11 November 2008

Halloween Party

I love Halloween, most likely because the only requirements for the holiday is to enjoy yourself and step out of the box. Nobody cares on Halloween if somebody sticks a box on their head, punches two holes through it for the eyes, then puts "Free Mammograms" on top with a thick pen; however, this activity is not suggested for any point in time other than Halloween.

This year's fun and games involved a contest of setting up the creepiest Halloween scene based on the props available. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a picture of everybody's costume. This was greatly impacted by the amount of beer and cocktails present.

Below are the pictures that were captured.

Halloween Party


Another fun thing we did was write a story throughout the evening - each line added having to include a word pulled from the pumpkin. It's a very strange story that must be shared. This story developed across several hours of drinking and involved many authors...one line at a time.

It was a dark and stormy night. The clouds swam like souless beasts on their hellish rounds. The large man, with his haunted eyes, prowled the yard outside the house. As he raised his goblet to his lips...and screamed as the eyes of the glowing pumpkins met his. He had a stormy surprise in his pants. The banshee grappled his haunted trousers. A woman would have to be drugged to be interested in that! But this woman had mixed up just the right batch in her groovy cauldron. And so she spoke the incantation and began her twisted ritual. As she pulled out her silvery dagger, he realized that she was a witch. He then wished to share the grave with the children of the dead. The witch stabbed with her dagger, and he began bleeding profusely. She shrieked and said "get the hell away from me!" Meanwhile, Wolfman had a surprise in store that he was planning. His latent homosexuality wasn't the only skeleton in his closet.

The Very Weird and Scary End.