Before I got to the age in my womanhood where Halloween was about fishnets and slutty nurse costumes, I was really into the holiday. One of my earliest memories is from Halloween. I was Trick-or-Treating in a store-bought Cookie Monster costume and fell pretty hard in front of some creep on stilts. My freshman year of high school, I wore this really serious Linda Blair Exorcist costume complete with dried pea soup on my K-Mart nightgown. My sophomore year I went as a journalist and continued to wear that guise straight through my undergraduate studies.
My favorite Halloween things are as follows: “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (but only the tricks-or-treats scene), “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett, Halloween 1 and 2, the Halloween songs I learned in elementary school music class that lyrics from inevitably show up in my friends’ Facebook statuses, Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins, and this classic SNL skit from 1998:
Happy Halloween everyone! I’ll be on Broad Street celebrating our hometown Phillies World Series win!
