Mostly Semantics

The way things have gone lately, I’m beginning to think we should be posting at that other site. By now you’ve read about Halloween. Yeah. Good times. But we are busy and resilient types, inclined to pick up and continue on. In that spirit, CV, MBG, and I made our way to the Halloween store at Cleveland Park, motivated by the need for costumes for a soiree this weekend and enticed by a post-holiday 50%-off sale.

In retrospect, we might have known it wasn’t our night before we made it into the parking lot. (more…)

Halloween has never been good to me. In fact, among major holidays, it may be my least favorite. I think this may be a jealousy thing - every year I see costumes and think ’shit, that’s clever, why didn’t I do that?’ I’m no fan of Halloween because I never have good costumes, like, ever. There’s no real reason or excuse for this, but I’m sort of lazy and cheap and particularly hard to dress, and I don’t shop for clothes. When I do ‘buy’ clothes (by which I mean allow my mom to buy clothes for me (I realize how weird/sad that is, yes)) it’s not, y’know, a thing that might be funny or weird or anything like that. It’s something functional and boring. So I can’t just throw together a costume, and I hate storebought ones, and so Halloween is just this big anxiety trip for me - an impending annual reminder that I am fundamentally boring and lame.

I mention this as a preface to the story of this Halloween so that you’ll understand how weird it is that I was excited for this one. Like, really excited. Why? Well (more…)

For reasons unknown to me, the server we’re on was down for a day. Apparently we got 2 free months hosting out of it, but it did leave me unable to post my Halloween story for a good 36 hours after it was written, which pretty much kills me. Damn you, Halloween!