Welcome, Ghouls and Ghosts!  It’s almost Halloween, and, considering we take this stuff into the witching hour (and beyond), I figured I play around a bit with that theme.  As you may recall, I mentioned that I will (would?) be attending a costume party tonight.  As a bona fide glibertarian, I typically eschew social outings like this, especially when most of the attendees are strangers.  However, to tell a family secret, I’ve been curating a Jedi/Sith/whatever get-up for a couple of years now.  And, since I’m no LARPer, this is probably the best place to introduce the world to my lame-ass attempt at make-believe.  With that, I’m now going to attempt to refocus your attention on some-WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!? (made you look!)

 

A fitting start to tonight’s festivities.

My usual even starts with a rather appropriate tale.

The horror….The horror…  Serious, if you are prone to sympathy pains, you may want to skip this.  Then again, if you have been here for any length of time, this is simply the visual representation of many a link on this site.

I used to wonder why we didn’t have (more of) a UK glib presence here.  I now think most of our “type” are probably in jail.

So, in the interest of not bogging anyone down with too-long videos, check out this rather fascinating collector of internet oddities.  YMMV with the various videos, but, I typically enjoy his postings.  Hint:  try the video for “Channel 58”.  It’s about 30 minutes, but kinda creepy-fun.

Thanks, Metroplex!  Trying to keep in mind that 11 people (out of 12) said this was the correct way to proceed.  I tend to believe the saying that juries are made up of people too stupid to get out of jury duty.  And, Dallas County is chocked full of people fitting that bill.  And, thanks to them, this child is gonna be wearing a permanent costume.  Trick or treat, kid.

Any of you have Halloween stories you want to share with the rest of us?  If it helps, I can get a campfire going.  The only stories I can recall are the year I stayed home to protect our dog.  Now, this was the mid 80’s, and there was lots of talk going around about the possibility of cults kidnapping pets for animal sacrifices.  The only really shocking thing about it was that my mom was OK with me missing church to stay home with my dad’s 12 gauge to protect said dog.  Nothing happened.  Also, I may, or, may not, have pulled a Trudeau at some point in my teens.  That’s right; Diggy may have almost bankrupted the Great White North, while smothering it with wokeism.  Or, maybe Diggy didn’t…

“Cara Mia!!”  The three-legged stool (eww) of Horror, Romance, and Humor is difficult to build.  That said, this is a fun attempt at the concept.  Look—it was either that, or, this attempt, and you lot always gripe about “Too early!!1!eleven”

Halloween news you can use?  Yes.  Yes, it is.

Go on–Just embrace it.  ?

I think that wraps up the month rather well…alright—mediocrely.   It’ll be November soon, so I guess I have to dig up tales of turkeys, family feuds, and colonial oppression.  See ya soon, Pilgrim.