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Halloween 2015

There’s only one thing you’ve never done but are guaranteed to do.

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From JEOPARDY! Show #7149 – Thursday, October 15, 2015. HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS
*Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
*Why not dress up as this Barrie character, the boy who would not grow up
*Roll up the sleeves of a blue denim workshirt, put a red bandana in your hair & you can be this feminist WWII icon
*A costume for 2: this double-crossing pair from Mad magazine, one in black & one in white, created by Antonio Prohias
*If the guys are gangsters, wear fringed dresses & be these ’20s gals found in a Fitzgerald title

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Arthur’s Halloween stuff, some crossover with Stuff you may not have known about Halloween.

JibJab Halloween cards.

Some seasonal GIFs

Pumpkin recipes.

Zombie pancake.

Vegan Halloween Candy List.

Calvin and Hobbes’ tips for trick-or-treating.

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You should just read about 90% of the October posts from SamuraiFrog.

Halloween, by the numbers. For you Census geeks.

Jaquandor’s musical Something for Thursday (Halloween edition).

Steve Bissette: How To Design The Perfect Horror Cover.

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe – Read by Christopher Walken.

5 Great Outdoor Halloween Ideas.

There’s only one thing you’ve never done but are guaranteed to do.

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JEOPARDY! responses
The Mummy
Peter Pan
Rosie the Riveter
Spy vs. Spy
Flappers

Halloween 2014

ditko.baldmtNo Such Thing: spooky (not scary!) picture book

Here are several of SamuraiFrog’s recent posts which even predate October 1

Jaquandor has you covered if you want Halloween music.

The cubist at your door.

HalloweenCollector.com.

Mark Evanier points to a “web exclusive” from John Oliver. It’s about the mania this time of year for things with pumpkin in them, and Evanier lists some of them off.

Some People Go All Out for Halloween!

Periodic table of unspeakable horrors

Zombie pancakes!

10 Things You Never Knew About Candy Corn, The Candy You Love To Hate and Farm Pop: Candy Corn Makes a Comeback.

Video: A day in the life of a master neon sign artist

Why Are Witches Green?

Pumpkin Saving Time

All the vintage Hallowe’en masks

31 Absolutely Adorable Halloween Costumes for the Entire Family

Quick and easy Halloween costumes for adults

Melting zombie candles (and other delights)

Michael May is reviewing horror movies all month

Ghost trees

10 Adorable Halloween Costumes for Your Dog

Rich Person Writes Letter Complaining About Having To Give Candy To Poor Kids On Halloween.

Friday the 13th skull-spoons. But how do you eat soup with these?

Angmering family’s fright over Hallowe-en candle bag fire by Roger Green of the Littlehampton Gazette (UK)

Worst Halloween costume of the year? Ebola health worker.

Here are 18 pictures that demonstrat​e how terrifying Halloween was back in the day.

5 classic horror movies that’ll give you the creeps this Halloween.

Video of extreme haunted house in San Diego. (Not for the faint of heart.)

Halloween 2013

Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn’t stand a chance

via Aaron Paul’s Instagram

Each year, I just post seasonal links. I used to post them on the 31st, but then you wouldn’t have time to make use of those costume design ideas. Here’s a terrible joke I saw: A skeleton walks into a bar and says “I’d like a beer and a mop.”

Census: Halloween Facts for Features

IBISWorld: Halloween Sales to Grow a Slow 3.0 Percent in 2013

All month, there are Pagan Scares from Postmodern Barney

The A to Z of Stephen King Cinema, a comic of greatness

Listing Toward Forty is Listing Toward Halloween

Stephen R. Bissette’s WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!

The work of the devil…

11 Halloween Freebies: Where to Eat Free for Wearing Costumes

Transforming black-light Bride of Frankenstein makeup

Hauntbox: open-source hardware box for controlling your automated, electronic haunted house

This Family Wins All Costume Contests For Forever Continue reading “Halloween 2013”

All Hallows Eve 2012

The Daughter will go out tonight, but because of her peanut allergy, she generally gets to keep less than 50% of her haul; her mother gets the rest.

For all my lifetime, through 2006, the end of Daylight Saving Time in most of the United States was on the last Sunday in October. But thanks to the powerful candy lobby, which wants children to be able to trick or treat on Halloween with more daylight, and its ally, the dentist lobby, which wants children to rot their teeth, it’s been pushed back to the first Monday in November. It’s this time of year that always confuses me in terms of what time it in other countries, since the start and end of DST/British Summer Time does not happen simultaneously. Go to this site to see what time it is around the world.

Glad to see that Mark Evanier has ended his war on candy corn.; well, almost. He still doesn’t like it, but as long as he doesn’t have to eat it, he doesn’t care if you do. I happen to like it, in moderation. Can’t seem to find a decent video of I Don’t Like Candy Corn by Moose and Zee from Nick Jr., which I remember watching with my daughter a few years back.

The Daughter will go out tonight, but because of her peanut allergy, she generally gets to keep less than 50% of her haul; her mother gets the rest. She’s going as a soccer player, BTW, which is a bit of a cheat since she IS.

Here’s something I may not have mentioned; I don’t particularly like peanut butter. Actually, that’s not true – I HATE peanut butter. Odd thing is that I loved it as a kid, specifically Jif. I remember eating it when I was three or four. I think I must have had too much at some point because now the smell makes me nauseous, and the taste is intolerable. I’m not allergic; I can eat peanuts, though I don’t love them.

I’ve dressed up for Halloween as an adult, but not for at least a decade.

Having never seen a movie from the Halloween movie series, I’m not planning to start now. Yet I know more about the series than I care to because FantaCo, where I worked in the 1980s, sold a number of Michael Myers masks, and other items of interest. But my buddy Steve Bissette revisits the film, and also reviews 2016: OBAMA’S AMERICA (2012).

Go search SamuraiFrog’s blog for Halloween goodness. Then, courtesy of Jaquandor, listen to spooky music – if you dare!

The Library of Congress: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows
The Food and Drug Administration: Halloween Food Safety Tips for Parents
The Census Bureau: Facts for Features: Halloween

Halloween 1986: Gary Carter and a Greyhound Bus Strike

The only time I saw Gary Carter in person was the year he was inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, in 2003. It wasn’t at the induction ceremony, but in Cooperstown that same weekend.

For most of the 1980s, I would travel on a bus from Albany, NY, to my hometown of Binghamton, NY to attend an annual Halloween party, held by a high school friend of mine and her then-husband. The only way to get there was by Greyhound bus, and there must have been some sort of labor dispute in 1986 because they had replacement drivers. I remember the driver on the return trip to Albany get off the wrong Oneonta exit, riding through parts of the city not usually traversed on that route, and ending up in parts of the SUNY Cobleskill campus I had never seen before; two or three passengers, including myself, ended up being the navigators during a torrential downpour.

As for the Saturday night party itself, it happened to coincide with Game 6 of the World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox. Boston was up 3 games to 2. Usually, we didn’t watch the Series at this party, but the hostess was a big Mets fan. In fact, she was wearing an excellent replica of the uniform of the Mets’ All-Star catcher, Gary Carter, her favorite player, who was the hero of Game 4; her coif even replicated the curls in his hair.

The room went wild after the Mets’ unexpected Game 6 win, due in no small part because of Carter’s 10th inning, two-out hit. There had already been quite a bit of drinking going on and there was…more afterward.

Fortunately, I didn’t miss the final game of the Series, as I had feared. The same blinding rainstorm that made my return trip to Albany on Sunday so eventful also rained out the game at New York’s Shea Stadium, so I did get to see the Mets’ victory in the decisive Game 7 on Monday when I got back to Albany. Incidentally, “NBC’s broadcast of Game 7 (which went up against a Monday Night Football game between the Washington Redskins and New York Giants on ABC) garnered a Nielsen rating of 38.9 and a 55 share, making it the highest-rated single World Series game to date.”

The only time I saw Gary Carter in person was the year he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 2003. It wasn’t at the induction ceremony but in Cooperstown that same weekend. He seemed like a great guy who had what Yahoo! sports called an “unapologetic joy” for the game. I was sorry to hear that he died this week of a malignant brain tumor, diagnosed in May 2011.
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Gary Carter dead at 57, and on the passing of youth.

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