Spitball Army

I feel certain that the mob of local citizens that I saw filling Party City this afternoon to the point of tick-fullness has just materialized on my street. Screaming and running and chatter and color combinations one rarely sees the other 364 days of the year – that’s what’s happening. Currently, a ghost-boy and a […]

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I see my next door neighbor on his porch this morning and holler a hello. “What are you dressing up as tonight?” he asks me because, you know, it’s Halloween. “As a next door neighbor,” I respond, and he laughs. “How about you?” “I’m gonna be a bitter old man,” he answers, and I laugh, […]

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Rickwood Field was built in the west side of Birmingham in 1910 – in the area near what is now referred to as Ensley – to house the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro League. Its 104 years of age apparently makes it the oldest surviving pro baseball park in America. How lucky are we […]

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Here’s my Halloween mix! he says: I’m Your Boogie Man; Jungle Boogie; Boogie Nights. Thus am I horrified by discotheque spectres.

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Approximate playing time: 79 minutes.

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And there’s that girl again, who I last time refered to as the Glenn Gould of in-store performances, singing along with all of the words.

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Recently, following a link from my friend Jonathan’s Facebook page to his MySpace page, I stumbled upon this (and another) video clip from the now-legendary Halloween 2007 midnight Laser’s Edge in-store performance by Josh Ritter.

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“The Vampire” (1967) by Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Observationist Lewis Black muses on Halloween and candy corn.

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“Skeleton Dance” (1929), a Disney Silly Symphony

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