Posted in Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged Charlie Brown, Cincinnati Strangler, Great Pumpkin, Halloween, Lucy, The Mummy, trick-or-treat, Wizard of Oz on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
The nice thing about having a nephew and niece eight and four years old is that I still have someone to trail around house-to-house on Halloween. I went trick-or-treating last night with the Hooligan children; their mother, Diamondqueen; and their father, TPM (short for That Poor Man).
We drove over to their Grandma’s neighborhood, just a [...]
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See the cute little boy in the Mickey Mouse costume in this post?
Here’s how he dressed for Halloween this year. (Yes, thank goodness, it IS a costume!)
Looking good, Biker Bro!
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In honor of Halloween, I posted a poem called “A Horror Story” here, where I explain the circumstances that inspired the piece.
On this blog I thought I’d post a couple more Halloween poems. Happy haunting, everyone!
TRICKS AND TREATS
AT SHORTY’S SALOON
A warped pumpkin face leered
from the ring-marred bar top.
We peered through eye holes
at an electric beer [...]
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Posted in Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged 1950s, 50s, beggar's night, craft project, Halloween, Mickey Mouse, tiger costume, vintage Halloween, vintage photos on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
My mother and I were talking over the weekend about what was my first Halloween costume. She said she thought it was the tiger suit she made for me (see photo above, circa 1958). I said I wondered if it was the Mickey Mouse costume my brother’s wearing in this same photo. I don’t remember actually dressing [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Needlework, hardanger, tagged 1950s, altered art, altered masks, banner, black cat, Cincinnati, East End, Halloween, hardanger, masks, memories, vintage Halloween, witch on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I was born in 1954, so my earliest Halloween memories come from that decade. We lived upstairs of Grandma and Grandpa in a small two-family house in the East End section of Cincinnati. The outside stairs that led to the door of our flat were too rickety to be climbed, so beggars (as they were often called [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, tagged crafts, decorative painting, foam pumpkins, Halloween, pumpkins, scottie, scotties, scotty, sheer aggravation on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Simulated pumpkins have been around for a few years now, but only recently did I realize you can actually carve them. The idea of a “permanent” jack-o-lantern doesn’t really appeal to me, and I adore real pumpkins; so I’ve been pretty lukewarm toward the proliferation of polyester pumpkins (or whatever they’re made out of).
This year, though, I’ve [...]
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As I mentioned in this post yesterday, my nephew, J.Hooligan, has a tendency to name things “Johnny” — such as my new car.
I discovered another example: My sister and the kids put up Halloween decorations last Friday, including three pairs of illuminated eyes that peer maliciously out of the shrubbery along the front porch.
Saturday I [...]
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