HAPPY HALLOWEEN Everyone! My favorite memories of Halloween are: when I was a kid and putting on a costume and getting alot of candy. One of my friend's would have a party at her house every year, which was fun. The parties at school were nice. As an adult, I still love to dress up and decorate, and give out Good Candy. I watched all the scary movies too. I like the Freddy movies more than the Jason ones.

Nothing pointed, but general things like the look and smell of autumn, watching the yearly Charlie Brown Halloween special on TV and singing a particular Jack o'lantern song through grade school give me warm and fuzzies.

I've always been a bit of a shy type, too, so I recall with some amusement the odd exhileration/fear of walking out of my safe house on Halloween night into a veritable rush hour of costumed strangers. Cool times.

I swear I have far more fond Halloween memories, then even CHRISTMAS memories!

Halloween is just my favorite time of the year.

Making dummies out of the fallen leaves. Bobbing for apples. Its the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The generic plastic mask with matching costumes from when we were little. Egging peoples houses. Parades. Bonfires. Hayrides. Corn Mazes. Hot Chocolate. I could go on. Its THEE BEST!

Happy Halloween kiddies!!!!!!!

JerseyKRS said:

Happy Halloween kiddies!!!!!!!

Bully.

My first Halloween in Vancouver was awesome.

Stanley Park was covered by a natural mist which really added oomph to the already spooky Ghost Train.

A little boy came trick or treating dressed as a tiger and I said I wasn't sure if I was brave enough to give candy to a dangerous tiger and then he took off his mask, laughed loudly at my stupidity and said "I'm not a tiger, I'm a boy!". Too cute.

Playland had some great haunted mansions with overzealous but fun monsters running around and grabbing people.

Then we finished the night at a pub where all the adults with very adult costumes had squeezed in. Lots of sexy fun all night long.

Halloween has been my favorite holiday since I was a child. The little suburb I grew up in calls itself the Halloween Capital of the World () and as a child I thought that was a REALLY big deal.

Each year we’d dress up for school on Halloween day (or the Friday before if it occurred on a weekend) and all the elementary school students would parade down main street along with the jr high and high school marching bands.

Then there would be a BIG parade the Saturday before or after and it would include everything a normal parade does. And you would buy buttons each year – always with a new design by a local artist.

And THEN you’d get to go trick or treating in your own neighborhood. It seemed like it went on forever!

Lammastide said:

JerseyKRS said:

Happy Halloween kiddies!!!!!!!

Bully.

I remember when I was four, I was wonder woman. Remember the plastic costumes you could get at the grocery store with the paper thin masks? Yeah, that was my costume! But you couldn't tell me shit!!!!

Anyway, my little greedy ass took my candy and sat in my closet and ate my stash!! All of it! Dad only took me up and down the street, but it was enough!

Well I threw up all my candy all over myself that night! What I get for being GREEDY!

TotalANXiousNESS said:

I swear I have far more fond Halloween memories, then even CHRISTMAS memories!

Halloween is just my favorite time of the year.

Making dummies out of the fallen leaves. Bobbing for apples. Its the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The generic plastic mask with matching costumes from when we were little. Egging peoples houses. Parades. Bonfires. Hayrides. Corn Mazes. Hot Chocolate. I could go on. Its THEE BEST!

Me too!!!!!

Junior year of high school I was Michael Myers. I had bought a fan made mask online instead of the crappy ones in the stores. I walked around school slower than usual and didn't say a word all day. It creeped everyone the fuck out

TotalANXiousNESS said:

I swear I have far more fond Halloween memories, then even CHRISTMAS memories!

Halloween is just my favorite time of the year.

Making dummies out of the fallen leaves. Bobbing for apples. Its the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The generic plastic mask with matching costumes from when we were little. Egging peoples houses. Parades. Bonfires. Hayrides. Corn Mazes. Hot Chocolate. I could go on. Its THEE BEST!

Now that I think about it, Halloween was always better. My mom CONSISTENTLY would start shit, start an ugly argument, throw a tantrum, etc, and I would be in my room bawling my eyes out every Chirstmas season. The heiffer's claws would come out FULL FORCE at the holidays. Which is why I don't go home for the holidays.

So yeah, Halloween has FAR better memeories for me! And it's so FUN! I dress in about three costumes per Halloween!

KatSkrizzle said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

I swear I have far more fond Halloween memories, then even CHRISTMAS memories!

Halloween is just my favorite time of the year.

Making dummies out of the fallen leaves. Bobbing for apples. Its the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The generic plastic mask with matching costumes from when we were little. Egging peoples houses. Parades. Bonfires. Hayrides. Corn Mazes. Hot Chocolate. I could go on. Its THEE BEST!

Now that I think about it, Halloween was always better. My mom CONSISTENTLY would start shit, start an ugly argument, throw a tantrum, etc, and I would be in my room bawling my eyes out every Chirstmas season. The heiffer's claws would come out FULL FORCE at the holidays. Which is why I don't go home for the holidays.

So yeah, Halloween has FAR better memeories for me! And it's so FUN! I dress in about three costumes per Halloween!

What is up with that??? I think a lot of people actually do that. WTF?

TotalANXiousNESS said:

KatSkrizzle said:

Now that I think about it, Halloween was always better. My mom CONSISTENTLY would start shit, start an ugly argument, throw a tantrum, etc, and I would be in my room bawling my eyes out every Chirstmas season. The heiffer's claws would come out FULL FORCE at the holidays. Which is why I don't go home for the holidays.

So yeah, Halloween has FAR better memeories for me! And it's so FUN! I dress in about three costumes per Halloween!

What is up with that??? I think a lot of people actually do that. WTF?

So many people, so many egos. As an adult I see my mother for who she is. She just likes to start shit. There's a lot of people like her walking this earth. But I pretty much just stay out her way, and when she starts to show her butt I leave.

And I'll just keep enjoying my beautiful autumn!

two memorable occasions..

first in 1993..atmospherem trick n treat then horror marathon on tv, oh and the infamous Ghost watch on the bbc.

last year...met and had a conversation with John Landis. I was in my freddy kruiger costume and High off my head!!

I remember always splitting the ass on those plastic costumes that came with a mask because I was a chubby-ass (fat) kid.

1992, 93 & 94 - going to raves in SF, consuming copious amounts of LSD and getting completely lost in the other worlds created by the party and it's attendees. Admittedly, not THAT much different than any other week/end from late 1991 to the middle of 1995. But the decorations and costumes were even more intense around Halloween. One of those years, either 93 or 94 (I know it was at 1015 Folsom), I remember there being some particularly good batches going around and after the party ended most people weren't really "ready to leave" yet. So you've got a few hundred people wandering around a completely disserted SOMA district (pre-gentrification) wearing costumes in the cold grey morning like zombies. The dark patches under their eyes possibly makeup, possibly not. Other than not being able to remember the year , it's one of my most vivid "club days" memories (a lot of them have kind of blurred into one giant shared memory), and one of my only adult Halloween memories.

johnart said:

I remember always splitting the ass on those plastic costumes that came with a mask because I was a chubby-ass (fat) kid.

You are so damn awesome!!! those fake ass cosutmes! One size fits all my ass!

When I was 4 I went as a bunny, a really cool costume better made than most current costumes. I was to cute-but I didn't want to be cute-I just wanted to be a bunny. ( I guess you could say it was method acting) Heck, I even squeezed into it for the next year.

Chas Budnick's halloween party. Pre-K. 1985. His dad told a story sittin on a trunk. Then one of the other dads popped out of the trunk covered in an afghan. Punch first, ask questions later. Four year old Doron punched him inna dick. My mom was embarrassed. My dad apologized and congratulated me later.

It wasn't the last time I punched a grown up in the dick that year.