Back in the day...

...I was always pumped for Halloween.

All Hallow's Eve

Still the best holiday ever. If you're not in a costume you're doing it wrong.

Shredding

It was Halloween. It would have been rude to NOT wear the mask.

Halloween Hijinks

I've written before how much Halloween kicks ass. I know lots of people think they've outgrown it or whatever, but they're wrong. They just don't have good enough costumes or a good party to go to.

I got together with Dexter, his victim, Christine O'Donnell (in witch garb), Liza Minelli (or that dude from Green Day, hard to tell) and some kind of hippie Jason Vorhees. I think they felt comforted having a Zombie Hunter with them. You can't be too safe when the undead are walking around.

Not Breaking News, But Still...

I love halloween; hands-down the best holiday of the year, for reasons I went into last year. One thing I haven't been to in years is a good haunted house. In Cincinnati there were a few good ones we'd hit up when I was a kid, but this year the Queen City took things up a notch...

Apparently, Kings Island (huge roller coaster park and redneck spawning ground) has a Halloween haunted house with rooms of dead celebrities, which doesn't sound too bad, but they didn't stop there...and put them in some crazy poses with details of how they died, etc...

I've never really gone as far as to call Cincinnati classy, but even for Northern Kentucky this is pretty classless, but also fargin funny that nobody thought this would be a big deal. Well, it was, and now it's shut down because of all the bad PR. Whoops. I'm betting someone got fired over this.

Here's one of the images from the Haunted Walk, which is supposed to be former NFL Quarterback Steve McNair, who was shot by his girlfriend (who he was having an affair with, btw) right before she shot herself. Might have been a little too soon for this one...


Not pictured is the gun on the ground. There was also Sonny Bono (face-first smashed into a tree, with ski poles), Heath Ledger (dressed as The Joker but with empty pill bottles at his feet) and Ted Williams (frozen in a meat locker). Good times.

The Band

Halloween is by far the best holiday. You can't convince me otherwise. You get candy, lots of girls dress all trashy, and everyone is out to have fun. It's also really the only holiday that gets better as you get older, mainly by adding alcohol to the candy+trashy equation.

We decided to get the band together for a costume party down in Capitol Hill. It came down to The Ramones or Devo, and I think we pulled it off pretty well, although all of us in flower pot hats and silver jumpsuits would have been pretty sweet, too. Can't wait for next year.