Shit, I missed Halloween!

[The Curmudgeon]

Damn it all, wouldn't you just know it? I MISSED Halloween on the Fortress this year, and I had all kinds of horror/ghost threads to write about as well.

Truth be known, my grandad is dying, and so I had to spend some time saying "goodbye" (although he was given 48 hours a week ago and he's still going, so who knows?) although I did go to a Halloween party - without a costume. I figured there'd be, like, three girls dressed up and that was it. But no - everyone was dressed up except for me. I felt like a tool (for NOT dressing up in a stupid costume, ironically).

Mrs Curmudgeon went dressed as Wonder Woman, and there was one of those pinyata's hanging from the ceiling. So, she gets blindfolded and gets given a stick. She whacks the thing but actually knocks the hook from the ceiling - and a bit of the ceiling comes off. The woman who's flat it was didn't look too pleased, so I said, "hey - YOU'RE the one who gave a stick to someone with Amazonian powers." Didn't even get a laugh.

So Halloween was a bit of a bust for The Curmudgeon this year. No horror movies, no trick or treaters (although I hate giving anything to the little bastards) and no costume for your humble narrator.

So how was YOUR Halloween, Dwellers?

[trashcanman]

My condolences. I didn't watch a single horror movie. It was like the vamps on Buffy: Halloween was the one night I took off from horror. I had to be the guy in my my neighborhood to hold it down for the young'ns. Almost every asshole on the street had their home blacked out because it's too much trouble to spring for $10 worth of candy and answer your door a few times for an hour or two to bring some joy to kid's lives. At least I got more traffic than last year, though no sexy girls in vamp/devil costumes at my door. I did take my son around later (he was Superman....not my pick) and we had some fun though it only confirmed that my neighbors are the grinches who stole Halloween. Your wife went as Wonder Woman? And no pictures for your loyal dwellers? That's so very wrong of you. I expected better!

[The Curmudgeon]

I did take pictures, actually. Tell you what, let me see what I can do.

Wait a minute, why am I condoning this? Ah, of course - bro's befo.. never mind.

[Benjamin Haines]

Sorry to hear about your grandfather, C. If he can pull through then here's hoping he makes a speedy recovery, and if it's just his time then here's hoping he goes in peace.

My Halloween was pretty unusual, but I enjoyed it through and through. Early in the day, I helped a friend spike another one of our friend's hair for his costume as a punk rocker. He had 12-16 inch spikes going in every direction by the time we were done. Great stuff.

One of the cooler professors here shows a different political-themed movie in his classroom every Friday at 7pm. I went with a few peeps to that in the Halloween evening, this week seeing a recent Michael Moore documentary called Slacker Uprising about the man's campaigning to get young people to vote in the 2004 presidential election. It was a good doc, although it got a little redundant watching Moore do pretty much the same thing at every rally for 90 minutes, but it was particularly relevant at this time.

My car is still dead from an oil leak (I need money to fix the car, I need a job to get money, and I need the car to get a job - a vicious circle), so driving around party-hopping was pretty much out of the question. I've also been abstaining from smoking anything since last Monday night, and I'm not breaking this fast until tomorrow before I go to vote for the first time, so I didn't really feel like going to any Halloween parties without that anyway. I spent the rest of the evening just chilling with one of my friends who didn't have anything going on. First we went to Cloverfield at the campus theater (which still owns), and then I showed her Pulp Fiction. How she could go this long in life without having seen Pulp Fiction prior is beyond me, but that sin has now been remedied.

Not a very Halloween-themed Halloween, but a fun one regardless.

[The Curmudgeon]

Well, a monster movie and a movie based around carrying someone's soul around isn't too far off from a Halloween themed night.