Just in case we weren't clear about some Trump supporters

[thewayne]

"Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn't get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it."
-- Conservative activist Jack Posobiec, to cheering CPAC audience

"Amen!"
-- Steve Bannon, in response

Comments

[thewayne]

So mote it be.

[acelightning73]

I generally wind up shouting "SO mote it fucking BE!" at the end of the invocations.

And I consider Ruth Bader Ginsburg a saint of freedom, one of our beloved ancestors to invite to dinner at Samhain.

Now if thr noisy nuisance will just sit down, shut up, and pay his fines

[thewayne]

The Notorious RBG is definitely a patron saint and beloved ancestor of this country.

[acelightning73]

A few Samhains ago, I couldn't think of an idea for a costume. BUt when I pulled my hair back in a ponytail and slicked it down with gel, I looked vaguely like her. I bought a cheap black choir robe and some heavy lace to make myself a collar. One trick-or-treater, a girl who looked about 9 or 10, said, "Oh,you're RBG! Great!" I gave her an extra candy bar :-)

[thewayne]

That is AWESOME!  And well deserving of an add'l candy bar, especially at that age.  A Japanese friend of mine who has since gone beyond the veil, spent an entire year not shaving preparing for his Halloween costume.  He dug out his high school graduation robe, found a small gavel somewhere, and went to a party as Judge Alito. :)

[acelightning73]

I just wish she'd been able to hold on for another few years. We need her wisdom and eloquence. The only other wise people we seem to have are Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.

I had a lot of fun making the lace collar. It looks almost Elizabethan, but it's only gathered enough to line up with the neck of the robe. RBG usually wore small round clip-on earrings, and I had an aunt who always wore such earrings, but I didn't inherit any of them. (I also have various scarves I can tie like a necktie, and I also own a standard men's tie in bright purple polyester.)

At least last Samhain I only got two or three teenage girls in sequined dresses pretending to be Taylor Swift or Katy Perry. And I always get some Catalinas (the sexy skeleton of Mexican Day of the Dead). And the babies in strollers dressed as bumblebees or ladybugs :-)

I have a really cool idea for next Halloween, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to get the components I need.

[thewayne]

We don't do anything for Halloween anymore.  When I lived in Phoenix, I had friends who threw awesome parties, but I think they've pretty much stopped that with our group moving apart and several passing away.  It's disappointing, but that's the way time works.

[acelightning73]

I just hand out candy by the front door, and I do private rituals around midnight. But I like to have an imaginative costume (not a Sexy Lady Cop dress from the costume shop)

[thewayne]

In Cloudcroft, we don't have door-to-door trick or treaters.  There are no sidewalks, and not a lot of streetlights.  The town has a main drag, Burro Street, with a boardwalk.  It's basically a tourist trap as it's a town of 800.  So the Burro Street Merchants give out candy.  Much safer that way.

[acelightning73]

This town has about 5,000 people, but they mostly live in small suburban houses on narrow or short streets. (Most of the houses were originally built as beach bungalows, but many of them got "winterized" - provided with a furnace and some blown-in insulation, and that's what this house is. And that's why it gets cold at night - there was inadequate insulation, and a family of raccoons ate the insulation that was inside the roof. But there are families with kids, and teenagers who want to go out wearing a Sexy Lady Cop costume. And it's fun for me to see the costume ideas, and the kids like it when an adult actually hands out the treats. And it gives me a chance to think of a costume for myself - although many times the "costume" has been something from my normal wardrobe, like the silver-metallic pants and the crown of battery-powered "fairy lights" in my purple hair.