Happy Halloween

Creature Features on WGN Sunday nights was one of the greatest forbidden pleasures of my youth. Forbidden because it came on an hour after my bedtime and I had to be reeeaally sneaky to see it. The music is by Henry Mancini from An Experiment in Terror from 1962.

Halloween post-game

The cave in the garage went better than I thought it would. I managed to get it all set up by about 3:30, so I could catch my breath before any kids showed up. It rained on and off through the day and I thought wouldn't get anybody to show up, but we had a fair amount of family groups come by for a couple of hours.

The kids, even the older ones, were hesitant to come in, so I guess it looked pretty spooky. I could never get my mask on and hood up in time when we say them coming down the driveway, so I could only jump up and scare a few of them but I got a lot of 'em with Zombie Nixon.

It was fun. I'm going to try this again next year.

Happy Halloween

This is a hurried and blurry photo of the Skeletal Protester character for this year's Halloween display. The body is a cheap Bucky skeleton with a glowing head and hands. The sign says "On all the important issues of our day, I have been totally in agreement and support of President Bush," which is what McCain said on Meet the Press in 2005. With it is a photo of McCain hugging Bush in 2004.

I had to put it on the front step to keep it out of the fucking rain. We're supposed to have rain tonight through Sunday. It couldn't have waited two more days?! I took tomorrow off to finish building my cave in the garage. Hopefully we'll get at least a couple of kids. I can't do anything in the garage until tomorrow because we park the cars in there so I'll be busy. The zombie Nixon is done though, and I should be able to finish before it gets dark. I'll keep the garage door closed as long as possible but I'll have to finish hanging the cobwebs from the ceiling when the door is open. If everything works ok, then I'll try to post a better picture.

5 days until the election! Don't forget to vote early if you are able to and haven't done so. I'll hit the phonebank over the weekend and maybe get out in the street for No on 8 if I can.

Halloween is Just Around The Corner

Tonight Leej and I came up with a plan for this year's Halloween Display. I'm going to have to start soon, but it'll scare you out of your shoes!