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Really want to do something on Halloween, but just couldn't make it all come together? Was it really different or strange or possibly kind of... socially unaceptable?
My neighbor made masks for a living and that year he was offering a Michael Jackson "Thriller" mask for sale.
I told him I wanted one, sure would have paid his price for one, but it just never happened for whatever reason?
What was I going to do with it?
My Haunt is a tall two-story Italianate 1870 house and the crowds stand infront of it in the dead-end city parking lot when they are waiting to come in.
I was going to hang out an upstairs window, holding my "Baby" out, wearing that mask.
Art immitates Life?
All to meant in fun of course.. but then you can tell alot about someone by what they find "Funny"......?

I had this phone call once:"I'm bringing my couple of friends by to go through your house. I want you to scare the hell out of them, first thing!"
Their arrival time .. arrived... a small car pulled up and parked across from my house. Three (or was it four?) guys got out, looked at the house, then began walking towards it spread out like gunfighters in a western (makes it harder to shoot them all)
I hear one of them say:"See, it's more like "Art Work", it's really not that scary."
I took this as my cue.
I screamed out the now open upstairs window:"And never come back here again!" As I threw a dummy out of that window! I screamed giving the dumb-one his "Voice".
I then ran downstairs as quickly as possible (which was pretty quick!), opened the side door, just in time to see their tailights at the stop sign a block away!
Then they sped away, out of sight.
For them to ALL get in that small car that quickly and start it up, drive 150 feet took some real fast-feet on their part, and they werenot skinny little "Runners" either!
So I scared away the first possible paying customers of the night, just as requested, or at least I thought he was the earlier caller?

Of course there is that other possible scenario I always hesitate to think about let alone type for all to see...maybe, they were scared at the fact that there was someone in this house nutty enough to scream and throw a dummy out their upstairs window?...For total strangers?
I may have invaded their personal-mental spaces.

hahaha that's really funny. I wanna do that to someone!

my neighbors all ready think I'm crazy, if I did that they would call the popo and request the straight jacket...lol............but that is really funny, too bad they didn't get to enjoy yur "artwork"

That is very amusing, Gym

that time I had been invited to a backyard bonfire Halloween party for adults.
I went as a Nazi with severely ripped, torn pants soaked in blood. (Swaztika underware.)
I walk into the backyard, standing next to the fire I give the Nazi salute and say:"Seig Heil! Anybody seig my nutz?" (They seemed to have been missing ? you know all that blood and clothing damage..)
A person sticks their face in my face, they are wearing a beret, pencil moustache, holding a small pair of pliers. I still hadn'r recognised .. my wife, as the nut-yanking Jew!
Then I later discover the party was sponsered by a local Church! Some of them seemed to be in Klan gowns though? Maybe not-see? One of my childhood playmates had invited me over to his house/their party.
All true and embarrassing!

I didn't dare include what would have been my favorite vignette in last year's Seven Deadly Sins display.

For "Wrath", I wanted to have a group of witches burning a priest at the stake above a pyre of Bibles.

*I* thought it would be a clever little turnabout on both book burnings and witch burnings but for some reason, my horrified family nixed it on the grounds of taste. Some people!

I also didn't manage - for reasons of time/space - to have lab rats experimenting on little action figures of people, housed in a glass tank, running on exercise wheels and drinking from a hanging bottle. Some day, I will find a way to work that one in.

OH! hahahahahahahahahah.... uhhh.. mmmmm.

LOL! I love it!

A biker struts into a shop to buy some live-food mammals for his big pet reptile and a door opens and suddenly he is faced with a reptile of huge proportions, rared-up about to strike and eat him! "OOOPS!"(When it's mammals against Reptiles, maybe you should have taken sides with more of your own kind?)
The mice were happy! They finally found food for Their pet snake!
"Turn-arounds" do stimulate our way of looking at some things, don't they?
Many seem to have no imagination at all to think what it must be like to be on the brown sticky-end of life's "Stick"
I think we would all become alot kinder and generous if we were more that way.

Gym Whourlfeld, I would love to see that cartoon!

Isn't Halloween the holiday to celebrate turn-arounds? It's the one time a year we get to discuss death in something other than hushed whispers, admire the macabre beauty of the inner workings of our own bodies, "be" something we truly are - or secretly want to be. Surfaces no longer have to be smooth, symmetrical, and bland. Lumps, bumps, and asymmetry are "in", however briefly. And if we haunters want, it's an ideal time to slip in a subversive message ... like exercising power with great respect for those on whom our actions will fall.

IRL I rescue unwanted rats (primarily), as well as mice, hamsters, gerbils, and other small rodents from animal shelters, labs, and feeder pens. I live surrounded by them, and know them to be generous, altrustic, kind animals whose care of the sick, elderly, and disabled should teach humans a thing or two. Thus, at Halloween-time, the sight of grotesque, evil, mutant rat figures is guaranteed to give me a good giggle. I can't get enough of 'em and have amassed quite the collection.

Folks, it would take very little egging on to get me to create that priest/witch vignette I mentioned earlier. I loved my display but its omission continues to nag at me.