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There are endless varieties of Halloween costumes for babies, children, teens, and young adults. It doesn't matter if you're the type of parent who is more conservative (those cleavage-showing costumes which have no place in your daughter's closet or under your roof at all), or if you're a bit more liberal with what your children are allowed to wear for Halloween (a vampire with a blood red pentagram patched into your teens forehead wouldn't bother you at all), there is ...
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Some people choose Halloween costumes that are classics and have been around forever and will continue to stand the test of time. Other people choose a trendy Halloween costume related to current events, politics, or popular characters of that year. But nothing dictates Halloween costumes more than which blockbuster movies were released that year! Here is a list of the most popular Halloween costumes of the past five years.
2004 – The year 2004 was all about Spiderman with 2.15 million ...
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Halloween can be a frightening experience for your dog or other pets. From the constant ding of the doorbell, to the many people out and about, and all the little hands that inevitably reach for him, there are many things aside from ghouls and goblins that can frighten your pup. Compound that fear with the reality that some dogs are skittish or anxiety-ridden, and well Halloween is right up there with fireworks and thunderstorm.
Instead of dreading the day, use the ...
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Almost everyone recognizes that science fiction and horror are frequently used as tools for social commentary. We have all seen many issues argued in distant times and places with a variety of alien and human solutions or non-solutions. Sometimes though, stories are written that can be re-interpreted in ways not intended by the author (or perhaps it is, and that is the joke on us!)
Let us explore, for example, the movie Alien. When I first saw it at the drive-in ...
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Outside the Manitoba morning sky was an acrylic palette of blended hues; reds, oranges, yellows; all highlighted by golden light. The morning sun lit a world filled with buds and shoots hungering for the caress of the fiery orb rising higher.
Steven sipped his coffee, his kitchen forgotten as he stared out of the picture window. It was best to start long days early, but to forget to stop and see the world was a sin he would no longer commit. ...
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Next to their own birthday and Christmas morning, there's little that kids anticipate as anxiously as Halloween. And why shouldn't they? With fall carnival rides, pumpkins to carve, huge quantities of delicious, sticky goodies, and a few thrill-giving scares, Halloween has all the makings of a childhood favorite. Even some grown-ups grow secretly giddy when volunteering to lead the neighborhood trick-or-treat group. And the most important question to answer in the weeks leading up to the ...
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by Sheila Wheeler
Ding Dong.
“Trick-or-treat!”
So begins the yearly procession of witches, vampires, movie stars and super heroes visiting door to door in search of candy and cookies. As with most traditions, trick-or-treating has evolved over centuries and is likely to continue to do so.
Kids’ holiday? Good reason for both adults and kids to get dressed up? Satan worship? Halloween and trick-or-treating have been considered all these things. It is the only day of the year when we give free food to ...
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Adapted by Steve Chavez a.k.a. Wraith
Everyone in Boo-ville liked Halloween a lot...
But the Grinch, who wrote for a newspaper, did NOT!
The Grinch hated Halloween! The whole Halloween season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his childhood just didn’t go right.
It could be his neighbor’s candy generosity was too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his Halloween spirit was two sizes too small.
But, whatever the reason, his spirit ...
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