Halloween Blues

    I have the Halloween blues, this is my favorite time of the year and I have to study all week for a Calculus exam and a Spanish exam and i have no time to do all the things I love doing. I suppose that I am bummed because I have no time for a costume.  I work on Friday with a bunch of really creative people and everyone will look great. I am going as the panicky college student but I wanted to go as the Wasp Woman...

 It is a compelling story of science and self esteem gone wrong...I really feel a connection to this movie, and the mask made me crack up...But have no fear...the pumpkin and the horror movie orgy is still on.    

     

    I will also get to see my awesomely cute niece, Iris, in her costume. Talk about scary, she had the Heimlich maneuver performed on her at her daycare...she stuffed 3 plastic eyeballs in her mouth and choked...so truly frightening.

    

 

This is an old Halloween pic of her, there is nothing funnier than a kid crying in a Lobster suit. I carry this one in my wallet. 

I know this sounds dorky, but my expectations of Halloween never live up to reality...not since I was a kid, dressing up and going out into the chilly nite and begging strangers for candy, then came all the trading and hoarding of the candy. But I am not in it for the candy, I am in it for the thrills. I have always been a spooky person and I always will be...so there Derivatives of Logarithms and their Exponential Inverses....yeah...you can't take Halloween away from me! I think I will be watching Mad Monster Party, my good friend Shane gave me a copy.

It is the Citizen Kane of stop motion animation (if that is the name)...all I can say is go out right now, smoke about 3 spleefs and hold on for the ride of your life! Not quite as good as sex, but if you can manage to have sex while watching this, then please do, you won't regret it!

And of course I will watch Halloween...one of my faves. OOOhh it is midnite now...the witching hour and i am going to watch the 1920's Mexican version of Dracula...shot on the same lot and the                                                       classic...they shot the English version in the day, and the Mexican                                                       version at night.

                                                      

                                                      

   Okay, the Mexican Universal version of Dracula was awesome, I absolutely loved the set designs and the cinematography, sometime the most beautiful scenes are from creepy movies, it reminded me of the Val Lewton/ Jaques Tourneur classic, I Walked with a Zombie, so haunting and beautiful. I wished that I would have been able to get better scenes, but this one is cool.

Beardos

So this might seem a bit obvious, but I have noticed a rather large amount of dudes with beards, not that I have a problem with this, men are entitled to trends also. My Dad had a beard when I was growing up. When I was 12 he shaved it off and really freaked me and my brother out...Mr. All of the Sudden Stranger....it was really eerie. I also recall the "post shave shock" when I was dating a this guy named David, when I met him he had a devil beard and stache...after about a couple of months he showed up at my house shaved and all of those feelings of "wow! who the hell ARE you?" came back...he got angry and called me shallow for being freaked out, I calmly told him that it is not your face that is freaky, just the difference. So yeah maybe I am a little jealous that I can't be all mysterious and bearlike.

There are a lot of guys (like this one on my bus) who remind me of the "last days of Jim Morrison" Let's hope they are doing better than Jim:

I wonder how it all started and who is responsible: it can't be him:

He is too 70's. No, i think that it is someone more like Sam Beam, intense yet sensitive:

and yet still i think not!...there is only one who can have this much social impact, almost to the supernatural realm, yeah, you know who:




but i do not think he really looked like that, but more like this:

What a great role model, he was a rebel, wouldn't stone you for being a whore, turned water to wine....okay so it ended badly, but everyone knows who he is.

But I want to reiterate that this is in NO way a dis to beardos...i like beards, a lot of great men had and have beards, ummmm...like:

he reminds me of my Pop

and who can forget......a super wise and ancient beardo.

what about:
he gives gifts to all

and is loved by children These guys are cool, women go crazy bout' them.

This guy is NOT cool:




this guy could be cool, but his appetites consumed him:

this guy was a total dick face:

So I suppose you could say that it is not the beard that makes the man, its the man that makes the beard. Here's to you, beardos and to your whiskers that tickle my various body parts

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