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Halloween-y goodness:

 

Our neighborhood always gets a hojillion trick-or-treaters, and it's awesome. Here are some of the standouts from this year:


Zombie cheerleader!

Wee baby pirate - like, 6 mos old - on zombie dad's shoulders

Several awesome lady vampires

Darth Vader WITH THE BREATHING

Boba Fett

So many little Marios! Plus one accompanying mama wearing a mustache :)

Pippi Longstocking!

 

We went Hershey- and Nestle-free this Halloween. I didn't have time to plan very well, so this pretty much left us with Skittles, Starburst, and Tootsie Pops. As is our custom, people who amused, entertained, or unnerved us got extra cool treats - gummy body parts or candy skeletons. 

 

WTF of the night - a wee black girl, no more than 8, dressed as a convict. Except with black and pink stripes instead of black and white. And sequins. 


….

 

Really, costume company? REALLY? You think that's okay? And really, mom? You're going to allow that? Yeesh.

 

We are Family moment #1 - An adorable teenage boy wearing street clothes, lip gloss, and a tiara. I told him he got an extra gummy brain for gender-bending, and he was all, "AWESOME." I'll save a place for you at Pride, honey.

 

We are Family moment #2, slightly creepy - An adorable teenage boy dressed as a sexy construction worker. Seriously. Strategic shirt tears and all. Definitely saving him a spot at Pride, but a little sad at his self-objectification with a whiff of classism.

 

Fucking rad motif - Young people of color in superhero costumes! So many adorable wee folks of all ethnicities as Superman, Batman, Spider Man, Wonder Woman… Awesome! All those annoying fanboys who freaked out over the new biracial Spider Man can suck it! 

 

Sort of encouraging but still disturbing motif - So many young girls of color wearing generic princess or Disney princess costumes. I mean, hooray for being all, fuck white normativity, my kid can totes be a mainstream media character! But sad face that what they chose was so retrograde. 

 

Today's reason why I <3 my partner:



Our current TV project is the X-Files. I never watched much of it, so most of it is new to me. We're watching an episode where a central operating system in a building may have killed a dude, and I said, "I'm waiting for someone to say, 'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.'" And my partner said, "If I were writing an episode like this, I would have humans saying that line all the time, and then at the end, a computer would say, 'THAT'S NOT FUNNY.'"



<3 <3 <3

 

 

merielle: purple passiflora on a barbed wire fence (Default)
[Partner and I discussing shirts. For the last week or so we have been watching the Harry Potter movies to prepare for the upcoming final installment in the series.]

Partner: I find I like the darker colors lately. Dark like Harry Potter's soul.
Me: Sure. You're thematic.
Him: Right.
Me: Dark like George RR Martin's world.
Him: Yes. When you play the game of shirts, you win, or you... have an ill-fitting shirt.
Me: Which is not death, but is often itchy and uncomfortable.
Him: Yes. A Song of Itch and Attire.

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merielle: purple passiflora on a barbed wire fence (Default)
SCENE: Playing Panic! at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon" in Rock Band in our family room

The Fella: "What the hell is this song about, anyway?"
Me: "I don't know. It's Panic! at the Disco. Maybe it's about drugs. Or love. Or chickens. Or druggy love chickens."
The Fella: "I think Druggy Love Chickens should be our Panic! at the Disco cover band."

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merielle: purple passiflora on a barbed wire fence (Default)
Me, regarding a character on a show behaving oddly: "What's wrong with him?!"
Partner: "I have to assume he has some sort of plot point attacking him."

<3 <3 <3
merielle: purple passiflora on a barbed wire fence (Default)
SCENE - early morning, the day after a cold front has come through. I've gotten up to go to the bathroom and am returning to bed.

The boy, still in bed: "Can you please stop and check the thermostat? It's freezing in here!"
Me: "Yeah, it is. *fiddles with thermostat* Well, that's because we had it set to cool, not heat."
Him: *pause* "Are you sure we didn't have it set to 'comical Batman villain?'"

<3 <3 <3

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