Topic: SCARY HALLOWEEN NOTES (Read 4337 times)

bk · « **on:** October 31, 2020, 12:02:47 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were scary, and now it is time for you to post until the scary cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:03:25 AM »

And the word of the day is: ELDRITCH!

vixmom · « **Reply #2 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:07:07 AM »

First after BK

vixmom · « **Reply #3 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:07:29 AM »

Since I’m still up I will go to sleep maybe

vixmom · « **Reply #4 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:08:26 AM »

May e I’ll dream of old Halloween’s so I can answer the topic of the day

George · « **Reply #5 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:22:48 AM »

I hope you get some sleep, Vixmom!

George · « **Reply #6 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:25:12 AM »

Well, this is kinda funny...BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp May Not Be Able to Vote Due to Covid-19 Quarantine.

George · « **Reply #7 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:25:33 AM »

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kemp has now requested an absentee ballot since voting in person on Election Day would violate guidelines put out by the CDC, which is based in the state capitol. But for Kemp to be able to vote absentee, he would have to get his mailed ballot in the next few days, fill it out, and then return in to the election office by the time polls close at 7:00 p.m. EST next Tuesday — a highly unlikely scenario in such a short timespan.

George · « **Reply #8 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:49:20 AM »

Today, I'll be at my sister's helping put a new tarp on her daughter's chicken coop.

More than likely, I'll stay and hide out for the evening.

Have a good day, all!

bk · « **Reply #9 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:00:23 AM »

Finished uploading all Szell CDs and I've found a nice, sturdy shelf for the box. Whew!

bk · « **Reply #10 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:00:44 AM »

Now playing: Pictures at an Exhibition.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 31, 2020, 03:57:03 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 31, 2020, 03:58:02 AM »

I must pay a few bills this morning and get them into the afternoon's post.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 31, 2020, 04:05:47 AM »

Fifty-nine years ago, yesterday, 1961, my maternal grandmother died. It's my memory that Oct. 320, not the 31st, was trick or treat night, and it remains my most memorable Halloween.

My grandmother, whom I dearly loved and still miss far more than I miss my own mother, had been forced by her seven children into a nursing home after one too many diabetic comas. Before then, she had lived on and off with my family, and those of my Uncle Paul and my Aunts Dorothy and Lois; the other three children for various reasons refused to let her stay with them, but she lived with my family the most.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 31, 2020, 04:11:34 AM »

My memory is that she was living with us when she had her last diabetic coma. My brother Macbeth and I were in school, my mother was out - possibly one of her hypochondriac doctor visits - and the next door neighbor had come by for some reason and found my grandmother. After a family conference, my protesting grandmother, who wanted to return to her own home on Tenth Avenue and live alone, was enrolled in Garden Manor Nursing Home. I have no memory now of how long she was there, but I knew she was quite unhappy there. Some time around Oct. 24, 1961, she had a stroke, and the next week became a death watch held by my mother and her six siblings in rotation at the nursing home. Each night my mother fed us dinner, got into the car and drove to Garden Manor and sat with my grandmother from 7:00 to 11:00 or so.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 31, 2020, 04:22:03 AM »

On the night of Oct. 30, after dinner, my mother got into the car, drove out of our driveway, pulled back in, turned off the car, and walked back into the house. It's tonight, she told us. As she had pulled out of the driveway, she saw one of the neighbors' dogs sitting on top of its doghouse and baying at the moon. In 1948, on the day her father died in that house on Tenth Avenue, a dog sat on the lawn in front of the house and howled. Each time my father drove it away, it returned to continue howling.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 31, 2020, 04:27:16 AM »

Sure enough, my grandmother died that evening, and several of her children had visitations of her spirit. One day her rocking chair at my Aunt Ruth's house rocked all day, and other aunts and uncles claimed to have had feelings of her presence. In our home, between 1961 and 1979, when I moved to Manhattan, she was occasionally seen, and there were many nights I could feel someone sitting on the edge of my bed.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 31, 2020, 04:29:52 AM »

Last night I had a dream about the Macbeths and my father. I remember little about it now, but it involved a drive to Miami University and a stop at a Dairy Queen for an ice cream.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:04:07 AM »

Sean Connery has died. That saddens me. He will always be for me the only 007.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:14:03 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:15:08 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 31, 2020, 06:04:07 AM

Sean Connery has died. That saddens me. He will always be for me the only 007.

Damn it to hell.

Druxy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:18:01 AM »

SAD NEWS:

Sean Connery has died.

I had the pleasure of meeting Connery back in the late 1960s. My publicity client at the time, director Edward Dmytryk, threw a Christmas party and Connery was among the guests. They were about to go off to Spain to film , SHALAKO with Brigitte Bardot.

Druxy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:19:36 AM »

T.O.D.

I have no specific memories on Halloween...except going oit "Trick or Treating".

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:24:29 AM »

I have yet to get through TORA TORA TORA.

Actually, that’s not technically true. I went to see it with the parental units when it played the probably-magnificent International 70 in downtown Cincinnati while on a visit from school. I have almost no memory of it, not even whether I was interested in it or bored or something in between.

But the few times I’ve popped in the Blu-ray, I haven’t gotten far. I actually want to. It just hasn’t succeeded yet.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:30:13 AM »

It was 27 degrees out when I got up, and is supposedly getting into the mid-40s today. Thank goodness it’s sunny, because we’ll be out there for a while. Kristi is giving a reading of some Poe and a couple of other authors at one of the local libraries, outside and socially distanced.

singdaw · « **Reply #25 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:41:47 AM »

But is Hans Christian Anderson ever risqué?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #26 on:** October 31, 2020, 07:07:18 AM »

New Randy Rainbow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnca1VxL7eI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0hDrpbxdfXHK0n1ubEb9bzlivmIa_PYBmCJlRyJ7Y06IeVm8N1LCMEAwI

singdaw · « **Reply #27 on:** October 31, 2020, 07:16:35 AM »

Growing up near LA, we always had an outdoor costume parade at school. There are photos somewhere.

One year, I went as a giant bag of groceries. Another year, as a huge "package to Grandma."

singdaw · « **Reply #28 on:** October 31, 2020, 07:17:44 AM »

As much fun as the trick-or-treating was the aftermath, where you'd spread it all out, sort it, and engage in trading/bargaining.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 31, 2020, 07:17:44 AM »

Saturday, October 31, 2020.

We are living in the future!

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