Saturday, October 22, 2011

October, I barely knew ye.






I'm bitterly disappointed in my October. Bitterly! Halloween is the most magical time of year for me. I get to hide who I am behind a glorious costume, block out reality with bad horror movies, and feast on the culinary delights of the season.

Somehow this month flew by without my doing anything significantly Halloween-ie. I have yet to go through a haunted house or don a costume. I haven't watched any scary movies - with the exception of Stephen King's Carrie which disappointed me by being for more disturbing than I remember. I don't want to be disturbed. I want to be thoroughly creeped out whilst I watch, but not as such that the feeling lingers after the glow of the TV has faded and I'm all alone under the covers.

Determined to get some sort of Halloween thrill before the month was over, I went to see a live production of Evil Dead the Musical. While a poorly written script, the actual production turned out to be quite amusing and since my very good friend MLaw played a Deadite, that added to the fun. After, I took my picture with the actor who played Ash and he let me touch his "boom stick." Tee hee. If you don't get that reference, you're already lost. The crew I went with seemed to enjoy themselves and a good time was had by all.

But it isn't enough. I'm not satisfied. I must find more to do and I've only a week to do it! Cramming a month's worth of Halloween satisfaction is challenging enough for the everyman, but add to this the fact that I work nights! Really, my last two nights to get my Halloween on are next Thursday and Friday.

Hold on to your trick or treat bags, this is either going to get really crazy...or I'm just going to give up and it's going to get really boring.

Stay tuned...

If you dare...