Halloween Costumes: A Personal Retrospective Part 3

After an unusual costume drought during high school and college, I received the opportunity to re-visit one of my favorite childhood pastimes at work. One year, my previous office put together a social committee that designed a bunch of activities for us all to participate in every year.  I never participated in any but one, …

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Halloween Costumes: A Personal Retrospective Part 2

As the 90s broke, it seems we stopped going for the store-bought costumes, and I personally started wearing costumes my mom made. While the idea of “homemade” costumes makes a lot of people think they’d be lesser quality than the store-bought stuff, I think the pictures below prove otherwise. With a great combination of love …

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Halloween Costumes: A Personal Retrospective

Fall is my favorite time of year.  The crisp air, just cool enough to be comfortable and maybe require a light jacket, but not the bitter frozen temperatures of winter.  The sound of dried, fallen leaves blown by the wind.  The strange orangey glow of an autumn sunset.  The smell of fall is indescribable, but …

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From Dusk Till Dawn Puts the Bite Back in Vamps

Some wouldn’t consider From Dusk Till Dawn a horror movie, but I’m not one of them. IMDB has it listed as “action, crime, fantasy,” which makes it sound like a mob movie with dragons. However, From Dusk Till Dawn contains several horror movie elements, and some scenes are quite scary. The movie ranks pretty high …

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