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[jackshoegazer]

To quote Arthur Dent, "This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays."  Which in no way applies to me, but it's the only pithy quote about Thursday I could think of.  In fact, it may be the only quote about Thursdays in existence.  If you can think of any other literary or cinematic quotes pertaining to Thursdays, please write it in reverse in lemon juice on a sheet of papyrus, seal it inside a tennis ball, dip it in rooster blood, bury it in your back yard during the first full moon after the equinox, then chant, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." five times.  My agents will be in touch.

After much deliberation over the past six months, Ethan finally picked a Halloween costume.  Earlier in the year, it was a werewolf in a suit, which was later changed to a Roman-style warrior a la Gladiator or 300, which evolved into an Egyptian pharaoh.  The final decision seems to have been inspired by this bit of Photoshopping, hence his decision to go as a zombie skateboarder.  Jacquelyn and I shredded some clothes and doused him in blood.  Wanna see?

Here he is in the shower where we smeared him with blood so we didn't get it all over the floor.  He's practicing his killer zombie face.


Once he's sufficiently bloody, then comes the deathly corpse-like pallor....


And then some gory facial wounds...


Finally, the zombie sees himself for what he is!


And he is not amused...


Jacquelyn is caught red handed!


Which send the newly zombified Ethan into a killing rage...


But her brains aren't enough, and he turns on his father for more!


Figaro watches the carnage with an air of detached amusement.


Zombie Ethan then takes his skateboard...


Hops on...


And goes trick-or-treating!


Along the way Jacquelyn and Zombie Skater have a nice laugh...


We see many cool pumpkins, like this one...


And scary costumes like this frightening little girl...


And I take my one obligatory picture to prove I was there...


Instead of saying "Trick-or-Treat!" Ethan approached the doors like this and growled, "BBBRRRRAAAAAAAIIIINNNSSSSS!"


Eventually we called it a night.  Zombie Ethan was again, not amused...


But in the end, was very happy at his diabetic-coma-inducing haul of candy...


The End.

Wasn't that a nice little pictorial story?  I thought so.

Today, I got a hair cut from Stephen at HAIR, stopped at Trader Joe's for some yummy groceries, and bicycled home.  It's definitely getting cold enough to make me consider putting the bike away for the season, but it's not quite that bad yet.  I just keep forgetting to buy gloves, as my hands are the only unbearably cold part of my bod.

Oh yes, NaNoWriMo starts today.  Since Ethan is too young to read my first novel (and he regularly asks when he can) I've decided to write Ethan a novel and I'm going to use NaNoWriMo as impetus to do so.  Ethan has asked for a sort of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic adventure.  We'll see how it goes.

I'll leave you here, dear reader, while I eat some Trader Joe's BBQ Chicken Pizza and do some laundry and think of a starting point for an apocalyptic novel.  I suppose I should start with an apocalypse, huh?  Yet I can't seem to get around the fact that apocalypse is Greek for revelation.  What, oh, what, shall I reveal?

Comments

[scarlete.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Nice job on the face!

Also, now I want to arrange my loot like that. :0

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Jacquelyn was wondering if anyone was going to comment on her OCD candy-sorting :)

[scarlete.livejournal.com]

I was very impressed. XD

haha, I thought I was being cool separating it from chocolate to non chocolate, though I did put them in the bowls in layers of different candy.. at least for the non chocolate.

[dearymetalsinks.livejournal.com]

were you referring to WIZARD PEOPLE here at the end? Because I really hope so.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You bet your sweet wizard-loving ass I was!

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

I've found that gloves and headband are the key to fall biking (I get such earaches!)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Gloves yes, but I'm finding the headband thing a little, uh, not my style :) Of course when it gets colder, I'll be crying like a baby about my ears :P

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

It took me four years to break down and get a headband!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

What kind of headband do you use? And it fits well with a helmet?

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

I got it at Willy st. bikes, so it's for bikers and it seems to work fine with the helmet (I can't wear a whole hat because my head gets so hot!). It fans out around the ears so they are more covered than the forehead. I think it was around 15.00??

[atomic-goo.livejournal.com]

NOOO DON'T EAT JACQUELYN'S BRAIN! TAKE MIIIINE INSTEAD!!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

As you can see, Jacquelyn survived, brains intact. Though, she's smart enough she probably doesn't even need them anyway :)

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

DUDE... way cool pics!! He looks great. :D (pickle's just gonna flip.. hehe)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) This is two years in a row we had to smear him with blood.

[marie-paris.livejournal.com]

I'm so tired this week, I'm mono-syllabic as a result, but yeah, nice bloody child, I wish more trick-or-treaters that showed up at my (new) door had been growling and enthusiastic! None of them even said 'trick-or-treat', and some had parents behind them trying to encourage them to speak or even ring the bell, lol.

Fun fun fun!

I must NaNoWrimo, I must, I must!

Trader Joe's est bueno.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I can't believe they didn't even say "Trick or Treat!" Tiny tiny kids, I can understand, but older kids should. What really irked me was the 14-15ish year olds who were out trick-or-treating and not even in costume. That's just greedy and lazy.

NaNo is definitely waiting for tomorrow. I am stuffed to the gills on shahi paneer :P

[turkeyanne.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I should've taken some zombie pointers from you guys.
People all day were like "Ohh. It's a (scary/bloody/homicidal) nun!", and I would have to just smile and say "Zombie. I'm a zombie nun," as the fake blood dripped conspicuously out of my mouth.

I considered writing an apocalyptic novel for NaNoWriMo too! I unfortunately have an assload of homework on the first day, so I'll have to start in tomorrow.
Even as I'm writing this, my brain is saying GETTOWORKGETTOWORKGETTOWORK

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

A few people just thought he was a very-badly-injured skater, the most blatant example was the girls about his age who turned to stare as he walked by and said simultaneously, "Oooooooh, blooody skater!"

I have no idea when I'm going to find time to do NaNo, but I'll do it. I'm heading out for Indian food in a little bit and am starting to think I may have to start tomorrow as well :( This is going to be difficult as I have three papers for psychology due this month, plus a presentation on Greek theatre masks for drama. Ack!

[turkeyanne.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also: Who gives out Swedish Fish in your neighborhood?
Conflabbit, I love Swedish Fish! I didn't even know they were available in trick-or-treatery size, or I would've stocked up on little travel packs for the year.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can order them in bulk from the Swedish Fish peeps? A worthy investment!

[ed1nburgh.livejournal.com]

<sub>I shall be expecting your agents soon, then...

(Though, I think you did forget the bit about writing it not in English, but in a strange conglomerate of Ancient Hebrew, Latin, Swahili and Klingon. Shame, oh, shame on you.

Ethan looks amazing, by the way. I once went as a zombie flapper-dancer from the 20s. It turned out brilliantly. I had cobwebs in my hair and everything.

And your apocalypse should have something to do with giant crab.</sub>

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I knew I was forgetting some detail. Grrrr!

That's a great costume. I love combo-costumes especially. A friend and I had the idea of selling dual-costume packages, like the werewolf princess or the vampire clown or the hobo robot :P

Giant crab, you say? Possibly. I'm thinking something lovely and biblical, so I do have to have a creature rise from the sea and it's got to have ten horns, so maybe I can make it ten claws instead ;)

[ed1nburgh.livejournal.com]

_{Hobo robot is one of the best things I've ever heard of. One of my friends did a Harry Potter themed costume, but instead of doing the normal stuff, he dressed as Dumbledore's death scene, with a pillar on one shoulder and another on the other, and little stuffed figures and green ribbons. It was absolutely brilliant.}

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's pretty brilliant. I don't think I've heard of anyone going as a scene before. That would be like saying, "I'm going as the bombing of Hiroshima."

This guy: http://www.drizzle.com/~earlb/costume/02hbcg.html makes the best costumes. This one is amazingly clever :)

[ed1nburgh.livejournal.com]

<sub>THAT IS BRILLIANT. Another one I've seen was a man in a bright pink dress that had put a canvas over his head and went as the Fat Lady.

Strangely enough, I did meet a man this week at a Haunted House that was dressed as the first invasion of Vietnam. I'm not even kidding.</sub>

[feather.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are fantastic. Zombie Ethan looked wonderful! :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I get credit for the pictures, Jacquelyn gets the credit for the great make-up job :)

[carrieaki.livejournal.com]

BEST PHOTO STORY EVER! I love the cat watching with "detached amusement" :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Sweet, thanks!

[strangedasein.livejournal.com]

I think I'm done cycling for the year. I never got around to buying cold weather gear, and I realized that 60 degrees is my cut off point. If it's any colder my motivation freezes and I don't want to exercise.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I've been pretty okay till today. I really needed the gloves at least. I'll probably keep it up until my face starts freezing up and I break into pieces like liquid metal guy from Terminator 2 :) Though, I have noticed that my enthusiasm has waned in direct proportion the drop in temperature. I've lost ten pounds this summer and I really don't want to gain it back over the winter. Are you still taking up jogging for the winter?

[strangedasein.livejournal.com]

I went jogging once and my shins exploded. I think I need new sneakers and if I won't invest in cold weather bike gear, well my inclination to invest in protective footwear is not inclined.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I hate jogging as well and jogging in winter seems like something the Spanish Inquisition would dream up. I wonder if we could find an indoor tennis court or something.

[lagizma.livejournal.com]

You guys did nice work with the blood! Very realistic. And I love the cat's opinion on it all.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Jacquelyn did the make-up and an excellent job :)

Figaro watched everything with detached amusement.

[lipsoflove.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite thing in all those photos was the fact that someone thought Cheez-its are trick-or-treating goodies.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

He also got a bag of microwave popcorn :P