To the heathens (selves included)!:
Happy Hella Halloween.
Welcome to The HOchieS' 666th blog post on this fine 2008 October 31st Night.
Spooky soul filled pumpkins and scarier than jeeper creeper scarecrows (thanks for wasting some of my life, H1) play tricks, screech and make merry this Halloween.
It's cold, the wind has been gusting for most of the week and the leaves have been doing some sort of insane dancing as they fly away from the trees and twirl around trick or treaters' feet.
So as to not break with HOchie tradition, let us begin the all-awesome, Grading of Kids' Costumes!
As per usual, we start with the house. We actually decorated this year and even carved a pumpkin, with Or 2's own pure skill and design. Heh. Never you mind you may have seen that Goblin in your own Master Pumpkin Carvers' Kit!
Ignore the mould. I carved it too soon before Halloween and it eventually caved in by the time today came around, so I didn't get to take a good picture of it either. Lame.
As for our costumes, we get A - s.
I was my cutie boy Allen Walker-desu. It was okay but I didn't have time to make a Crown Clown arm.
H1 was a bar maid but I don't recall her trying to give me any beer so maybe she should get an F!
Luuuuiiisss was the Operation Guy, which is damned hilarious.
And Boobey Head was a sensei. A bitchy ass, bandera wearing Yakuza or H1's Sensei.
So far, I've been pretty impressed by some of the kids that have come through.
There are lots of B+s, a few Ds and a handful of F--s but mostly, they've really put some good work into their costumes this year.
Devil Fairies abound which made me very pleased to see. There were a few princesses who were anything but, a scary life-sized tubby Chucky, Leonardo the Ninja Turtle, and an A+ to the kid who came around in her self-made Ipod costume complete with robot-synth voice over.
We didn't get as many kids as in previous years with just 64 and one 65th straggler who got no candy from us for being out so damned late but times are tough! They're lucky they even got candy from me. Actually, they have Beetchie to thank for getting candy.
It's the last day of October, the last day of Birthday Month for Or 2, and we're nervous for next week's Presidential Election but we'll just have to wait and see and hope to not cry on Wednesday.
Here are some October highlights we may have missed:
Happy Divali (on the 29th)!
Clownie bought us Indian treats, and we ate them at Alex's desk while playing "Bole Chudiyan" and "Say Shava Shava". At work. Yes.
I didn't actually forget to blog about this but since I was putting off blogging, Frass' Birthday got priority over Divali. I don't know why I'd do that to my Indian brethren either but really, since they aren't trying to give me sweets and there's a chance Frass might bring me some from London, I'm being nice. Of course, it could be that he totally didn't see how awesome The HochieS were to him and has not been guilted into getting us candy.
Domo-Kun at Target?! Umm, Beetchie's brother Z., is that what you were marketing our cubey friend for?! What kind of shart is that??!!!!!
He is awfully cute though... but I'm not sure Americans understand him but in fairness, there's not much to understand to begin with. Gotta love the Japanese and Domo-Kun. I'm just thankful I got a domo cube of my own before this shart came this way.
Halloween themed candied apples:
Awesome white pumpkins at the Halloween Blaze:
Apple and Pumpkin Picking Photos:
Including Smoked Turkey legs and the hardcore kid who made them.
Bitchy ass ducks that didn't show me their asses? That's certainly surprising.
That time we went also brings back horrid memories of being jipped by a bunch of people who stole Paul Deen's recipe for pumpkin squares and stuck it on a graham cracker crust and called it cheesecake. And to think, I was wondering why the filling taste was so familiar and only after I spent 12 dollars on an effin' small cheesecake did I realise that H1 makes these for me all the time except as squares.
Wrong Story of the Day:
The Halloween 2008 Blog Lay Out:
Currently listening to: "The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden; "Halloween" by Shinobu Tanaka, from the Animal Crossing Original Soundtrack; "Spooks of Halloween Town" by Yoko Shimomura, from the
Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack; and of course "This is Halloween" by Danny Elfman, from
The Nightmare Before Christmas Original Soundtrack.
