November 1, 2009 • 10:56 pm 0
MECA's Dia de los Muertos art car
Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts presented it’s annual Dia de los Muertos: Honoring our Past, Celebrating our Future.
“Day of the Dead” artwork and decorations consist of traditional design, along with modern found objects and pop culture motifs. Obviously, installations representing and honoring the deceased, are specific to each individual’s tastes.
Check out tons of pics on Facebook.
Filed under: Halloween, Day of the Dead
October 31, 2009 • 11:54 pm 0
Our Ghoulish Golf Cart / Photo courtesy Kelley Dawson
The majority of residents in this small drinking town (with a large fishing problem) geared up for the annual Halloween golf cart parade. Firefighters blared Halloween greetings, as they escorted some seventy-nine golf carts throughout the town’s streets and paraders tossed candy to costumed children on the street.
The parade route stopped at local bars and restaurants, complete with cheap beer and free chili dogs at Gilhooley’s.
Apparently, in past years, residents were welcome to drink cans and bottles as the parade move on; until some residents complained. Now plastic and Styrofoam cups suffice.
Photo courtesy Kelley Dawson
Filed under: Halloween, San Leon TX
October 26, 2009 • 2:04 am 0
THE GOBLIN
There’s a goblin as green
As a goblin can be
Who is sitting outside
And is waiting for me.
When he knocked on my door
And said softly, “Come play!”
I answered, “No thank you,
Now please, go away!”
But the goblin as green
As a goblin can be
Is still sitting outside
And is waiting for me.
Filed under: Halloween, Jack Prelutsky, The Goblin
October 19, 2009 • 12:53 am 0
Jack-O-Lanterns fill up the trees on the property
Skeleton trees
with knotty limbs
creak with the breeze
beckoning you–come hither.
Their branches reach
to an eerie moon
as the bats screech
in the graveyard–you shiver.
From the headstones
specters appear.
A Legend and his Horse
ghostly gallop draws near,
Ghouls and Goblins follow.
A Jack-o-Lantern sneers,
his face all a-glow.
The underworld alive–
Welcome to Spooky Hollow.*
Abandon Hope All ye Who Enter!
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST!
With the Zombie Zoo of ghosts and ghouls and bloody things and skeletons and serial killers and all sorts of dead and undead things hanging around, one was sure to catch a scare here and there at our Halloween party!
There were hounds of hell, bloody finger cookies, cat litter delight, and tons of costumed guests! I went as Patrick Bateman from AMERICAN PSYCHO. Here are some of the highlights:
My hero of the night: Silvia-for recognizing my costume straightaway!
Best costume: Stan’s Breathalyzer Test-purely for shock value.
Kayla got creative points for her “Obama” (yeah, I don’t have a pic)
“Elvis” the Hound of Hell terrorized party-goers for over an hour until he was permanently exited after being allowed inside…
Charlotte gets best food award for her Cat Litter delight; although Kel’s Bloody Finger Cookies are hard to beat!
Word of the night: “dickerus”
Thanks also to my friends, Clay, Barak & Deva, for traveling all the way from Dallas (again, no pics!).
Kudos for me for putting together our creepy soundtrack and managing not to axe-murder anyone that didn’t deserve it!
It was just another night in Spooky Hollow!
Silvia, me, Adam and Stan (the temp dropped quite a bit at this point)
Tons of pics on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=156990&id=598289154&l=dd5ffb24e7
*Poem written by Kelley Dawson.
Filed under: Halloween, Spooky Hollow
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