Hereās a version of Spooky Scary Skeletons I particularly like:
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Happy Nevada Day, yāall!
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And hereās a pre-Halloween event held yesterday . . .
Though they may just be Utahns dressed up as sheep.
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they used to herd cattle down Virginia Street here, past the casinos, during the annual rodeo ā iām not sure if they still do that or not, actually. Iāve lived here 30 years and iāve never been to the rodeo, either, but iām not a big rodeo fan.
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The Mad Doctor (1933)
Disney goes dark.
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Dark indeed. I tried watching that a few years ago. I could not make it through. Stopped when something bad was happening to Pluto, as I recall.
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Zero trick-or-treaters last night. I guess itās just not a thing anymore. We live in a neighborhood with lots of kids and a school just down the street, so itās not because weāre in some out of the way place. Kinda a relief, but also kinda sad.
I meant to stay up late watching horror movies and then reading my Stephen King book, but instead I fell asleep super-early. 
Woke up early this morning to a nice snowfall though.
Anyway, since Halloween itself kinda whiffed, Iām just going to keep on with my horror movie marathon tonight. Itās not the date that matters, itās the feeling.
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We didnāt have as many as usual but over a dozen, Iād say, counting each kid in a group. We once had about 40!
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In 23 years, we have never had a trick or treater, but we are in the country, and itās a long driveway, looks scary at night, and no kid is walking half a mile for a single house.
But, Iāve visited my folks on Halloween, and I do enjoy giving away candy. My mother does not cheap out, so all the kids stop at her house.
When we were kids, our house was in a lower income neighborhood, so I would visit a friend in the ritzy area for trick or treating. Her dad was a dentist.
In the many years since then, they built a lot of apartments down the road from my folksā neighborhood, many low income. So now, their house IS in the nice neighborhood to go for Halloween candy. The house is across the street from the elementary school, where my sister is a teacher, so everyone knows thatās where Grandma CleverEmi lives, and that she is nice and gives good candy.
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we had so many i lost count, but i bet it was easily 50 or more. last year we had a dozen, i think. This year i offered kids a choice between candy or a potato, and i almost ran out of potatoes.
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What do kids do with potatoes? I gather from tumblr that potatoes are a thing but I donāt get it
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i honestly donāt know what they do with them. i admit i was afraid to find a bunch of potatoes in the yard the next morning, but nope. in my head, they take them home and have their parents make hash browns out of them in the morning, haha.
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That would be a most excellent use of potatoes!
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all you really need is some hair spray in the pipe before you put in the potato and a hole covered in tape at the back until you stick a grill lighter in.
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The prequel.
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Opera (Dario Argento 1987)
Due to a fortuitous accident, young understudy Betty takes over the lead role in Verdiās opera Macbeth, winning for herself much acclaim and the attentions of a stalker who likes to tie her up and force her to watch the grisly slaughters of those close to her.
Quite possibly Argentoās last great film. Macbeth is staged with enough brio that it might be worth watching even without the bloodshed, but the killing sequences, in which Bettyās eyelids have needles taped to them to force her to watch, are some of Argentoās most grueling. Great use of swooping raven-cam as Argento pays homage to The Birds, with subtler Hitchcock references elsewhere. The musicās fun too, with synth works from Brian Eno and Claudio Simonetti, heavy metal from Steel Grave, and of course lots of Italian opera.
āI think itās unwise to use movies as a guide for reality. Donāt you, Inspector?ā
āDepends what you mean by reality.ā
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