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Happy Samhain aka All Hallows Eve or Halloween!
Oh goody, all these movies are coming to streaming...
Killers of the Flower Moon - Apple TV
Haunting in Venice - Hulu
Spiderman - Across the Spiderverse - Netflix
NYAD - about Diane Nyad - Netflix
The Killer - David Fincher (director) - Michael Fassbender - Netflix
Still waiting on Barbie ...
May re-watch Oppenheimer when it hits streaming.
Currently watching The Village Halloween Parade on NY1 - it's the fiftieth anniversary of the parade.
[I used to go to it in person way back in the 1990s. I don't think I've been to it since then. It was insanely crowded back then. Now, it's even more so - and apparently better lit. Back then, the media wasn't there, and you just showed up. NY1 wasn't around back in the 1990s. We just went and stood around, waited for the parade, and sometimes we'd just jump in, dress up, and join it. The Village's parade is the biggest parade in the country - and here's the thing? Anyone can join at any time. You can just pop in, as long as you're in costume - that's the only requirement, you have to be in costume. Some people spend a year working on their costumes, and there's acts. A friend of mine goes with her Belly Dancing Group and they dance in the parade (Halloween is her Birthday). She's a six-foot one Belly Dancer. There's about 10,000 or more at the parade and in it. NY Parades can get up to a million or more.]
( about the Parade )
Here's another article about it... Village Halloween Parade 50th Anniversary"
Over a million people come out to see the parade and 70,000 people participate. Plus, the parade is televised for people to watch from home. “We don’t advertise, we just put the word out,” said Fleming.
The theme of this year’s event is “Upside Down/Inside OUT,” and it’s an ode to what New Yorkers have gone through with the Covid-19 pandemic.
During past hard times, the parade has served as a constant in New York City, and a reason to come outside. “My job is to make it safe for people to dance in their g-string in the middle of New York,” joked Fleming. And she means that both figuratively and quite literally.
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I'd had a doctor's appointment at 3:15pm today, so took today off as a personal day. ( The day )
I like Halloween. I don't have to do anything. It arrives with little fan fair. It's just about candy, and scary, and honoring the dead. It's kind of humanity giving Death the finger. And it's kind of fun.
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As a child, I loved being scared at Halloween. We did haunted houses. Until my Dad lost his pipe and swore off them. (He was always losing his pipe in places - it was the 1970s). I loved the costumes. I loved trick or treating, and gathering the candy. I loved all of it. Including the decorations, the jack o lanterns. It's less fun now - I'm not into dressing up now. As a kid - my mother made our costumes, it's the only time she sewed. In 1976 - we wore Besty Ross, and a Revolutionary - in honor of the Bicentennial. In 1977 - I was a cheerleader. Once I was a farmer. I think I also was a ghost once.
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Finished The Discovery of Witches on MAX. S3 felt a bit shortened and had kind of lost its oomph. And in some respects, was the weakest of the three seasons pacing wise, and plot wise.
( Read more... )
Killers of the Flower Moon - Apple TV
Haunting in Venice - Hulu
Spiderman - Across the Spiderverse - Netflix
NYAD - about Diane Nyad - Netflix
The Killer - David Fincher (director) - Michael Fassbender - Netflix
Still waiting on Barbie ...
May re-watch Oppenheimer when it hits streaming.
Currently watching The Village Halloween Parade on NY1 - it's the fiftieth anniversary of the parade.
[I used to go to it in person way back in the 1990s. I don't think I've been to it since then. It was insanely crowded back then. Now, it's even more so - and apparently better lit. Back then, the media wasn't there, and you just showed up. NY1 wasn't around back in the 1990s. We just went and stood around, waited for the parade, and sometimes we'd just jump in, dress up, and join it. The Village's parade is the biggest parade in the country - and here's the thing? Anyone can join at any time. You can just pop in, as long as you're in costume - that's the only requirement, you have to be in costume. Some people spend a year working on their costumes, and there's acts. A friend of mine goes with her Belly Dancing Group and they dance in the parade (Halloween is her Birthday). She's a six-foot one Belly Dancer. There's about 10,000 or more at the parade and in it. NY Parades can get up to a million or more.]
( about the Parade )
Here's another article about it... Village Halloween Parade 50th Anniversary"
Over a million people come out to see the parade and 70,000 people participate. Plus, the parade is televised for people to watch from home. “We don’t advertise, we just put the word out,” said Fleming.
The theme of this year’s event is “Upside Down/Inside OUT,” and it’s an ode to what New Yorkers have gone through with the Covid-19 pandemic.
During past hard times, the parade has served as a constant in New York City, and a reason to come outside. “My job is to make it safe for people to dance in their g-string in the middle of New York,” joked Fleming. And she means that both figuratively and quite literally.
***
I'd had a doctor's appointment at 3:15pm today, so took today off as a personal day. ( The day )
I like Halloween. I don't have to do anything. It arrives with little fan fair. It's just about candy, and scary, and honoring the dead. It's kind of humanity giving Death the finger. And it's kind of fun.
**
As a child, I loved being scared at Halloween. We did haunted houses. Until my Dad lost his pipe and swore off them. (He was always losing his pipe in places - it was the 1970s). I loved the costumes. I loved trick or treating, and gathering the candy. I loved all of it. Including the decorations, the jack o lanterns. It's less fun now - I'm not into dressing up now. As a kid - my mother made our costumes, it's the only time she sewed. In 1976 - we wore Besty Ross, and a Revolutionary - in honor of the Bicentennial. In 1977 - I was a cheerleader. Once I was a farmer. I think I also was a ghost once.
***
Finished The Discovery of Witches on MAX. S3 felt a bit shortened and had kind of lost its oomph. And in some respects, was the weakest of the three seasons pacing wise, and plot wise.
( Read more... )
