~The Deadbodys, at church on Halloween evening~
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Shouldn't one sit back and reflect on such an important holiday? Perhaps review a bit, take some notes, write a poem, plan for next year? Such reflection sounds better than obsessing over one's worries: a looming grant deadline, a looming birthday, a whole batch of looming decisions [about one's father and one's career and one's home and one's family (who is still finding their footing after it's matriarch passed away)], a head cold from hell and ...see? You are bored already.
So - Halloween 2009 recapping it will be!
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~Airstream kitchen window shrunken heads~
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The Airstream was decorated minimally this year - two heads hanging in the kitchen window (it's amazing how two $1.50 heads from CVS Pharmacy can entertain me). Yes, once again, heads (or the lack thereof) was a continuing theme...
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~Lily the Pencil~
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Is this not the sweetest, scariest, most realistic pencil in the whole wide world?
That most certainly is not Lily, but I'm told that it is.
(Lily is a budding biologist, fellow lover of Halloween, and forever in my heart because of a lovely little prayer).
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~Vincent Van Gogh~
~John Stewart~
~Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining'~
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The eclair-baking postdoc (yes, the one who hasn't brought us eclairs in a long, long time) is one of those fancy pumpkins carvers. A skilled one in fact. He sent me these images of his three selections this year (and forgive me, but doesn't 'John Stewart' look an awful lot like Vladimir Putin?).
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~the lab's senior graduate student (newly appointed) in her Halloween socks~
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A few years ago, a friend came to the lab one morning when I wasn't there, and placed a brain in the lab's 'deli box' - he was like a Halloween 'easter bunny, hiding Halloween-themed socks all over the place. Every now and then a pair still surfaces, as demonstrated by the feet of the lab's senior graduate student.
My lab is very patient with my Halloween silliness, in fact - perhaps it's been a subconscious screening tool that I've been using all these years?
Now that's a thought.
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~Mr Sperman and SuperSperm~
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Now how does one transition from Halloween-themed socks to Mr Sperman and SuperSperm?
I'll just leave this one alone (and no - I wasn't at the party).
However the lab's newly minted Ph.D., Mr Sperman, was.
(I hope that Mr Sperman is wrapping up his dissertation edits as I'm typing this.)
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Each Halloween, Mr. and Mrs. Deadbody are spotted roaming the streets of Charleston, on their way to church on Halloween night. They're a delightful pair, aren't they? Rumor has it that they were both poets in the day - he a writer of magical tales, she a teller of family stories and famed observor of the Day of the Dead.
Did you happen to see them too? I hope so.
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~Jeff the dead...lumberjack or something or other~
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So what does a Halloween sock Easter Bunny look like? Does he have floppy ears? No, no, no. Does he hop? Heavens no!
A Halloween sock Easter Bunny looks dead, no he is dead - more like undead - so watch out for him next Halloween. If you are lucky, he might bring you a pair of socks too.
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