There is a crazy Halloween house near my house and when I drove by, I saw a guillotine and the head being chopped off looked like a familiar politician. Will add it when it's not so dark out.
Meanwhile, these come from what I snapped out of my car window when doing home visits up north this morning. People go all out for this holiday. Check out the pirate ship, the people who have jumped the gun for Christmas, and the all-occasion giant yellow ribbon.
Reading news stories about Halloween -
Learned that thousands and thousands of Chinese-made "Ugly Teeth", intended to go into people's mouth, contained unsafe levels of lead.
That San Francisco brought all sorts of portable toilets , 90 of them, into the Castro district, then called off the party.
That Salem, Massachusetts is now the Halloween party capital, with masses converging, though maybe it's actually Greenwich Village, NYC!
That Capital Hill is the gold mine neighborhood for getting the most candy, in Seattle.
That some South Carolina sex offenders are being "coralled" tonight, to keep them from heading out into the night.
That we have Daylight Savings so as to have one more hour of daylight, due to the candy lobby.
That Just Born Candy Company, maker of Peeps, is having their ghost Peeps made in China this year.
That Halloween is banned in Moscow schools (Russia, not Idaho).
That the pumpkin tax has been ended in Iowa.
That hackers have flooded email boxes with a "storm" worm that steals credit card info.
That Mexico's Catholic Church is slamming Halloween as "damaging."
That the Federal Reserve gave Wall Street the Halloween treat of an interest rate cut.
That Selfridge's department store in London opened a psychic store for Halloween.
-slugbug-
Cool! A dad just brought a bunch of kids by to Trick or Treat. "Wow - a Cheney Jack-o-Lantern," he said - "Did you get it from the New Yorker?" "Yes," I said.
The Most Terrifying Halloween Story Ever Told (+)
by: Turkana
Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 18:43:44 PDT
Imagine there was a beautiful planet.
Imagine it was inhabited by billions of sentient beings.
Imagine the most technologically advanced of those beings was in the process of poisoning that planet for everyone.
Imagine that all life was at risk.
Imagine that those most technologically advanced beings were, as T.S. Eliot once put it, too
distracted from distraction by distraction
to do anything about it.
Imagine those most technologically advanced beings were even putting the survival of their own species at risk.
Imagine time was running out.
Imagine those most technologically advanced beings were actually making things worse, not better.
Imagine.
The horror.
This is by far my most favorite Halloween reading treat!!!
Cool that the Iowans shouted down that tax!
Posted by: zapata | October 31, 2007 at 10:56 PM