ghost stories
G: On Friday Lori and I went
down to the town center, the Youth Center specifically, to see Rich do
a show for the kids for the town's Halloween costume parade and
gathering. We had candy forced on us by evil women, and enjoyed Rich's
juggling comedy show. Then we helped him pack up.
Later Rich came with me over to a gathering Prisca was having at her
new digs across the street from us. She moved in with her co-worker
Kristen from the New Deal. There weren't a lot of people there but we
had a nice time pigging out on party food and drink, chatting, and
petting the kitty cat. Lori and Laura came for a little while. John
showed up late after attending a charity poker tournament. He didn't
win.
Saturday I donned my rock star outfit once again (like I had worn at
our last party) for the Dan Hart performance and costume party/contest
at the New Deal. Dan had a great old hippie costume. His wife
exaggerated things about herself for a costume: a graduate student with
coffee mug, glasses, and a book bag full of books. There were some
other hippie costumes there, and a few others like the McFarb family
made up of Zorro, a seventies movie star, Thing 3, and Red Mighty
Morphing Power Ranger. John came in a while after the show started, and
he was striking! People applauded his arrival, and he took a bow.
There was a costume contest which was run fairly randomly, by applause
and Richard McMullin's vague sense of whatever. When it was John's turn
to explain who he was, he said he was the entire European (music)
invasion. I said I was Kiki from Kiki and the Doos and I loved to ROCK
AND ROLL! I fake played my real, borrowed from Sev, electric (not
plugged in) guitar. There were four gift certificates to the New Deal,
and I was surprised that I got the last one - first place! $20!
Although I was uncertain if the applause was really meant for me or for
John, standing right behind me. I mean, he looked amazing.
On Sunday I gussied up again for Alex and Renee's Halloween Dance
night. Izolda and I were the first to arrive and we helped set up some
food and stuff. Alex got this tiered punch fountain that bubbled out at
the top and lit up. He put electric glowing fake ice cubes in it and
added dry ice throughout the evening. It was so cool!
There were a lot of great costumes there. I brought alternate clothes
in case it got too hot dancing, but it was cold enough outside that the
ballroom didn't get unbearably hot and I kept my costume, wig and all,
on all night. I did a lot of hamming with the guitar and won THAT
costume contest as well. I won the stuff that I had already picked out
from Alex and Renee's yard sale offerings that I hadn't paid them for
yet. I got some clothing and some costume jewelry. It was a lot
of fun.
For Halloween I went over to Dorian and Amethyst's to help them scare
the trick or treaters. I basically donned a bunch of black clothing
with a cape, painted my face gray and splotchy, put in some nasty
fake teeth, and had fake blood dripping from my eyes and mouth. I must
say I looked quite hideous. I would stand near their walkway and stare
at people, then point them towards the house with a skeleton hand. Lori
was dressed in robes and went out even further away to lure people
toward the hose. Amethyst wore her evil dead dog costume and its is
really cool. She can really howl and it was great the way she would
howl "Happy HAlloweeeeeen!" Dorian gave out the candy looking like
Dracula. Jsun was another scary character, they had a couple of kids
jumping out and grabbing at the visitors, and Bryan growled through the
kitchen window. They had this amazing scary soundtrack with screams,
howls, heartbeats, the works. Traffic was light, however, there was one
humongous group of probably about 20 kids, many of whom were screaming
bloody murder at just the sight of the place and us. They all managed
to get to the door for some candy, though, and nearly cleaned the place
out.
After the trick or treating was over we danced to the Monster Mash and
other Halloweenie tunes. Then we settled in for some scary story
telling. Many people dropped by over the course of the evening and told
their scary or supernatural stories. It was a lot of fun.
toward a new mnemonic
I before E except after C
and in words having ay such as neighbor and weigh...
or words that have teeth as in Sheila or Keith.
Other words feared are foreign and weird,
and some of us hate counterfeit freight.
We might shiver at leisure with apneic seizure
should we get rather careless with geisha or heiress,
or seismically quake at a sovereign sheik—
or disregard either, or theirs, or neither.
And it's right to arrange (albeit quite strange)
the I after E in simultaneity.
For the forfeited form of the reified "norm"
is heisted full well by a chaotic spell
when E, rules deserted, is thus preinserted.
So drink your caffeine, surfeit the protein,
but I inveigle you please mind the I's and the E's.
For once you have scaled what is herein unveiled,
and your pen by all rights reaches deific heights,
then your readers will seize from your eidetic ease
that your spelling is fine - good going, einstein!
:-j
GINOHNNEWS
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