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- 10/31
- the mummy just wants respect
- autobiographical
- speechless
- isaac asimov quote
- zombie tomato
- crappy halloween costume from a discount store
- circus peanut
- condensed cream of blob soup
- stuff that scared me when I was very young
- sarah palin on line one
- the mrs defillo report for 10/20
- doodle diary 10/19
- neighborhood ghosts
- candy corn sucks
- it's time
- autobiographical
- agreed
- if my cats were human
- post-it skulls
- doodle diary 10/11
- porch pumpkin
- a message from black kittens everywhere
- autobiographical
- elizabeth berg quote
- nosebleed girl's first halloween
- mrs defillo dispatch for 10/5
- armless farm boy 10/4
- boo!
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9 comments:
The part about the cartoon character/superhero having peaked was classic.
I look at halloween from the child's perspective... for the great majority of children, it is fun and they tend to enjoy the time. I do get weirded out by adults who get 'awkwardly into it', with their poor costume choices and ill-concived designs for their house. Not to mention the worse treats ever.
Then there are those anti-halloween crusaders... no matter what angle they are coming from. Heathen excerise in celebrating a pagan holiday (ssh! Don't tell them about all the holy days that were created to supplant pagan holidays so that Christianity could convert and elimate 'pagan' faiths) or being a grouch about having to put up with their kids in public.
Oh, I could keep going, but this is a good place to stop!
I think I already mentioned on C's blog that these cheapy costumes always look like a Helen Keller with Parkinson's made them.
I'd love to know what kind of costumes you wore as a child. I was a snow leopard of the Himalayas one year. Obviously homemade. Dad had a great imagination. ~Mary oxoxo
I thought I wanted a store bought costume when I was a kid; the one time I got one, the mask made me crazy. Great description!
You described every little detail very well.
Never had a store bought costume but they do feel funny. Greasy. The little kids are so cute in them, though. Costumes I've made my kid in the past: leaf pile crawling with bugs & snakes; bat; Terminix man being devoured by bugs (revenge!); medieval archer; Sir Ector from Monty Python & the Holy Grail; lobster. We love Halloween :) Cin
description spot~on!
the only part of the one store~bought pre~fabbed custom i ever had was the hard plastic mask with the elastic string...the inside of it smelled, but i tried to be grateful and appreciative, cuz mom spent money on it.
The saddest thing about wearing this costume? Having to save it for the next year! :)
I am sure we have all worn the costume at some point in time :o)
your memory is spot ON!
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