Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloweenie


Everybody loves to say they have a claim to fame or at least a rubbing of elbows with those in the spotlight. This being the Halos of eve and all such was not the case but I did have the momentary run in or should I say more like a passing of ships when they made this horror flick. Have to remove some cobwebs from the gray matter to recall the details. I was working on assignment in San Bernardino, Cal while the cast and crew were staying at the same motel. I saw very little of the cast as they were shooting a dracula shift (sundown to sun up) but on my days off they would gather up their cameras and crew out front around 4 in the afternoon to head to location. I never did see Linda Blair but was later told she was surrounded at the pool by adoring fans and looky lous. But I'm sure she'd love to erase this flick from her list of credits as her reward was a Razzie.

What ever happened to Halloween? Used to be a kids delight to turn an orange squash into a scary jack-o-lantern, get dressed up as a monster or pirate and try and scare the bejeesus out of younger siblings. The smell of burn pumpkin and a pillow case full of treats were a kids' valhalla. I think I've only seen one or two trick or treaters in the past ten years or so. Who got the most chocolate bars was always the contest. Some cheap skate would give away three pennys tied in a napkin. And watch out for old man Barnes as he was trying to give away some stale easter candy he got from the grandkids.

It was a dark and stormy day soon to be followed by a dark and stormy night. Better head to the store just in case. I'm always a a sucker for chocolate so all won't be a total loss.

And now for that scare that was promised in an earlier post which goes something like this:

"Ladies and gentlemen it gives us great pleasure to announce the 45th president of the United States...


Mitt Romney!"

Okay you can all wake up now it was only a republican wet dream. See I knew I could scare you.

9 comments:

MRMacrum said...

That scare might have worked on me a couple of months ago, but now I am too numb to be affected. My sensibilities have been cauterized by the 24/7 bombardment of political ads. Please make it stop.

A better scare would have been to try and convince me this campaign was never going to stop. That some how we were now trapped into a cycle of time ala "Ground Hog Day".

The Blog Fodder said...

MRM, you have the right idea. That WOULD be torture. Like being tied to a chair and forced to listen to Howard Cosell for 24 hours a day.

BBC said...

I never got into watching horror flicks, thought they were stupid.

Halloween isn't part of my religion, and teaching little kids greed isn't my style anymore, it'll be nice and quite here.

S.W. Anderson said...

We usually get a nice bunch of kids, mostly accompanied by parents, which is good. I think it's a nice, fun tradition.

After about 8:30, though, we're usually ready to shut it down. Seems as though the very few kids who come along after that are older, not in costumes and not always so nice.

Re: Romney. I hope with all my might a large plurality of voters lets him know what they think of someone who feels it's OK to lie to them constantly. That would be his worst nightmare come true, and the truth would hurt him. Justice done.

S.W. Anderson said...

We usually get a nice bunch of kids, mostly accompanied by parents, which is good. I think it's a nice, fun tradition.

After about 8:30, though, we're usually ready to shut it down. Seems as though the very few kids who come along after that are older, not in costumes and not always so nice.

Re: Romney. I hope with all my might a large plurality of voters lets him know what they think of someone who feels it's OK to lie to them constantly. That would be his worst nightmare come true, and the truth would hurt him. Justice done.

Roger Owen Green said...

Actually, the number of kids and the amount of candy was almost perfect, when we took down the ghost on the window and turned off the porch light at 8:30.

And DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!

Demeur said...

Parents here are too afraid to send their kids out anymore, too many registered sex offenders and they're listed on line. Didn't even bother to buy a bag of candy for the urchins.

Randal Graves said...

Kids are wimps these days. We used to eat the candy and spit out the razor blades and acid tabs, then eat some more.

Demeur said...

Randal anybody tough enough to eat a Lake Erie trout can handle anything.