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Category: Halloween

Things related to Halloween

  • Crappy Costumes

    Yes, it really is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup costume.“Hey Mom! I wanna be a Scratch ‘N’ Sniff Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup this year!”

    My sister and I were just reminiscing about those store bought Halloween costumes that just consisted of a mask and plastic gown. We could never convince Mom to buy them for us and always ended up making our costumes. I was a “Punk Rocker” for, like, six years in a row. (I used to braid my hair and then paint each of the strands a different color. I thought I was so cool.) Anyway, Kim found an online archive of those cheesy store costumes. Some of these are just unbelievable. Asteroids the Atari game? Chachi from “Happy Days”? Flipper the dolphin? A frickin’ Rubik’s Cube??

  • Wow. Anon goes Halloween. And I am suddenly craving pumpkin pie.

  • New Poll: Okay, it’s late Halloween night. You’ve finally wiggled out of your costume and you dump your bag of booty out on the bed. Carefully, you begin to separate everything out into prioritized piles. Yeah, yeah, I know you’re all about the mini Hershey bars and Reese’s peanut butter cups. But what’s the last thing you eat? What’s in the “trade” pile that you try to off-load on your brother and sister? What really sucks? Enquiring minds want to know.

  • Halloween in IndianaHalloween in Indiana
    My dad sent me this picture and it just cracks me up. I’m not actually sure it was taken in Indiana, but it sure looks like it. Man, that makes me homesick. We have gray skies in London too, but not nice crisp autumn ones like this. And check out that Hoosier humor! You KNOW you’d wanna hit this house if you were trick-or-treating. 🙂

    (For those wondering, they don’t really do Halloween over here. It’s mostly a grown-up holiday, and nobody decorates or anything. Our house is the only one I’ve seen with a jack-o-lantern. Bonfire Night is coming up in a week or so though, so that’s when the young ‘uns get to have their fun with fireworks and candy and such.)

  • Three things

    My little jack-o-lanternThree things that describe my afternoon: apple pie (another culinary experiment), pumpkin carving (the finished result you see before you), and Ani Difranco (not exactly housewife music, but I like it).

  • Snookums and I were checking out the baby pumpkins at the Hammersmith market today. So naturally my thoughts turn to Halloween and I look to the Net for inspiration. My first impulse was to do one of these cool emoticon jack-o-lanterns. I mean, it’s definitely appropriate for our Geek House. But then I saw these Martha Stewart monogrammed pumpkins and now I’m torn. Of course, if I did spend three hours making a translucent harlequin squash, somebody would only step on it in a drunken haze and I’d be all upset. So maybe I should just stick with the original idea.

  • Ohmygod. I want a Jedi baby! This is going to be *the* Halloween costume next year, mark my words.

  • The ghosts of Washington Hall

    Happy Halloween! Here’s an Observer article about the ghosts of Washington Hall. Having spent a good portion of my college years in that building doing plays, I think most of this is crap. I’ve never heard any damn trumpets. But the George Gipp thing is freaky… Skip down to the quotes from Roger, who cleans the building. He’s a cool guy and he told me about seeing the ghost before. I totally believe him too. That place is kinda scary at night. (Lizzie, didn’t you climb in an open window there one Halloween night?)

  • Peeps

    Holy cow! There’s a new kind o’ Peeps! They look like little gingerbread people. But hey! Whatever happened to Scary Cats? I SWEAR they used to make orange cats for Halloween. Eileen licked one sophomore year and stuck it to our dorm room door. It stayed there until we chipped it off six months later.