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RTBTCKI The Happy Halloween 2015 edition
Oct. 31st, 2015 08:53 amHi, did you miss me?
I need to make it through today and then I can regroup and get on with November.
Halloween on a Saturday makes for a long day. Trick or Treating can go on for a long time. However we are well stocked with comics and candy so I hope we don't run out. Our gag for this year is that we have X-factor comics to hand out which Peter is going to sign on the inside so that they have a signed comic.
Caroline’s costume is mostly done. She took it on a test drive at the school dance and popped the hook and eyes I had put in to secure her skirt. I am going to get snaps today to solve that problem. But she looked great in it. I’ll have pictures and the like on Tuesday. She is going as Destiny Harper from the comic book series Vamplets.
Mets won and finally looked like they were having fun doing it.
I saw two “horror” films in the theater this year. The first was Goosebumps which had the right amount of scare with humor. I was really not too sure going in but it was a delightful movie with a strong cast and Jack Black manages, for the most part, not to be Jack Black. There are some really good zingers through out with enough for the adults to enjoy without going crazy and the kids get that lovely shiver from being scared safely.
The other was a film that needs to be seen and enjoyed but no one is doing so because the marketing department, again, doesn’t seem to know what to do with a del Toro film. When Peter and I saw the trailers on TV, we weren’t sure about seeing it because it looked like a ghost slasher film which is not our cuppa. But it was Del Toro and Hiddleston so it was hard to resist and then I heard an interview which tipped me off that the marketing department was not doing their job well.
So we went to see Crimson Peak and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Strong script that by the end of the film everything was answered. Great performances and lovely direction. It should be up for a costuming Oscar. And it was a Gothic Horror in the tradition of the Roger Corman’s Poe films especially Tomb of Ligeia. There is more mystery and mind games than bloody ghosts however there are some pretty bloody ghosts.
This year the graveyard is not in the front yard for the first time in over 15 years. We had the lawn reseeded and it needs a year to toughen up before I put the tombstones up. But I did put in the lights so that’s something.
Tomorrow starts the month of novel writing which I shall be doing but with a purpose. I have one started that I need to get done within the next month and a half.
That and a couple of puppets.
This I can do.
I am grateful for the fun of this holiday.
I need to make it through today and then I can regroup and get on with November.
Halloween on a Saturday makes for a long day. Trick or Treating can go on for a long time. However we are well stocked with comics and candy so I hope we don't run out. Our gag for this year is that we have X-factor comics to hand out which Peter is going to sign on the inside so that they have a signed comic.
Caroline’s costume is mostly done. She took it on a test drive at the school dance and popped the hook and eyes I had put in to secure her skirt. I am going to get snaps today to solve that problem. But she looked great in it. I’ll have pictures and the like on Tuesday. She is going as Destiny Harper from the comic book series Vamplets.
Mets won and finally looked like they were having fun doing it.
I saw two “horror” films in the theater this year. The first was Goosebumps which had the right amount of scare with humor. I was really not too sure going in but it was a delightful movie with a strong cast and Jack Black manages, for the most part, not to be Jack Black. There are some really good zingers through out with enough for the adults to enjoy without going crazy and the kids get that lovely shiver from being scared safely.
The other was a film that needs to be seen and enjoyed but no one is doing so because the marketing department, again, doesn’t seem to know what to do with a del Toro film. When Peter and I saw the trailers on TV, we weren’t sure about seeing it because it looked like a ghost slasher film which is not our cuppa. But it was Del Toro and Hiddleston so it was hard to resist and then I heard an interview which tipped me off that the marketing department was not doing their job well.
So we went to see Crimson Peak and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Strong script that by the end of the film everything was answered. Great performances and lovely direction. It should be up for a costuming Oscar. And it was a Gothic Horror in the tradition of the Roger Corman’s Poe films especially Tomb of Ligeia. There is more mystery and mind games than bloody ghosts however there are some pretty bloody ghosts.
This year the graveyard is not in the front yard for the first time in over 15 years. We had the lawn reseeded and it needs a year to toughen up before I put the tombstones up. But I did put in the lights so that’s something.
Tomorrow starts the month of novel writing which I shall be doing but with a purpose. I have one started that I need to get done within the next month and a half.
That and a couple of puppets.
This I can do.
I am grateful for the fun of this holiday.
