It's That Time of Year...

Well, I'm not dead - and I intend to prove it to anyone who's still out there on the blog-o-sphere.

This is my season after all! I've noticed a steady decline since early summer in virtually all the blogs I used to visit. Seems this corner of the internet is a bit of a ghost town. Where is everybody?...



Things are just a lot busier these days than they have been in the past. It makes me stop and think about the old days - when I would go with my aunt and two brothers to see the Ringling Bros. circus at the Boston Garden - before it became whatever the hell they call it now. I refuse to call it anything other than the Boston Garden. They can eat me!

Actually, the circus is a lot better now than it was when I was little. Gone are the days of circus oddities like King Tusk - the largest land mammal on Earth, or that cheesey "unicorn" they were hyping (that was really a deformed mountain goat). Now they have motorbike daredevils and Chinese kung fu acrobats! I'll always have a place in my heart for the Ghostbusters clown act (one of the only times I can remember them doing something for Halloween).

After the show, we'd grab a coveted Halloween Happy Meal from the McDonald's buried in the slum beneath the overpass just outside. In addition to the spooky-themed McNugget Buddies, there were also the glow-in-the-dark trick or treat buckets. They came in the shape of pumpkins and usually featured different faces. McD's got a bit funky later on and added a white ghost and a green witch - the latter of which I still have somewhere in the basement. It was the perfect thing to get our young minds into a Halloween atmosphere after the spooky clowns, unneccesary pyrotechnics, and surly and abused tigers.

Now that I'm old enough to create some holiday traditions of my own, our growing family has found new haunts. We've already begun visiting a few; and it inspired me to crawl out of this hole and post some new stories. Meanwhile, me and Glenn are working on our costumes...though we're not quite sure where we're going with them yet.