Happy Halloween !!!!
 

BOO !

OK, so it's not halloween there yet, but I wanted to show off. Neener neener neener.

Our "Halloween treat dinner" is... you guessed it... Haggis !!!!!

Stoat's already trembling in his boots.

...and I've made a margarita mix and dyed it green. :cheers:

I think Haggis is more of a trick than a treat. :D

Oooooh, Happy Halloween everyone!

My favorite holiday (which I'm celebrating kinda lite this year ... only two parties, two costumes, a trip to the local haunted house after work tomorrow, and then to the WeHo Spectacle of Ween for my first time eva!)

If I'd had more time in Wheeling, I could have gone to the Dungeon of Horrors at the former Penitentiary.

Which costume are you wearing to WeHo ?

Pru, that looks really good. I like that it's in a real "dungeon" as it were :D

Good, then you won't mind me sending you some in the post then? :evil:

What's a WeHo?

I assume it's not a short prostitute......

WeHo - West Hollywood

Hee!

West Hollywood, IMO, is the best place to go do a random Halloween outing. You're pretty much guaranteed a good time, so long as you're not too much of a prude.

Is it made from a real hag?
:D
And if you're making it is it faggis?
:D

Everyday is Halloween.

Boo who?

Happy Halloween!

Zombie dreams and Vampire wishes to everyone!

There's a layer under my skin
a wrapping rapping underneath
an indentation percolation
a boundary, a crackling sheath

Keeping out and keeping in
flexing bending strapping down
sizzles in front of any gaze
no place but mine inside this gown

Is it a new or aged prize?
Cured and stored and cut to size?
Taught loyalty and fed to burst
when it's good it's at its worst

Do I love its cursed embrace?
How it obscures my pointed face?
Yet it projects a haunted grace
Perhaps my visage I'll replace

Boo!

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit...
and the demons of the world inhabit it...
BUT NOT FOR LONG.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

In 12th grade, I wrote a story for an English assignment that involved one child murdering another. I got an A+.

Yeesh - those transparant plastic masks have always given me the heebie-jeebies.

Speaking of masks - I can never see the eponymous phrase without thinking of this irritating jingle (to the tune of London Bridge)

Happy Happy Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Happy Happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock

Now, the movie that comes from is a serious guilty pleasure. Absolute rubbish, but it's oddly compelling. I watch it every year around this time.

I think I'm going to be one of those horrible people that turn off all of the lights and hide in my house for Halloween.

In 12th grade i wrote a story called revenge of the hurbs that involved me building a Death Hummer with my friends and killing/blowing up everyone in my crappy high school, and some of the neighboring ones as well. Got A+ and had to do multiple readings.


Halloween is my fave holiday but I'm afraid I'm not enjoying to its' fullest this year.

Ooer - I've got no candy..... *oops*

...I wonder how Haggis would go over.....

Lucky I live in a security block and can just ignore the buzzer :evil:

Sweeney Todd, again! ;)

Happy Haunts all! I'm in the land where the paddy wagons will be out in force arresting anyone attempting to party in the Castro this year. Many moons ago, that was a gret party to be at, crowded and fun, not so much now, more prone to violence and crime, which is sad.

I do have candy ready, we have children in the building now!

And today, you'd be suspended and sent to child services for evaluation.

Boo to YOU and YOU and YOU and YOU and YOU and YOU HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
(silly WDW song stuck in my head *grumble,grumble*)

I'm down in West Hollywood tonite! Walking around the block party and then I was invited to ANOTHER party after that. I'll probably peter out early due to the lack o sleep (friggin early ass court this morning) but anyone who is down that way give me a ring!

Happy Halloween everyone:cheers:

It's Halloween-o-ween everybody! It's Halloween, give a scream it's Halloween!

I'm wearing all black, and I'm bringing decor to a work Halloween party. We're having a taco bar, so we're calling it "Los Tacos de Terror". Tonight, hopefully carve a small pumpkin and hand out some candy. I got the night off work, but we're just going to hang out at home.

Have fun, everyone!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

I'll be passing out candy at home. Not to be confused with passing out at home. I forgot to buy a pumpkin. Oops. Oh well.

Oh and Lash, you're right, Stoat should fear the Haggis (ew).
Scares the hell out of me! :eek:

Come on by, I have wonderful candy here at my desk.

Damn. It's Halloween already? I still have about a hundred pounds of uncarved pumpkins sitting on my front porch.

Humm... What can an artistically challenged artist like myself do in short order... Cyclops... yeah. That's the ticket.

I simply had to share this...
I didn't know people in my office were dressing up today.
But there are a couple of winners.

1. Two sisters who work here came as Mustard and Ketchup packets.

2. A scheduler came as Shug Avery from 'The Color Purple'. (She looks FABULOUS!)

3. And best of all, one guy came as Chip from 'Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers'. Rumor has it that his Dale counterpart called in sick. It's frickin' hysterical to watch him walk around (with the full on Chip head) bummed because there's no Dale. lol!

:D

I'm totally dying here.
Chip keeps passing by my desk.
I can't stop laughing...
:D

Did he make the head, or is it a real one from Disney?

He made the head. It's terrific. Fur and everything...

Now I'm imagining a cage full of shaved chipmunks.

What is that about spiders and snails and puppy dog tails?

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Boo!

We're in a new apartment complex so I have no idea if there will be any trick or treaters coming around. It is gated but there are quire a few young kids around. Our porch light is automatic and can't be turned off.

So I'll probably just play Guitar Hero III all evening (finally, my Wii has a purpose) and ignore the doorbell if it rings.

But maybe, if I'm feeling social the first door ringer will get the bag of Mickey's Not So Scary candy we dragged back from Florida dropped into their aggressive pandhandling hands.

My complex has signs available that you put on your door if you will be handing out candy. I like that.

Sounds like that dog's dancing the magic dance. ;)

I'm probably going to miss the work Halloween party, since it starts in three minutes and I'm still at home. Next year I will be all over the Halloween celebration, I tells ya.

Cinematic pumpkins.

Carve one online.

Last minute costume, anyone?


A coworker asked me today whether his 6 year old daughter could handle Nightmare Before Christmas, which he had never seen. For God's sake, show it to her, the poor thing!

definitely needs more cowbell

A Kismet moment: Dead Man's Party came on the radio as I was reading this thread.

Since I will probably be working late again tonight, Halloween will be its usual non-existent self for me. No matter as we never get any kids at our place.

Should've gone to the Hollywood Forever Dia de los Muertes night after all.

Dead Looney Toons.

So... are you saying you're wearing an S&M patent leather corset fantasy ballgown with a mask?

Happy Halloween!

I left a bowl full of lollipops on my front porch with a note to take only one (which I'm sURE will be ignored!), because I won't even get home until like 6:30 or 7. And then I have the freakout plans to work on my house since there's a high likelihood of people entering it this weekend.

no

Well, I decorated my office's conference room for our Halloween Party. Waaa, the last party we will have here, and the last round of party decorating at this cushy job that basically lets me have a day off to decoarate and then tear down the many holiday parties we (used to) have throughout the year.


It was kind of a subdude party this time ... morale here is low. There will be no Christmas party this year - because it will be days away from everyone seeing each other for the last time. Not very Christmassy.

So this was our last office party ever. Waaaa. I will miss the free hand they give me to decorate. Love(d) that.



Oh well, off to great Haunted House after work, then WeHo. Maybe I'll run intoi Cherny.



Oh, the building down the block does their lobby all decked out for Halloween. Like an underground dungeon with tree roots hanging from the ceiling. Snakes and bats and spiders and tombs and moving figures and a creepy bride with headless groom.

Best of all is the Psycho Elevator ... it's the Bates Motel bathroom with a neon Bates Motel vacancy sign, all painted white inside with a towel bar and bloody towel, and ... OMG, a shower ... with bloody protruding body parts sticking out of the shower curtain, and the recorded sounds of shower water and the Psycho theme.

Best.Elevator.Ever.

Boy, nary a pumpkin around here (except my desk). I did bring back Dia de los Muertes skulls for everyone, those are on display.

Boy, nary a pumpkin around here (except my desk). I did bring back Dia de los Muertes skulls for everyone, those are on display.

iSm, that elevator sounds great! What give with your job, firm dissolving? If I may ask.

I wouldn't change places
With anyone tonight
We'll carve pumpkin faces
And watch the witches' flight
Every human heart will shudder
Every soul will shake with fear

Tonight
The creepiest...
Tonight
The scariest...
Tonight
The most wonderful night

Of (oh...)
The year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2cAuye_SM

Chip didn't win the costume contest. WTF? Shug Avery won 2nd and the guy dressed as a stereo won.
lol :D

Call for a recount - that contest must have fixed.

Guess what? I was misinformed.
(I missed the awards ceremony.)
Chip got 1st. :snap:
Shug Avery got 2nd.
Stereo Man got 3rd.

:)

No hairy ass cheeks and fake sagging boobs with exposed fake saggy nipples at our halloween contest this year, mercifully. No particularly interesting costumes to speak of either.

Our department didn't enter a pumpkin into the carving contest this year thanks to what happened last year. It was straight out of an Office episode. Our boss all but demanded that someone carve one. He looked at it and decided it sucked, so he demanded someone else "fix" it (they shoved a couple circuit boards into the side of its head or something). Then, when it won a prize (I believe there were 5 pumpkins entered and 3 prizes given out), whined that he didn't get a share of the prize (literally telling anyone who made the mistake of listening that that pumpkin "sucked" and that the prize money should be split). I'm shocked that no one was clamoring for the opportunity this year.

We didn't have a contest. In fact neither of us dressed up. I'm not sure it would be much of a contest with two people anyway.

Ah well. I'll have to see if any of the kids show up at home. Some of them are hilliarious. Last year I got this montion activated witch that's about 3 feet high and flaps her arms and giggles when she goes off. Unfortunaltely there are really steep steps that lead up to my apartment and a very small landing befor the door. She was scaring the bejeebers of of the kiddos and I was afraid one of them would fall backwards down the stairs so I had to move her. One kid came back twice cause he liked my candy. He must have been four or so.

Nobody dressed up here. Last year I think escrow had a party, but not this time around. So I just wore a little black dress and my Mickey Bats Day pin.

For as swell and lax as my workplace is, we sure are fuddy-duddy about Halloween. I brought donuts - not much else goin' on.

I'm off to weho! I'll give some of those drag queens a good bacon-flavoured smoochin from all of us here at the LoT :P

I'm not off - I am still here at the office. As I will be for quite some time.

Pisser.

I'm having a Post-Halloween breakfast of crisply fried slices of haggis served with bacon.

A few people dressed at my workplace - but most people just wore sports Jerseys, how lame is that?

Of course, I didn't dress up at all so I'm probably the Halloween Scrooge today.

I wore my Nemo & Nemo shirt and squid hat today for the few hours I was at work. That's all I had the energy for.

If I get the job in Wheeling, I'm totally going to work in full Victorian ensemble next year.

Well I went home from work on time. 3 bags of candy. No kids :(

I was supposed to go to my friends place but he ended up in San Bernardino until late tonight.

Any excuse to wear jeans and not dress shoes. ;)

Sincerely,

The chick who wore her Ducks jersey

After the nasty grams about dress code I would have gotten in trouble for wearing my Jessica Rabbit dress or French Maid outfit

A total of 4 trick-or-treaters thus far. I'd better like Reese's and Kit-Kats.

I've already put the Milky Ways in the freezer... no kids here!

Swamped. Bags upon bags given out. Easily twice the number we had last year.

It probably has something to do with the maze Moonie Junior spent a week building in the front yard once again.

I'm tired. Goodnight.

Ryan has the worst taste in candy. Seriously. Smarties and Double Bubble. And he thinks he didn't buy the crap candy. No, he thinks he got some great stuff there.

(sigh)

And since when does "get some candy" for the half-dozen kids we might get mean "buy five econo sized bags of the cheap crap and one small bag of decent stuff"?




I already laid claim to the one bag of decent candy, of course.

I got home from work and am hiding out inside a dark house avoiding trick or treaters. I had to drive amongst all of the kiddles being out and about. It was sort of a Halloween Slalom.

I miss having a house that kids come to. We used to get a lot of them in our last residence. We gave out full sized candy bars (though we did get the "Fun Size" for the wee ones).

Now, I just work all night (I am done, but wanted to check the LoT one last time before I went home).

It's official, on this, our 2nd Halloween here - our condo complex gets very few trick or treaters. :( One small bag of candy, next year.

no treats, just tricks

nearly killed on the way home from work

coven meeting cancelled

sitting here alone in my witch hat

it sucks to be me

If you mean only your witch hat, me thinks you will not be alone for very long. I think I felt the draft off of Kevy's car as he immediately dropped whatever he's working on and rocketed towards home.

funny, he just called to say he was on his way home....

hmmm.....

I had 7. Not very many but I've had fewer. Apartments don't seem to get much. The ones I had were very cute though. And someone in the complex was giving out not whole bars but whole multipacks judging from the wee one's baskets.

Oh, Trick or treater tally here = 0 :rolleyes:

5

6 if you count me saying "Trick-or-Treat" while grabbing a Kit Kat (turns out I do like them. Stunning).

None for us. Not a surprise.

One for us before we got a sign on the door saying "sorry, no candy."

They were unaccompanied. I was in the middle of a song on Guitar Hero III and Lani was in a boss fight so we just didn't answer the door. They knocked five times, some them real poundings.

So that pissed us off. If they hadn't done that we'd have gotten organized and been prepared to be handing out some candy. So instead we put up the sign went pack to our video games and will eat it ourselves.

At the droppings???

I did that once. It was my first appartment, and no funds for candy. So I played the trick instead. I put an empty cardboard box on the porch with a "Take One" note and my freind and I got a chuckle everytime kids looked into the box and said "Oh! It's all gone!"

Oh! West Hollywood! I get it!!

Same here, at least twice. All candy gone by 8:30 (three big bags, plus toys for the little ones).

Went to a Halloween party in Toluca Lake tonight. Several kids came by. My friends had a haunted graveyard out front. It was pretty cool.
We watched "Bell Book and Candle", "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Disney animated) and "Ghostbusters".
It was a fun night.
Methinks me had too much wine though... ;)

Happy Halloween, Everybody!
:)

Sounds like a great party. I'm attending one this Saturday, at a funeral home. I haven't got a costume yet. I'm hoping to find something heavily discounted tomorrow.

WeHo Halloween was just amazing, and something I plan on doing many more times.

I can't believe I've lived in this town for 30 years, even living in West Hollywood for a time, and never experienced this iconic Los Angeles street happening festivus of masquerade carnaltivality.


Wow.

Heather's brother drove down from the Bay Area yesterday afternoon with his family. We took went to DCA to participate in "Mickey's Halloween Treat". It was particularly exciting for their 2-year-old daughter Chloe. She refused to sit in her stroller or be held - she wanted to hold Heather's hand as she walked all over DCA, dressed as Mickey Mouse, and collecting ridiculous amounts of candy from cheerful cast members. Apparently, she's been scared by recent Nightmare Before Christmas TV commercials, so I read her the kids book before we left and gave her a bendy Jack to hold in the car. By the time we got to the park, she was saying "Hi, Jack!" to all of the people dressed as the character. We didn't do any attractions, but it really wasn't about grown-ups. In all, a mellow and satisfying Halloween.

Now that sounds like a great Halloween MP. Got any photos to share? I'm sure she looked cute as heck!

2 kids before I left to go help T & K.
Got home about 11:30 (the 22 is all fvckered up - ended up taking the 22 west to Magnolia then Magnolia to the 405).
Was tempted and taunted to go out to Sharkees in NB but that just wasn't happening. Too tired. Damn shame too cause my Jessica Rabbit dress was calling my name.

Many kids and a great haul for ours. I won't have to cook for a week. Plus, when we put half a big bowl out at 8:00 with a sign that said "Please take one," the bowl was immediately emptied. Terrible behavior to be sure, but it's good to have the stuff out of the house.

We had about 15 total. A far cry from the hundreds we had in Lakewood. (Last year, we went through 4 of those 105 piece bags.)

I love Bill dearly, but his genteel southern upbringing sometime leaves him clueless. The first time he answered the door last night, he held the bowl out to let them pick their own candy. One tweenie girl scooped up 2 big handsfull and fled. The look on Bills face was priceless!

I'm not sure I'd like to live off Halloween candy for an entire week.

Sounds like fun. :)

It was a great party except I kept getting pulled back into work all night.
But after a point, I couldn't keep going back in... Drunk Brads don't drive...

I couldn't make it down south to help Disneyphile move, either.

But the good news is is that my friend Jan is one of the best bakers ever.
The pumpkin pie she made was one of the best I've ever tasted.
:)

Hmmm, I didn't run into Cherny last night in WeHo.


I don't understand.



There were only an estimated 300,000 people there .... How could I have missed him?






What were you dressed (or undressed) as, Cherny???

no tricks
no treats
no kids
no adults
no candy

no monsters
no great pumpkin
no haunts
no frights
no carnivals
no parties

no nuthin

:(

how sad

Nor would I. That's why our neighborhood has signed a pact to pass out only raw veggies with a low glycemic load, tofu chunks, lowfat string cheese and pamphlets on world hunger. The kids love it. Just like they go crazy at birthday parties when somebody finally puts a crack in the piñata and the first brocolli florettes spill out for them to gather up and give to the poor.

:argghh: < Cap'n, the life of a pirate be a lonely life, it be.
:decap:

Oh, that reminds me that my grandma said some teenager came dressed as a naked man last night. I had to clarify that it was a costume and not someone showing up in the buff. Gotta love language barrier.

In other news, my thing at the Boys and Girls Club in Long Beach went really well. Kids seemed really happy and that's what it was all about. Of course, there were kids coming up to my Ring Toss station time and time again, so I had to become a "mean angel" and limit them to three attempts, because I was starting to blow through the candy like CRAZY.

Afterward, hanging out with NA & € was fun, especially trying to sneak into their house, blending in with the zombies outside so that they wouldn't realize we were there.

Sean of the Dead style?

aye, so it would seem

/sigh

I think we should have a LoT Zombie Party next year.
We'll all dress up as zombies and just wander the streets zombie style.
I think that would be fun.
A Zombie Swanking.
:)

Halloween is on a Friday next year!

So is July 4th for that matter...

Mine (November 27) falls on the same day of the week as Christmas and New Year's (technically, Christmas of one year and New Years of the next, but you get the point).

Had a lovely night, spent with Tom at Universal Studios. I haven't stayed up that late on a weeknight in years!

In front of the Bates house, Norman said to me: "You look like someone I could bring home to mother." Made my evening!

That is awesome!

Here are Heidi and Norman together, as recorded by me cell phone:

Niiiiice!

We spent the night at Haunt, giving candy to monsters- and seeing a guest so scared, she puked...

Pictures?

I didn't get any pictures, but we also saw an improv bit about Teletubbies porn.

Happy belated Halloween everyone! We just showed off Taylor in downtown Willow Glen, while the bigger kids were Trick or Treating. Taylor was a pink poodle. I will post some pictures asap.

That is SO AWESOME. I am totally jealous now. I want to go next year (but I can't)