Backtalk: A Medium Place
How goes your ghoulish fun, if you are celebrating Halloween today? All the little goblins have started coming 'round, and I'm curious to see how many will be out tonight. So far, mostly preteen ghosties (and princesses, clowns, & Marvel characters) have stopped by.
However many show up, I've got:
• pumpkin carved (not my best effort, but still cheerfully toothy)
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Bill and Ben were never like this! Is this the sacrifice the Great Pumpkin demands for Halloween? Last week there was a strange fluid emanating from the monster pumpkins at work. I wonder what's was under all those golden balls?
Got any plans for Nos Galan Gaeaf or Samhain?
Here's a couple of videos and pics from our trip to Prince Edward County. Kia met a horse! She was quite excited when we walked up to the field and she could see the horses; she made her "hoo hoo hoo" hello noise. And the beetles in the first video are box elder beetles, which were swarming at that time
Wednesday is back again. Who is ready to get spooooooky this weekend? I bought so much candy to pass out!
Time for a discussion to compare our different views on various subjects of the world.
Good morning, all, and welcome to the last week of October. What spooky revelations of wisdom do you hope to uncover?
There's absolutely no chance Alice would have the patience for this, but it would be very cute.
Whoever wrote this "definitive" ranking of Halloween candy must've been on a sugar high. They put Tootsie Rolls ahead of Smarties, M&M, and Twizzlers. This is clearly a wrong opinion. https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/best-worst-halloween-candy
What would you keep and what would you trade?
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
I think – if we’re not already there – that we have no choice to assume that the MSM isn’t telling us the truth at all, ever, about anything … especially when it comes to what Big Business / Big Pharma / Big Medicine are concealing about things like working conditions, Americans’ health generally, voting rights, voting access, reproductive healthcare access … basically anything that the current U.S. Democrats are trying to fix, and that the “Dickens class”, if you will, not only wants to drag us all back there but wants some of us not just to have less than nothing but not to be unhappy about it.
It's real easy for me to be cynical and shit on most everything. But this movie has a magic to it. It captures the essence of what it was like to be in the theater when I was 9 or 10 years old, not in a nostalgic sense, but when the lights came down and my dopey little face was fed big ideas through the medium of sci-fi fantasy writ large on the silver screen. Rewiring my neurons. Fucking around with my brain chemistry. Haven't felt that way in a long time. Now that I do, I am positively ecstatic. I don't want to suggest this heralds some sort of cinematic renaissance. I don't want to make it out be something more than it is. But what it is, is confirmation that films like these can still have big things to say. They can be possessed by complex ideas and strangeness while still fitting comfortably in a megaplex.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/03/dune-review-denis-villenueve-venice-film-festival
Good evening.
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| Halloween III: Season of the Witch was released on this date, 1982. |
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Hello and happy Fur Face Friday, everyone, at the end of a long autumn (depending on your hemisphere) week. Last week was just full of the kind of pets you wish for. Kinda like Krispy’s shelter cat friend Dennis.
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If you're not ready for Halloween, you've still got some time to carve your turnip.
Long before the pumpkin became the Halloween decoration of choice, people across the Britain carved ghoulish faces into turnips and placed them near doorways to frighten away evils spirits, the charity said.
The practice originated from an Irish folk tale about a man named Jack who, after trying to trick the devil, was cursed to roam the earth with only a burning coal held inside a hollowed-out turnip. - Carve a turnip
So if you didn't have big plans for this weekend, maybe you do now.
It's getting chilly and fall-like here! The leaves are gorgeous and we are expecting seven straight days of rain! How are things where you are?
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| We have a whole posse of these dudes patrolling the neighborhood daily. |
Every week a different topic, every week a different chance to learn more about each other. This is what Parley Vous Mondays are all about.
Morning, all. Have a seat for a moment and tell us your big dreams and/or small hopes for the week ahead.
I'm conserving my energy for tomorrow, when I'll play my first hockey league game in two years. It starts around my bedtime (after 9pm! ack!) so I'm loafing now in anticipation. How are you preparing for your week? Post below... I'm all ears!
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Hello and happy Sunday, all. Does your cup runneth over or has it just tipped and given up altogether?
Cover of the NYT Mag - and the artist IINM is Basi Butler
One thing we're doing tonight is mini-focusing on Aaliyah in part because someone in the TL pointed out how he'd forgotten how good she was.
The other month a little black kitten with red collar took a peek into the storeroom at work. Then she ran away when she saw I had spotted her. So cute. Her name is Betty and she sometimes follows her owner to the shops. Lots of covert surveillance of what the humans get up to. Come in and say hello Betty.
Good evening.
It's Friday evening again. Watching anything especially good? Anything good and scary? Tell us how you're going to "release the hounds" this weekend.
I wish that every day was Saturday and every month October - Charmaine J Forde
Well, I wish that every day was Fur Face Friday and that all dogs wore shades like Sailor Jupiter's Scruffy
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