Well, yesterday I managed to post not one, but two – count ‘em – two PinkSlip-pers, which is, quite honestly, one too many. This is true for my readers, I’m sure – only so much time over that morning coffee – but it’s also true for the writer. Especially when I am staring down more than a few writing projects that I’m actually being paid for. Unlike this labor of, ah, love.
Anyway, today’s post – which was really meant to be the one about cracking your teeth on nuts, which was erroneously released yesterday, right on top of the post on Dr Pepper’s hideous new marketing campaign – is going to be a pictorial celebration of the season.
Beacon Hill, where I live, is a lot of fun on Halloween.
There are quite a few people with small children in the neighborhood. The streets are dark and spookily lit with old fashioned (and just plain old-old) gas lamps. And lots of people get into the spirit by decorating their houses.
While walking down Mt. Vernon Street the other day, I passed a house that had these wonderful little sock monkeys in its windows.
Admittedly, these are a bit hard fully appreciate, but you will nonetheless get the picture, as I present to you, straight from my Blackberry to your eyeballs. I give you Sock Monkey 1, Sock Monkey 2, and Sock Monkey 3.
I so covet that Dracula…
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This post is dedicated to my sister Trish, for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who knows her.
3 comments:
I was wondering about those two posts yesterday - I thought maybe I had just missed a day. As for the Halloween sock monkeys - MUST.HAVE.THEM! You wouldn't want to knock on their door, create a diversion and snag them would you?
And, btw, it's amazing how much comes up when you google "Halloween Sock Monkeys" - including a set of ornaments in costume, but not as cool as the ones in the window on the hill. What else comes up? Some very disturbing images of adults in sock monkey H'ween costumes!
The WSJ listed the 20 best cities for trick or treat, and Boston was second on the list.
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