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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 2, 2018 19:20:59 GMT -5
Today I dropped off a sack of disused Halloween costumes for a collection we're taking up at the main building of my agency. Someone had a brainwave and realized how out of reach Halloween gear must be for many of our clients, who are almost 100% on Medicaid, so they're starting a Halloween clothes closet. From me they got a witch's hat, a pair of gorilla gloves, a couple of skull masks, a child-size zombie costume, two (2) devil outfits (horns, tails and pitchforks), a raven-haired wig with goat horns, and one of these excellent hats:
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Nov 3, 2018 5:08:35 GMT -5
I always make myself go down to the parade in the Village, and I'm always glad I did. Really good turnout this year, up a bit, I think, over last year, when some people were likely squeamish because of that fucking asshole who deliberately plowed through a bike path on the west side the day before.
Favorite costumes: a guy dressed as a swan, painted white and with his torso covered in blown-up surgical gloves for the feathers, his arm being the neck and his fingers pursed and orange for the beak, and a tall nun of indeterminate sex whose face was nothing but a mass of bloody fangs. I couldn't see the library tower that they usually dangle a huge spider from at first, because I was too far downtown; when I got uptown later I think they had it resting on the railing for some reason. A body-painting organization that's active in the area always does a float, so I got to see some multi-colored balloons, if you know what I mean. A good time. Oh, and NY1, the local 24-hour news station always covers it live, and when I saw some footage later, one of the hosts was commenting (perfectly benignly) on how someone right in the vicinity of where they were sitting was blazing up. How times have changed. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 5, 2018 8:39:56 GMT -5
I always make myself go down to the parade in the Village, and I'm always glad I did. Really good turnout this year, up a bit, I think, over last year, when some people were likely squeamish because of that fucking asshole who deliberately plowed through a bike path on the west side the day before.
Favorite costumes: a guy dressed as a swan, painted white and with his torso covered in blown-up surgical gloves for the feathers, his arm being the neck and his fingers pursed and orange for the beak, and a tall nun of indeterminate sex whose face was nothing but a mass of bloody fangs. I couldn't see the library tower that they usually dangle a huge spider from at first, because I was too far downtown; when I got uptown later I think they had it resting on the railing for some reason. A body-painting organization that's active in the area always does a float, so I got to see some multi-colored balloons, if you know what I mean. A good time. Oh, and NY1, the local 24-hour news station always covers it live, and when I saw some footage later, one of the hosts was commenting (perfectly benignly) on how someone right in the vicinity of where they were sitting was blazing up. How times have changed. Photos, sirrah? Did you get any? |
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Post by Mayzshon on Nov 6, 2018 19:33:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Nov 18, 2018 11:44:24 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 2, 2019 0:12:20 GMT -5
Yes! My favorite month of the year is here!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 3, 2019 23:06:13 GMT -5
I finally assembled "Hagatha the Towering Witch" tonight. She is everything I could have hoped for and more! She is actually slated for a grove-like area of pines in the front yard, but I just had to see how she'd look all put together. For once, the specs line up on a prop. She is every bit the 7ft promised. Surprisingly lifelike when she speaks, and she talks like some Southern swamp hag. Her eyes look wicked when they are lit up, too!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 4, 2019 23:36:25 GMT -5
I finally got going on these two other ideas I've had percolating for months. One shot is of my own set of trick-'r-treaters to greet visitors, and the other is of a nightmare I will have hiding in the shadows at the corner of the house. I intend on putting a strobe on him at its slowest setting, so he is lit-up only every few seconds or so.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 4, 2019 23:39:22 GMT -5
 Also, because I'm finding them so inspirational, another crop from some twisted 50's horror comics I've been downloading.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 6, 2019 19:30:18 GMT -5
I want to know why all the Halloween costumes routed to me this year at Pinterest are for dogs.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 6, 2019 19:31:47 GMT -5
pin.it/zpfvfru3e7pr4zThis is a link to my new Halloween file started after someone suspended my entire Pinterest everything for no goddamned reason on earth. (Later it all came back somehow, so now I have 2 profiles under 2 different email as does. Whatever.) But look at the very first link showing dog wearing a skull mask. I won't add anything for a while so it will stay at the top. It's an outstanding video clip.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 6, 2019 20:00:42 GMT -5
OK, this is better. Dog costume coolness: pin.it/gor43yxrwkawyuNo, it's not that much better. Where's the blasted sound? |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 6, 2019 21:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 6, 2019 22:42:38 GMT -5
pin.it/zpfvfru3e7pr4zThis is a link to my new Halloween file started after someone suspended my entire Pinterest everything for no goddamned reason on earth. (Later it all came back somehow, so now I have 2 profiles under 2 different email as does. Whatever.) But look at the very first link showing dog wearing a skull mask. I won't add anything for a while so it will stay at the top. It's an outstanding video clip.
Great bunch of stuff, Cliffie! Pinterest is thee shit.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 6, 2019 23:52:30 GMT -5
Another 50's sickie panel crop:
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 7, 2019 10:53:10 GMT -5
Have you guys heard about this online petition to make Halloween trick-'r-treating fall on the Saturday night before Halloween? What does the Bee think of this idea?
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Post by Deeky on Oct 7, 2019 13:49:48 GMT -5
Have you guys heard about this online petition to make Halloween trick-'r-treating fall on the Saturday night before Halloween? What does the Bee think of this idea? They already do this in Hanover, PA. I've a friend who grew up there and he said it was always the weekend before since he was a kid. |
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Post by Mayzshon on Oct 8, 2019 18:33:28 GMT -5
Where I grew up in Ohio, some towns had trick-or-treating on Beggar's Night (before Halloween, but I can't remember exactly when) while other towns had trick-or-treating on Halloween itself. We lived in a town that did Beggar's night, and my Grandma lived in a town that did Halloween, so I did both.
Which goes a long way towards explaining why I'm such a lard ass today.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 8, 2019 22:46:14 GMT -5
Where I grew up in Ohio, some towns had trick-or-treating on Beggar's Night (before Halloween, but I can't remember exactly when) while other towns had trick-or-treating on Halloween itself. We lived in a town that did Beggar's night, and my Grandma lived in a town that did Halloween, so I did both. Which goes a long way towards explaining why I'm such a lard ass today.
Wait. You got TWO Halloweens every year?!? Who cares how you appear? You've already won at life! And at a remarkably young age, too.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 8, 2019 23:09:13 GMT -5
Have you guys heard about this online petition to make Halloween trick-'r-treating fall on the Saturday night before Halloween? What does the Bee think of this idea? They already do this in Hanover, PA. I've a friend who grew up there and he said it was always the weekend before since he was a kid.
I'd be curious to see the data (on whether it's safer to hold it on weekends or not) from the places who do it like that. That's the major point of this night change, according to those lobbying for it.
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Also, because I'm finding them so inspirational, another crop from some twisted 50's horror comics I've been downloading. 
