Halloween Stories

Yep. That's me on Halloween a couple of days ago. Yeah, yeah. Not all that exciting after all of the build up. I went with "Kung Fu Zombie". What? I was killed in battle and arose from the dead for vengeance! See the scar across my eye? My opponent got a quick slash in before a horde of ninja's attacked me. Yeah, it took a horde to take me down. I was that bad ass in life. And even badder ass in death!

Joe did a bang up job on the zombie make up for both of us. Once we got our make up and costumes on, we were ready to roll! Joe lives up in Harlem on the ground floor of a brownstone. You have to open a gate and walk 3 steps down to get to his door. He had cobwebs, spiders, and other spooky stuff all outside. Scary music was playing in the window. The front door was left open and covered by a black sheet so we could sneak in and out. We set up and waited the neighborhood kiddies!

First few were brave and came straight down. We stayed in character the whole time. Walking slow, groaning, etc. We had candy in our hands and slowly passed it out. Some kids were really scared though! Some parents too! One kid was crying and his mom held him and acted like she was going to force him down there! Nice. Mother of the year! Another mom told her frightened kids, "What you scared for? We live in the 'hood!" Later on, a group of about 15 or so 8-10 year olds descended upon us. Yet, they still weren't sure what to make of us. None would come down the stairs. They kept daring each other. They thought we might eat them! Over all, the kids were great and we all had a blast. A lot of Joe's neighbors kept coming by and saying how cool it was and how we were the best on the block. We scared some kids. We made some laugh. We entertained and gave out candy! Successful and fun!

Later, I met up with my friend, Emily, to go to a haunted house called Blood Manor. 2 of our regular and loyal listeners of my podcast, COMIC NEWS INSIDER, were involved in it. Dark Spider and her hubby, Ruben, support us so I thought I'd support them! We had to wait in line for about an hour. We had a bunch of idiot kids probably 18-21 years old in front of us who seriously debated time. Yeah. One of them tells his friends that it's 12:30 a.m. (the event stopped at 1:00 a.m.) and why bother waiting in line. Another person says it's 11:30 p.m. Which was correct. Mr. 12:30 a.m. insists. "It's 12:30! I have Nextel! It automatically changes the time when there's a time change." Literally, a few of us kept saying, "It's 11:30!" He kept insisting and even had one of his friends call another friend to check the time. Yep, 11:30. Wow. This is our youth. At least it entertained us while we waited.

Also entertaining us me, was all of the stereotypical female sexy slutty outfits. Slutty nurse. Slutty cop. Slutty Rainbow Brite. Slutty doctor. Slutty cab driver. Slutty teacher. Slutty zombie. Slutty Batgirl. Slutty Supergirl. Slutty angel. Slutty devil. Slutty pirate. Slutty air traffic controller. Slutty soccer mom. Slutty construction worker. Etc. Did I mention that this is the greatest holiday ever?

Blood Manor was about what I expected. A bunch of different rooms with people jumping out to scare you. Thing is though, they aren't really scaring you. They're just startling you. Still, a lot of creativity went behind it. Very cool 3-D moment at the end. A funny moment was when we walked into a hospital room. A cute girl was pretending to eat a severed hand. I guess she had bit that fake hand so much that it started to fray. She got a piece in her mouth and audibly said, "Ewwwww." We caught eyes and both started cracking up. Needless to say, that room lost all creepiness, but it was funny!

We passed Dark Spider (yep, that's her over there) during the walk through and on the way out. She was outside at the exit about to walk back in. Someone in a zombie mask was next to her. We had never met, so I leaned in and whispered to her, "It's Jimmy from Comic News Insider." She looked at me for a minute. Maybe she didn't hear me. And then the zombie mask guy groans all zombie like, "Cooooommicccc Neeeewwwsssss...." and then points at himself, "Rrruuuuuubbbbeeeennnnn!!!" Awesome! It was her hubby, Ruben! Very funny and cool!

Best Halloween in years! How was yours?

Comments

[mike.]

Sounds fun, but the only haunted house things worth going to are those Christian ones where they dramatize the horrors of pre-marital sex and smoking da ganj.