Halloween Havoc

I went Trick or Treating, but we noted the lack of trick or treaters too. We got double treats from everyone... and we're college kids. Normally they don't get squat.

Halloween is definately a dying Holiday. Last year we got 1 group. This year NONE.....yet...but I doubt anyone would come this time of night unless theyre a bunch of unruly hooligans looking for trouble, in which case i'd have to open up a 6 pack of whoopass, or just not answer...

We didn't get anything around here either, which is odd considering I live right next to a shop...

At the very least, I would have expected some hooligans with eggs

After I got off work I decided to play the part of Zoro from One Piece. Heres 3 of the best pics. (1st one has been photo chopped)





To Halloween!

Nice pics Ace!


After reading some LJ entries, and stuff it seems the number of trick-or-treaters has decreased within the past years, but I can say that this is the lowest it's ever been.

I'd hate to think that for whatever reason, the numbers will keep dropping, and soon the fun part of Halloween for kids will be nothing more then a memory for older generations.

Nice pics, Ace.

BethMcBeth, Shaoblane and I (along with some of Shaoblane's friends) decided to make our presence known in the eastside of Portland (Happy Valley). We received so much candy, that we filled up a gym bag.

We capped out the evening with dinner at Dairy Queen. Since it was raining, they couldn't get rid of their candy, so they gave it to us.

Anyway, we took a few pictures. Beth was Jesse from Team Rocket. Shaoblane was Zorro. As for me, I was a travelling used cat salesman.

Is...is there any way I could eventually claim "I killed Halloween"?

I'm just not sure what evidence I'd need to falsify here.

I think you've need to sneak into every calendar factory and erase it from the computerised templates, after that I'm not sure.

But that would require fingerprints, possibly video footage, a broken door or so...

I broke up with my girlfriend, dressed up as V, and got drunk in the company of good friends.

PWNED

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My girlfriend was killed by a large conspiracy, I was overdosed on V, and finally I knocked down a large radio tower onto my enemy.

Fixed for how I've played ENTIRELY too much max payne over the years.

Very nice costumes Tony, Beth and Shaoblane!

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 quote: My girlfriend was killed by a large conspiracy, I was overdosed on V, and finally I knocked down a large radio tower onto my enemy. Fixed for how I've played ENTIRELY too much max payne over the years.

Yeah...you do that...

But I meant V...like



But your out-of-the-blue random posts are funny...

Keep it up, buddy. You have a lot more lesser minded people to confuse...

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Is...is there any way I could eventually claim "I killed Halloween"? I'm just not sure what evidence I'd need to falsify here.

This guy in my town always put like $5000 worth of stuff out on his lawn. It was stolen over the weekend. Now he has a few big signs that say "HALLOWEEN CANCELED DUE TO THEFT"

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But your out-of-the-blue random posts are funny

Originally I was going to rewrite your whole post in the form of the narration in that game, complete with stuff like "In the windows, jack-o-lanterns leered at me like an audience from hell itself. Demonic faces giddy with anticipation at the course my revenge would take me on".

But...you know, I'm lazy.

I'm completely unfamiliar with V, all I know is it somehow involves guy fawkes day....I've always said we just need to create a holiday over here thats nothing but an excuse for me to burn an effigy in my yard. It could replace earth day...which I will have absolutely no part of after the way natures been acting lately.

edit: Now it's a movie? Oh..oh THATS whos directing it. I don't trust them after reloaded and especially revolutions.

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Now it's a movie? Oh..oh THATS whos directing it. I don't trust them after reloaded and especially revolutions.

They wrote the script and it sucks hard. However, the graphic novel is my bible.

But, let's get back to the subject...

LOL You are one funny guy.

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Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo quote: Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Now it's a movie? Oh..oh THATS whos directing it. I don't trust them after reloaded and especially revolutions. They wrote the script and it sucks hard. However, the graphic novel is my bible. But, let's get back to the subject... LOL You are one funny guy.

I have a taste in my mouth. Its like when you bite a spoon...just can't place it though.

But by all means, go anti-totalitarian freedom fighters. Power to the people, right on.


It rained yesterday. Hard. Thunder and all that jazz.

Some Samhain that was.

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Originally posted by D-Boy quote: Originally posted by Dr. Gonzo quote: Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Now it's a movie? Oh..oh THATS whos directing it. I don't trust them after reloaded and especially revolutions. They wrote the script and it sucks hard. However, the graphic novel is my bible. But, let's get back to the subject... LOL You are one funny guy. I have a taste in my mouth. Its like when you bite a spoon...just can't place it though. But by all means, go anti-totalitarian freedom fighters. Power to the people, right on.

It's amazing what Wikipedia and Lennon references can accomplish.

I shall call you...mini me?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--
Only this and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow-- sorrow for the lost Lenore--
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me-- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating:
" 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;
This it is and nothing more."

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"--here I opened wide the door;--
Darkness there and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"--
Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before.
"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore--
Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore;--
'Tis the wind and nothing more.

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he,
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door--
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door,
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such a name as "Nevermore."

But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing farther then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered--
Till I scarcely more than muttered: "Other friends have flown before--
On the morrow he will leave me as my Hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I,"what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never--nevermore'"

But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore--
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore."

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methougt, the air grew denser, perfumed from some unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch,"I cried,"thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite--respite and nepenthe from they memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--
On this home by Horror haunted,-- tell me truly, I implore--
Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore--
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! --quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And the eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted--nevermore!

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Originally posted by Ace of Spades After I got off work I decided to play the part of Zoro from One Piece. Heres 3 of the best pics. (1st one has been photo chopped) To Halloween!

Well, my nakama, perhaps it would amuse you to find out that I went as Sanji this Halloween! Here I am at a pre-Halloween party with my Sanji doll and my friends dancing to the Backstreet Boys in the background.



I'm pretty sure I'm going to die one day because of that hair paint. Open up my lungs, and they'll be yellow, I swear to god. Anywho! My friends were pretty impressed. I also dressed up again for school on Halloween day, and people liked that, too. I was partcularly amused myself at my chocolate cigarettes and of course, my eyebrow.

Nice costume Mistress-Samwise!

Lyinginbedmon, if you have that whole poem memorized you are awesome. If not, you're still cool for posting it. The Raven is a great poem. Poe's writing may be a bit....odd, but its still expertly done.