By: Roger Sutton,
on 10/30/2009
but when do you think trick-or-treating starts when Halloween is on a Saturday? I can't believe Hopey has been running things since January and still hasn't gotten back to us on this.
By: Roger Sutton,
on 6/22/2009
Or maybe it was, and that was the trouble.
By: Roger Sutton,
on 4/7/2009
I'm weeding the Horn Book's collection of professional, scholarly, and other adult books about children's literature, and damned if I didn't find a strange little trend. Along with the many out-of-date bibliographies and childhood reading memoirs by the foremothers (don't worry, I'm keeping those) are lots of coffee table books devoted to the work of Rackham, Nielsen and Dulac, all published in the 70's and designed with the same disco-deco look of this here Bette Midler record. You used to see these books on remainder tables in bookstores all over; if anyone is feeling nostalgic just come and grab 'em from the discards shelves outside my office.
By: Roger Sutton,
on 3/13/2009
Lolly took this neat picture of what our book collection looks like during remodeling. I can't quite tell where in the alphabet this is.
By: Roger Sutton,
on 1/13/2009
I can't remember how to link from within comments but yesterday's post about over-controlling caregivers reminded me of Lucy Lane Clifford's 1882 "The New Mother," which I instruct you to read before bedtime:
"If we were very, very, very naughty, and wouldn't be good, what then?"Then," said the mother sadly--and while she spoke her eyes filled with tears, and a sob almost choked her-- "then," she said, "I should have to go away and leave you, and to send home a new mother, with glass eyes and a wooden tail."
By: Roger Sutton,
on 12/10/2008
Roger,
You'll probably be horrified to learn that Guvmint runs this. Most municipalities declare specific times when Trick-or-Treating starts and stops.
Kinda kills the spontaneity if you ask me.
I think in my neighborhood it's 3:00-7:00. (I like it that there are suggested times--it helps the grown-ups to be prepared for the little ones who come early, and helps discourage teenagers from ringing the doorbells at 10:30 at night when the youngsters are sleeping it off.)
IF
Rochelle in our Ohio office said they all got it over with last night.
Here in Utah, if Halloween falls on a Sunday, most towns and cities will reassign Trick-or-Treating to a Saturday or Sunday. 'Cause we can't have youngsters traipsing around as witches and ghosts on Ye Sabbath, can we?
P.S. -- It took me forever to figure out who "Hopey" is. First thought: one of the Seven Dwarfs?
Whoops -- I meant to say that Trick or Treat gets reassigned to a Saturday or Monday.
At dusk her in Canada. Happy Halloween.
One or two p.m. for the very littlest ones. Regular hours start around six and go til nine. Then comes the Half-Hour of Disapproval for tutting but still handing out candy. Then it's (porch) lights out.
In NYC it's been going on non-stop for a week :) Happy Halloween.