Tag: halloween

Here’s a multi-purpose video, appropriate for Halloween, but also for many other occasions and purposes.  It’s a suspenseful, but entertaining love story, complete with the requisite dark and stormy night, fashion and home decorating ideas, song and dance, a rags to riches tribute to Horatio Alger, and a reminder to atone for the excesses of this weekend, beginning on Monday (serving as a valuable trial run for your upcoming New Year’s resolutions).  

If you enjoyed Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, you will surely want to check out K. T. Oslin’s performance in the following…

It’s a night for vampires!

For your thoughts on Samhein

Prof. Johnathan Turley has a great blog.  This story is not only seasonal, but, instructive as well!

Maryland police Sgt. Eric Janik, 37, may not get the thrust of trick of treat traditions. The Baltimore police office went to a haunted house called the House of Screams with friends and when confronted by a character dressed as Leatherface with a chainsaw (sans the chain, of course), Janik pulled out his service weapon and pointed it at the man, who immediately dropped character, dropped the chainsaw, and ran like a bat out of Halloween Hell.

HEADLINE: Cop scares ghoul on Halloween!

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 As many of you know, I have this, uh, background with and in Japan.  I sort of talk about it here and there, but rarely shout about it.  I did a few weeks ago here, when I notified all that I’ve organized a group trip to Kyoto for this coming April and today, I’m doing it again by telling you about the new post/story I’ve put up on my blog, LetsJapan.Wordpress.Com

 It’s a spooky story of which I speak/blog, to wit Creepy Japan:  Happy Halloween Week:

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 For the unacquainted, you’ll get a little background, a taste, of the bizarre and spooky that goes way back in Japanese history (theater and art, too).  And, if you like, you can see some old and new Uncanny Things I’ve stumbled upon there.

 Enjoy.

 Mu . . .

see also:  

Pony Party: Halloween Music Videos

Punkin Pony Party

Pooties and Puppies from SFGate’s Pets In Costume Gallery

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Imagine there was a beautiful planet.

Imagine it was inhabited by billions of sentient beings.

Imagine the most technologically advanced of those beings was in the process of poisoning that planet for everyone.

Imagine that all life was at risk.

Imagine that those most technologically advanced beings were, as T.S. Eliot once put it, too

distracted from distraction by distraction

to do anything about it.

Imagine those most technologically advanced beings were even putting the survival of their own species at risk.

Imagine time was running out.

Imagine those most technologically advanced beings were actually making things worse, not better.

Imagine.

The horror.