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Even to this day, the approach of Halloween STILL gets me all excited.

When I was a kid, I would start planning my costume at the end of August. Everyone thought I was insane (which I am). But you see, this always allowed me that “extra time” for when I changed my mind every 2 days, about how I was going to dress up.

As Halloween got closer and closer, I would silently pray to God every night before bed, so He would not allow it to rain that evening. I couldn’t bare the thought of having all my efforts stifled by some shitty freak of nature.

One year I decided to dress like Aunt Jemima.

My mother did a fabulous job helping me put it all together. In those days (1960’s) you would use a burnt cork to create black-face. My mother would burn the end of a cork and rub it all over my face and neck. When I looked in the mirror, it appeared as though I had been on a two year mining expedition. She finished it off with some bright red lipstick. After I put on the dress, apron and kerchief, I stood back and admired my reflection in a full length mirror….HOT DAMN…I was the BOMB!

We would stay out trick or treating for hours. I would always come home in between, and dump off the first bag, and then go back out for a second.

Then, at about 10 p.m. we’d all go home and check out “our goods.”

And only ONCE did I ever receive a small bag of rocks for a treat.

(I guess someone felt the need to be a dickhead)

We’d eat the candy until we almost threw up.

(But it was so much fun)

Now, as an adult, I always rent the movie, “Halloween” with Jamie Lee Curtis.

I turn off all the lights in my apartment, and then fire up about 12 tea lights.

I sit on the floor, with my hands covering both my eyes; as I peek through the cracks of my slightly opened fingers….scared out of my mind…just WAITING for Michael Myers to rise up off the floor again; after being shot, stabbed with a knife, and then poked in the eyes with a wire coat hanger!!!!

I’ve seen the movie a million times…and it STILL scares the shit out of me!

(But it’s so much fun)

Wishing you a fun, safe and “Michael Myers Halloween.”

BOO!


Photo: Pete The Chop