Happy Halloween!
10/31/01
Happy Halloween!
Hope that all the boils & ghouls are out tonight causing scandal and delight. I’ll be dressed up as a molly mart. What is a molly mart you ask? It’s one of those crazy ladies in slippers, bathrobe & curlers in her hair that insists on going to the market late at night to squeeze the zuchini and tomatoes. In other words, I don’t really feel like changing out of my pajamas this morning so pht! Ha!
Either that or I’ll just vedge at home & pass out candy. Halloween has never been a big holiday with me…. for a number of reasons.
Being among the few minority families during this season in suburbia Michigan, our house would sometimes get vandalized either during halloween or the night before, pleasantly referred to as Devil’s night when the news would be overwhelmed with reports of car fire bombs, arson, & crap like that. Mostly insurance fraud from what I’ve been recently been told but frightening none the less when you’re little.
On Halloween day, one trick or treater, behind a horrible mask, asked for candy. And I gave it to him. Instead of saying thanks he called me a chink to my face. And then ran off. I chased after him, chucking tootsie rolls at his back. Stoopid. Yeah I know.
And being catholic, the reminder that Halloween really isn’t anything but a pre-cursor for November 1st, all souls day, a day when you pray and remember the departed. So since my mom passed away nearly 10 years ago, November 1st has always had more significance for me. It’s a day that I sit, light a candle, say a little prayer, and chat with my mom for an hour or so. So there you go, I speak with ghosts but not on halloween.
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So glad that it stopped raining around here and that the sun is out, bright, and in full force.After staying up obscenely late watching even more flicks last night, it was good to sleep in and feel like it was allowable to do. There’s a lot to hope for and keep in mind for november so I’m keeping my chin up and trying to stay on top of it all.
And yeah, there’s enough to keep on top of.
Not the least of which includes finally putting together a real semi portfolio of publications, magazines, newsletters, journals, zines & what not that I’ve been published in ~all those little things that I’ve written up and never considered to be worthy to note otherwise.
Then there’s still finding the day job. Yeah… still looking and still waiting to hear from places. Yada yada yada. Now that is the shit that’s scary these days.
Soo….
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Boo.
While chilling with Bleak and Aaron this past weekend in Los Angeles, the notion of spooking online peeps came to mind. We would grab paper plates, draw faces on them, and pop on the front steps of shy bloggers pretending to be goofy trick or treaters. I think we would have given her and her a good scare as stalkers…good thing we got lazy though, huh?
Min Jung
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