Pages Tagged “Halloween”
Les Misérables
- Creeping Around the Garden Someone is stalking Cosette, watching her window and following her in the garden. Fortunately, it turns out to be Marius, so everything's okay!
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- Halloween, the TL;DR Edition
Oddly quiet night here. Big change from last year when everyone seemed to be going all-out because they finally felt like they could.
- Been Waiting a While?
Saw this while out walking this morning. I guess holiday decorations can last as long as you want them to!
- Halloween with a Vengeance
I could not believe how many kids were out trick-or-treating in our neighborhood this year. Or how many households were handing out candy. There were more kids even than a normal Halloween, through fewer houses active than usual. We weren’t even sure of our plans as late as Sunday afternoon. We’d carved pumpkins on Saturday, […]
- Pokemon Pumpkin Parade
We went with a Pokemon theme again for this year’s Jack-O’Lanterns.
- What Lies Beneath
If you’re stuck with plumbers digging up your dining room floor a few days before Halloween…you might as well make the most of it!
- Oh, Hi There!
Saw this while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
- Distant Halloween
Halloween was weird this year. OK, everything has been weird this year. I mean, I’ve been in the same place as my parents only once since…February? January? I forget. We stood out in their front yard one evening this summer, 10 feet apart, talking for about an hour. Hooray for living in a time when […]
- Pokemon Pumpkins
Patterns found online and carved by the mom-and-son team.
- Ant-Man Approves of this Jack O’Lantern
The kiddo managed to get another Halloween out of last year’s homemade Minecraft Spider Jockey costume. But it’s not easy to run around and play in, so we offered to buy him an alternate for parties, and he chose Ant-Man. Curiously, the costume didn’t come with gloves, so Katie took a pair of plain black […]
- A Minecraft Halloween
Homemade spider jockey costume (a composite Minecraft monster consisting of a skeleton archer riding a giant spider). Kid-sized, built by Katie (I assisted, mainly with painting, but the design, planning, and most of the construction was her). Mostly cardboard, covered with paper to smooth it out and provide a painting surface. Heavy fabric and dowels […]
- Spooky Tree / Halloween
For Halloween, enjoy this spooky tree at Madrona Marsh. Our neighborhood saw a lot more trick-or-treaters tonight than we have in years. By 8:00 kids were walking back to the sidewalk from our door shouting to their friends, “Hey, they still have candy!” It was pure chance that I bought extra this afternoon, and I’m […]
- Teal Pumpkins Go Retail
Cool: Michael’s is selling plastic teal pumpkins for people who plan on offering non-food treats for allergic trick or treaters as part of the Teal Pumpkin Project. You can still paint a pumpkin teal, of course, but this simplifies the setup. (Are we really that close to Halloween already?)
- Mixed Emotions / Halloween / Comikaze
I haven’t been to Comikaze Expo since their first year. It’s always been close to Long Beach Comic-Con, and I’d choose Long Beach every time. This year, though, LBCC was in mid-September, and Comikaze was Halloween weekend. And since we missed out on San Diego, it seemed like a good plan for a family comic-con. […]
- Christmas vs Halloween: The Battle Continues
Christmas strikes deeper into Halloween’s territory, continuing a relentless campaign that began decades ago in response to a 1993 incursion from Halloween Town. In recent years, Halloween has shored up its position by moving into previously unclaimed parts of the calendar in early October and September, itself running roughshod over tentative efforts by Oktoberfest to […]
- Hanging around the beach after a Halloween storm
A few scenic photos from the aftermath of the season’s first rainstorm…and the aftermath of Halloween.
- A Teal Pumpkin for Halloween
The idea behind the Teal Pumpkin Project is to offer alternate Halloween treats that aren’t candy, so that kids with severe food allergies can still go Trick-or-Treating. It started last year in Tennessee, and FARE picked it up and promoted it nationwide this year. When I was a child, I always had to either decline […]
- Grinning Jack-O-Lantern
A photo from last year’s Halloween.
- Backlit Tree in Fog (Photo)
A spooky backlit tree in fog. One of those rare instances when Kelvin makes a photo better.
- No Soliciting Zombies
I’m not sure that’s what the signs on this door are trying to say about zombie solicitors.
- Hallo!
“Did you say Hello?” “No, I said Hallo, but that’s close enough.”
- Holiday Creep at Costco
Photo: It’s barely October, and Costco already has ten times as much Christmas stuff as Halloween. And that’s not counting the vastly expanded toy section.
- Scarriest Place on Earth?
Wait, the Happiest Place on Earth got…Scarrier? Disneyland really needs a proofreader (a proffreader?) for their Halloween parking signs.
- Long Beach Comic and Horror Con 2011: Still Got It
A day at LBCC: costume-watching, cheesy vintage horror comics performed on stage, meeting writers and artists, discovering webcomics, and–hotel rappelling?
- Holiday Creep(y)
One nice thing about The Nightmare Before Christmas is that it’s good for anytime from October through December!
- Skull Pumpkin & Vampire Halloween
Katie carved this incredible anatomically-correct skull Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween today. Update: Check the comments for her writeup on how she carved it. It seems to have worked as a “yes, we’re handing out candy” signal. Last year we didn’t get any trick-or-treaters. (We also didn’t put up any decorations that year, either.) This year, they […]
- Geeky Pumpkins of Halloweens Past
I’m not much of a pumpkin carver myself, but Katie likes to get creative. Here are some Jack-O-Lanterns she’s done, inspired by science fiction, fantasy, comics and games. From 2003… Gourdzilla! Inspired by a Grand Ave. strip earlier that week. Also, Aeryn Sun from Farscape! More about these: 2003 Halloween Madness From 2005… Puzzle Pirates’ […]
- Errand Observations
The Spectrum food court has ripped out the planters. I guess they realized they needed the floor space after they chopped off one end. It’s Halloween, so Target has the Christmas decorations up!
- Great Park, Great Pumpkin
The Great Park Balloon in Irvine, California, all dressed up as a Jack-o-Lantern for Halloween. I was hoping to get a shot of it aloft, but it landed as I approached the park. It looks really eerie lit up at night, floating off in the distance. Or just floating above office buildings. It’s not as […]
- Vampire Castle
Castle as a “space cowboy” – “Didn’t you wear that, like, 5 years ago?” They so should have called this episode “Castle-vania!”
- Nightmare Before Christmas: 3-D Edition
This weekend we went out to see The Prestige, which was quite good. The next theater over was running The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D, and we figured, what the heck? After the first movie, we got tickets for another. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies, but for some reason the […]
- Pumpkin Patch Day
Well, it’s the second Tuesday of the month. With Microsoft’s regular update cycle, that makes it Patch Tuesday. It’s also October, the month leading up to Halloween. I hereby declare today to be Pumpkin Patch Tuesday.
- Pumpkin arrrrrrrt
I love carving jack-o-lanterns. These days, though, I don’t have much motivation to do one unless there’s a prize involved. So when I saw that someone on Puzzle Pirates was holding a contest for piratey-themed pumpkin carving, I jumped on it. This is my rendition of the navigation puzzle from the game, and my first-ever […]
- Christmas Gets Earlier Every Year
I dropped into Sav-on briefly today. Among other things I wanted to top off the supply of Halloween candy for Monday. Imagine my surprise to find that Halloween was crammed into half an aisle, and there were two aisles of Christmas already. (You may notice that the sign above this one doesn’t say “Seasonal” or […]
- Halloween madness
So work decided to do Halloween on the 30th rather than the 31st because some people don’t work Fridays. This was a good thing, considering that we have not only a potluck but also a costume contest and a pumpkin-carving contest all on the same day and I have a finite amount of time after […]