We always did the round of relatives' houses, not having a neighborhood to speak of.

That may be why I don't have the deep-seated Halloween-love.

It's not the ringing the doorbells that the light, or lack there of, makes the difference. It's walking down streets in dark costumes with possible visibilty issues due to masks and kids being in a rush to get from house to house so they can hit as many as possible before the hours are officially over. I went out to pick up the final pieces of my costume during trick or treating Saturday and had a couple kids run right out across the road at an intersection where I had no stop sign, but thankfully I was intentionally driving slowly and saw them in plenty of time to stop.

My BFF's kid is afflicted with the [family name] Head. They all have ENORMOUS heads, as in she can't wear a baseball cap. the kid was born with a hole in his intestine (he's fine now), and was once measured 40th percentile for weight and 97th percentile for head size. Why do I bring this up? Because they dressed him as a pumpkin for Halloween, but he had no stem, because the cap wouldn't fit on his head.

is it time for my 'child molestors didn't spring into existance a week ago' rant?

glow tape on some costumes. little kids needed escorts. big kids knew how to cross streets.

I grew up in a housing complex that was really good for trick-or-treating. Although you'd always get those creepy people who got really into Halloween and would dress up in devil costumes and have creepy lighting and music playing, and they'd be all "Mwahahahaa" at you. Man, I hated those houses, but you couldn't skip them, because they just sat there with the door open, waiting for the trick-or-treaters and it would be rude.

glow tape on some costumes. little kids needed escorts. big kids knew how to cross streets.

And the guy two houses up with the twentysomething "boarder" living in the house? Well, he might be light in the loafers.

And the people next door had a walk-in meat locker, which seemed odd considering that the grocery store was a block away.

Oh yeah, in 1979 things were "normal" in my neighborhood.

The magic of TiVo has brought us Zombies on Broadway! [link]

Heh! Did you see me and JZ talking about it in the movie thread?

Evie's the cutest fluffy bunny ever. She and ita should have a bunny cute-fight.

Tonight I did not end up having people over for movies as I suggested in the Moofies thread. I worked until 9 pm and then spent about 30 minutes trying to get from half a block to my apartment to my apartment on my way home from the office. It was horrifying.

Best part: while standing cheek to cheek with hundreds of other drunks and sluttily dressed Manhattanites trying to cross Sixth, I'm told, apropos of nothing, "Oh, I know what you are! Your glasses are perfect! You remind me so much of my third grade teacher!"

with hundreds of other drunks and sluttily dressed Manhattanites

Which were you?

Oh bon, getting stuck in the Halloween parade when you don't want to be a part of it = THE SUCK!

I had an awesome and surreal time tonight at a fundraiser concert. It was Broadway stars singing Elvis Costello songs. Really good stuff, only 1-2 weak performances. In the audience spitting distance from us, Mike Nichols, and Joel Grey. Then Elvis comes out and does 5 songs, for this house of maybe 200 people. GAH!. Then we go to the after party and on the banquet with me two people down is Molly Ringwald. And Elvis is just talking to people and Daphne Rubin-Vega said hi and smiled at me. SUR-REAL.