You could be forgiven for thinking you could get through the day without seeing a Dickensian interpretation of Thriller. Some folks are Harry Potter fans. Others love Oz. It is the Dickens fan that is the most interesting to me sometimes, though. My friend Marci informed me that when Michael Jackson died there were a host of different versions of Thriller. This one is definitely amongst the silliest. Thanks to marchek for the link.
So Happy Halloween, everybody! Yesterday I attended a Halloween party as The Lonely Doll (my husband was Mr. Bear). I’ll try to wrangle up pictures if I ever get a chance. Now I’ve been steadily collecting pertinent links to this particular day all year, and now at last I can finally show them off.
For example, we have Calef Brown. What I need you to do here is to promise to watch at least one minute. One minute. And after that one minute you can turn it off, if you like. But I don’t think you will.
My sole regret here is that he never uses Kalamazoo as a rhyme. Hometown silly name pride! By the way, some of these (perhaps all) are from Mr. Brown’s Hallowilloween. There’s your tie-in.
Today is meant to be a scary day, so here are a couple costumes that are certain to strike fear in an adult hearts. Though I do kind of have to agree about their statements regarding the last costume. I’m a sucker for flapperwear. Thanks to Sarah for the link.
It must be useful to be married to an accordionist. There are all sorts of applications readily at hand.
Feel a little silly dressing up this year but don’t want to look like a complete wet blanket when going out with your kids door to door? Why not compromise by wearing this t-shirt? It’s the Ghost Host’s spiel from The Haunted Mansion in Disneyland.
Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.
In New York City, of course, it’s a little difficult to go trick or treating. There are, of course, other options. For example, if you’ve older kids, you can take them to the local 1 Comments on Happy Halloween! Video Sunday Goes Goth., last added: 10/31/2010
Holy cow. That IS the worst picture book in the history of humankind. Apt for Halloween, but not much else. It’s not even campily funny like some of the books posted on Lane Smith and Bob Shea’s Curious Pages. It’s just… bad. Also: thanks for the shout-out on the Halloween mixes. Will get the blog back “on topic” to children’s books & comics soon.