved after all*.
But first, another cup of coffee.
Moe Lane
*Don’t look at me: I’m not about to tell my wife she doesn’t deserve a fog machine. Of course she deserves a fog machine. I mean, really.
Jeez, The Secret World Halloween event gets more delayed every year.
The latest one isn’t even up yet (it’s going to load tomorrow). I mention this largely because, once The Secret World Samhain event is up, I intend to play the heck out of it. This is always the big event for this particular MMO: I have no intention of missing it. So if posting gets erratic until after Halloween, that’s a big reason why…
Looking for some good spooky movies for my kids.
This is maybe the first year that both kids are really grooving on the subject of Halloween: the eldest wanted to make sure that he was in on decorating the lawn and the youngest actually expressed an opinion on his costume. So, of course, it’s time to get them properly indoctrinated and so forth. They are both below the age of ten, I’m looking more for spooky than scary, and of course I’m going to show them The Nightmare Before Christmas as soon as my wife and I decide that they can handle it. The very question! What’s the point of Halloween if I can’t show them Tim Burton’s best movie ever? Continue reading Looking for some good spooky movies for my kids.