walking around
on halloween night
cold
with a bit of snow flying
coming upon
a briliant idea
a very large pumpkin
transformed into a driveway bonfire
trick or treaters
chilled to the bone
gathered ’round
like moths to the flame.
—
“fire is our first form of technology.”
-ridley scott
when i woke up on halloween morning
and finally, finally, i am a pinata
even cocoa the sweet dog joined in the fun
no candy in here
but luckily my kind colleagues
were the candy to my pinata.
“i feel like a human pinata. the disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.”
-katie couric
happy halloween!
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“clothes make a statement. costumes tell a story.”
— mason cooley
this is not me, but we both have eaten our fill (and then some), of candy
before giving what’s left of it to halloween trick-or-treaters tomorrow night.
—
“every time i avoid eating halloween candy, i reward myself by eating halloween candy.”
-author unknown
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art credit: ‘Maltesers’ by Alison Friend
full october moon tonight, and something’s different
—
“when witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near halloween.”
— author unknown
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art credit: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, The Witch on her Broomstick
Illustration from The Enchanted Forest – 1921
one more week until the candy rains down!
—
“i want to get a vending machine, with fun-sized candy bars,
and the glass in front is a magnifying glass.
you’ll be mad but it will be too late.”
-mitch hedberg
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image credit: etsy vintage
i loved wearing the costumes of my childhood era
and happily ‘suffered for my art.’
recent neighborhood nextdoor comments on the halloween costumes are wonderful:
They were so ugly but if you made your own costume, it wasn’t cool. We had to buy these things…jumpsuit tore easily, and elastic snapped off mask. And the sweat…and trying to breathe through the tiny mouth hole!
Those masks were so HOT! Didn’t hold us back tho! Was so safe then and went out by ourselves.
You couldn’t see out of them, sometimes the parts that touched your face were sharp, the elastic that held it on got tangled in hair. It is a wonder we survived Halloween in these masks!
then the elastic broke so your mom tied it and was even tighter and hotter!
and tangled it whatever hair was still left!
I’m surprised there weren’t thunderstorms inside the mask with all the condensation from breathing too. My favorite was my Hot Stuff costume. I still have a picture of me in it!
I totally had one of these costume with the mask…but this…this looks like a Pink Floyd video.
It was miserable wearing those masks, but we didn’t care, we wanted that candy !!
Looking back at those costumes, they were actually a little creepy!!
How about the little tiny slit near the mouth so that you could attempt to get air? Your parents couldn’t understand why you had to take it off before you went up the steps of the next house. Your face would be drenched with sweat but you would wipe it off and keep going.
Made of suffocating plastic but we loved them anyway.
happy halloween!
—
“when you’re wearing an animal costume and something bad happens,
your facial expression doesn’t change. the animal is deadpan the whole time.
if you’re skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion.
it’s just a stoic gorilla wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”
-dimitiri martin
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photo credit: vintage pinterest
my daughter’s two black cats
who i collectively call ‘the nathans’
waited until her halloween display was up
deciding to become the stars
sitting centerstage in the tableau.
—
“in a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.”
-joseph wood krutch
at the haunted house
while waiting to enter
the performances began
fire dancers
monsters
pumpkin head
evil clowns
lasers, smoke
even a bad dj – (‘diablo -international dj’)
like being caught up
in a campy carnie rave party
and then
we went in
for a long stretch of terror
adrenaline pumping
my startle response at full tilt
a creepy clown jumped out of the dark near me
my reflex reaction was a quick punch to its face
(the clown bent over in pain, and i felt so bad i hugged it!)
the man behind me said
‘i thank you for that, now i feel safe’
we continued on
through a creepy water illusion room with an uneven floor
a tight fabric tunnel we had to push our way through
spider webs sticking to our faces
monsters crawling on the floor
mirrors, doors, ramps, screaming, darkness, banging, running
quite a wild ride
but we made it out intact
and my heart is beginning to calm a bit.
“where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
-sir arthur conan doyle
remember when
you heard all those scary stories in the dark?
where you looked in your rearview mirror and saw
the man with the hook/claw/bones in your backseat?
think maybe i should wave this driver over to warn him?
—
“the thing I hate most about skeletons is you can never tell when they’re smiling.”
-stephen blackmoore, american author
I didn't have my glasses on.... 