…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.
Tag: halloween
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.
Poem: “Halloween, 2016.”
From my point of view, Halloween Season starts tomorrow.
Question: should I shade my creative content accordingly? There’s gonna be a bit more anyway, given that Halloween is a fun holiday for me. But I do not know whether a steady diet of more spooky stuff is going to still be well-received on, say, October 23rd. Thoughts?
Unhappy Bizarro Hallowene!
This is why we have the Internet, honestly. Because you didn’t know that today was Bizarro Halloween. And yet, somehow, knowing this – and that it’s celebrated with Mickey Mantle masks – makes things just a little bit better.
Today is #Halloween in#BizarroWorld, when scary Mickey Mantle masks are worn. "Us love ugliness!" pic.twitter.com/BRab8d5eyM
— Mark Pahlow (@mcpheeceo) May 24, 2016
A public service announcement on Halloween-themed campaign emails.
Don’t send them out. There are, maybe, three or four political jokes that you can make about Halloween; and for sheer, creeping terror nothing quite matches the sight of an Inbox full of tedious variants of them. Yes, the Other Side is Scary. Thank you. We get the point. Dear God, but we get the point.
And no pumpkin emojis!
And get off my lawn!
Holiday Posting Rules are in effect.
Because it’s Halloween, and there’s a full day of activities slotted already. Pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, holding out on devouring the candy, cider drinking… you know how it goes. I post as I post.