May I just say that having the photo of "Woman Gets Entire Can Of Hairspray Lodged Up Her Butt" directly to her left in no way detracts from the beauty that is Miss Tracy Turnblad. She endures. #hairspray
@Penny: Selfridges always does an incredible job with their windows - just walking by the department store is enough to make me laugh. Are you responsible for creating window displays, Penny? You lucky thing. #selfridges
@Harlot Brontë: i dont like the selfy window this season =( it makes me nervous with all the featureless mannequins. Narvey Nicks in knightsbridge on the other hand, did good this year. #selfridges
@Penny: My momma, talented and multi-faceted woman that she is, used to have this specific job. She was in charge of costuming and arranging display figures and scenes for department store Holiday windows all over the country.
A ridiculously interesting job, but one not without its disadvantages: Come July, her basement workshop was always full of naked, armatured motorized elves and Victorian ladies with glass eyes, smiling cheerily into the darkness. #selfridges
@hydrogen_jukebox: I think I would wet my pants in terror at that sight. I almost did sitting here in the safety of my college hallway. *shudder* #selfridges
Halloween is the last bastion of creepy kitsch. Only at Halloween will your average department store carry giggling, walking electronic brains, gangrene make-up kits and fake blood by the bucket full. Have you ever tried to find fake fangs off season? I'm just asking. Be grateful to me.
Americans love to celebrate their ids. Thanksgiving? Food id. St Patrick's Day? Alcohol id. Christmas? Commercialism id. But Halloween is the only holiday that celebrates creativity, and not just that, but the sinister-yet-corny impulses that lie in the hearts of all of us.
Some people are going to make it a holiday about sex, or alcohol, or convincing their boss that they give a damn about company culture. But some of us spend 364 days every damned year wishing we were wearing green face-paint and scaring the bejeebies out of little kids. Don't take that away from us.
@LittleDogLaughed: Dear Halloween and Christmas (and Easter, also, Thanksgiving's pie),
No matter what anybody claims, you're simply vice-ridden holidays content on celebrating gluttony of processed sugars. The children who pee themselves in excitement over you end up peeing themselves in pain as their cavities are filled by greedy dentists who rush the job in order to get back to their boat.
You should be ashamed of yourselves and the diabetes you sow. ASHAMED.
What exactly do you expect me to do with porous, nasty little children's teeth? I will never finish my ivory city with all of you ruining my tiny little bricks.
I shall never turn on you. You will always be my favorite, even if I don't usually get presents. It's ok though, because I get to turn my frontyard into a graveyard and you are the one time during the year when I can wear shirts and hair bows featuring ghost and bats and not get odd looks. No matter how commercial you get, take solace in knowing that we true Halloween-lovers will always do it right and do it the best.
@JessIsElf-ity: You don't usually get presents? So sometimes you do? How can I finagle this? I always appreciate a good gift-giving holiday. #halloween
@Dictator for Life: Well, usually my family just sends me the little Halloween village scenes- you know, the little ceramic-y decorative ones? People also give me things with bats on them because I collect those as well. My advice? Find something Halloween-related to collect, tell everyone, then sit back and wait!! #halloween
Don't listen to them, lil 'ween. The most wonderful time of the year is obviously October. You got crisp cool weather, my birthday, and you! Where I get to eat candy, dress up, party on down with friends and watch scary movies.
As an Angeleno, I already dread the coming of Halloween. The massive West Hollywood Halloween celebration, to which more than a million revelers journey, is a total nightmare. The festivities are one of those terrible/fun things that you can't miss, even when you don't want to go.
I miss trick-or-treating! Does anyone have a toddler I can borrow for the night? #halloween
@allnighter: And this is my 3rd year in LA and I have yet to make it to the WeHo festivities despite wanting to go SO badly!
Working Halloween this year too...no parade for me.
The parade in NYC is one of my favorites! #halloween
@sangmo: That sounds expensive! In my parents' neighbourhood, they give out candy to about 100 kids before they turn their lights off for the night. While the thought of 100 apples is mouth-watering to me, I don't think their pockets would appreciate it :) Kid-sized candy bars and chip bags are about all they can handle. #halloween
I just spent a couple hours at an upscale, outdoor shopping "town centre" surrounded by more dogs than I have ever seen – dogs in costumes, at that! Halloween will always be dear to me, for it means I get to witness a pair of long-haired dachshunds in banana costumes, a great Dane dressed as a delicate fairy, and a burly English bulldog dressed in a jailbird costume to match the little girl walking him. Long live Halloween! #halloween
@sweet_communist: I saw a teeny-tiny dog wearing an actual Wonder Bread bag today. It took me a minute to realize that it wasn't a DIY raincoat, but a costume. Either way, though, it was the cutest thing! #halloween
Personally, I find candy corn disgusting, and don't even let me get started on that gut wrenching, saliva and germ fest known as bobbing for apples. Trust. #halloween
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A ridiculously interesting job, but one not without its disadvantages: Come July, her basement workshop was always full of naked, armatured motorized elves and Victorian ladies with glass eyes, smiling cheerily into the darkness. #selfridges
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Halloween is the last bastion of creepy kitsch. Only at Halloween will your average department store carry giggling, walking electronic brains, gangrene make-up kits and fake blood by the bucket full. Have you ever tried to find fake fangs off season? I'm just asking. Be grateful to me.
Americans love to celebrate their ids. Thanksgiving? Food id. St Patrick's Day? Alcohol id. Christmas? Commercialism id. But Halloween is the only holiday that celebrates creativity, and not just that, but the sinister-yet-corny impulses that lie in the hearts of all of us.
Some people are going to make it a holiday about sex, or alcohol, or convincing their boss that they give a damn about company culture. But some of us spend 364 days every damned year wishing we were wearing green face-paint and scaring the bejeebies out of little kids. Don't take that away from us.
Yours, &c,
Halloween #halloween
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No matter what anybody claims, you're simply vice-ridden holidays content on celebrating gluttony of processed sugars. The children who pee themselves in excitement over you end up peeing themselves in pain as their cavities are filled by greedy dentists who rush the job in order to get back to their boat.
You should be ashamed of yourselves and the diabetes you sow. ASHAMED.
What exactly do you expect me to do with porous, nasty little children's teeth? I will never finish my ivory city with all of you ruining my tiny little bricks.
Sincerely,
The Tooth Fairy #halloween
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My back porch looks like cemetery/horror lab. My living room has a pumpking with a steampunk hat and goggles on.
I'm pretty sure it's Halloween all year round at my house. #halloween
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I shall never turn on you. You will always be my favorite, even if I don't usually get presents. It's ok though, because I get to turn my frontyard into a graveyard and you are the one time during the year when I can wear shirts and hair bows featuring ghost and bats and not get odd looks. No matter how commercial you get, take solace in knowing that we true Halloween-lovers will always do it right and do it the best.
Love,
Elf-ity #halloween
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Seriously, you rock. Don't change.
Love, PC #halloween
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I miss trick-or-treating! Does anyone have a toddler I can borrow for the night? #halloween
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It should be for kids! #halloween
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It should be for kids! #halloween
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Working Halloween this year too...no parade for me.
The parade in NYC is one of my favorites! #halloween
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All I want to do is roll my eyes.
ps. I only give real fruits to the kids. NO candy :) #halloween
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