I was in NYC for a conference this weekend. I spent Friday night at the Beacon theater doing the “I feel like a college kid again” thing — seeing Guster. My newly old boyfriend offered tickets to RAIN for Saturday night, and Igreedily took them excepted them. He wondered slightly …
Hooked on Tradition
The weather hovers between sultry and cold. There is a notable impatience while we wait for the season of sweaters and socks to firmly establish a presence. The month of considering the best horror movie ever made, or horror novel ever written, will soon be past. We shouldn’t let it …
Happy Halloween
Each night father fills me with dread As he sits at the foot of my bed I don’t mind that he speaks In gibbers and squeaks But for seventeen years he’s been dead. From The Listing Attic, Edward Gorey. Circa 1954. For some gory Gorey, see my Compulsions. Happy Halloween. …
Things That Go Bump in the Night, They Bite they Bite
We never really celebrated Halloween when I was a child, at least not the way it is done here. My love of the the frightening and the macabre came not from trick or treating and scary Halloween stories, but from literature. If you’ve been here awhile you know of my …
Old School Friday – Qu’est-ce que c’est?
Old School Friday and the Theme is not Halloween. Just under the wire here. The usual Friday night of dinner and wine with friends at a Lebanese restaurant, and the not so usual Friday night watching children trick or treat around the shopping center while looking on in amazement at …
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you
From make-up and corsets And black itchy fishnets And things that go hump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! Veering away from the villainous political theme which is exhausting most of us I started browsing through Deviant Art under the term “Halloween”. I was considering, momentarily at least, making …
