The New Hobbit Hole

[JenB]

I believe the "water closet" was invented in the Victorian Era.

[JenB]

But - for breakfast?! Feed it to the cat!

[Overtaxed]

Anyone want to talk a little about your final plot, or anything like that?

But it's vampire night on TCM!

[JenB]

Can't you watch and freep at the same time?

I dislike most vampire novels... they seem to have so much potential but generally flawed executions - no pun intended!

[Sam Cree]

"But it's vampire night on TCM!"

+ Art Bell is having a ghost special.

[Sam Cree]

But - for breakfast?!"

With toast with the crust cut off, served in those toast racks they used back then...and still do in England.

[ksen]

I remember before I became a Christian I used to love reading horror books, especially vampire ones. I remember a scene from one that was set in modern day NYC.

One of the vampires was being chased and the sun was starting rise on him. The light hit one of his hands and he said "Jesus Christ!", as a cuss word of course, and his lips burned off. ;^)

[Corin Stormhands]

I believe the "water closet" was invented in the Victorian Era.

I grew up in the hills of SW VA. My grandparent's house had "outdoor plumbing" up until the 60s. Actually they had an indoor bathroom put in, probably in the 40s/50s. But my grandfather didn't think it was sanitary.

[Corin Stormhands]

But it's vampire night on TCM!

Young Frankenstein 8:00 p.m. (forgot the channel). Maybe I'll be on later Jen.

[SuziQ]

we'll see if we get any trick or treaters now. If not, what to do with the candy?

I hope you got some that you and the Mrs. like!

[JenB]

I was really, really bad one time and read all of Laurell K Hamilton's novels. Vampires, werewolves, sex, violence.... but I dislike horror, really. Can't see what people find in it.

I read an essay by C.S. Lewis only yesterday on SF and fantasy - don't remember the title - and his point was that we look for the glorious, the human and more-than-human, in stories.

Horror seems to me to go the other way. It's like those Hell-houses Corin mentioned. The Christian group on campus went to one last weekend but I just didn't feel right about it. For one thing, I don't plan to go to Hell, and "having fun" with it just isn't my thing. And there seems nothing bright and glorious, no echoes of a better thing, there. I'm not sure what I'm trying to say; but this night, are we closer to God for our parties and 'fun', or farther away?

[Sam Cree]

"I hope you got some that you and the Mrs. like!"

I do, of course.

We live at the end of a dark street + I have an "invisible fence," so my dogs (one of whom weighs over 100 lbs.) can walk anywhere on the property.

The first year we lived here (91) we only had one group of trick or treaters, the dogs treed 'em in the live oak at the end of the driveway.

Since "Andrew" it's not so dark anymore, alot of the trees were cleared away by the storm. We get some trick or treaters now. Just gave some some some Werters as I write.

Are you guys also set up with appropriate candy?

[ksen]

I understand what you are saying. We stopped celebrating Halloween about 10 years ago. We still get funny looks from our families.

I admire your backbone for doing what you believe is right, even in the face of your Christian friends. *bow*

[JenB]

Our house is at the top of a hill. We leave the place dark when we go out and so far... so good. When I was six, Dad was out of town and we were in a different house in a neighborhood, so Mom handed out candy. I was so scared of the teenage boys dressed as demons and slashers. Mom had to read Winnie-the-Pooh aloud to settled me down. But Pooh's good for that and I don't remember any nightmares.

[JenB]

'Taint backbone, we're just pigheaded!

[Overtaxed]

Who's Art Bell?

[Sam Cree]

As a small kid, and this dates back to the fifties, I loved my Mom to read me Pooh. My favorite character was Piglet, mainly because I liked the way he looked in the (beautiful) illustrations.

There's an old Eeyore stuffed animal laying around the house that used to be one of my kid's...for some reason, one of our smaller dogs likes it near him. Just like a kid, I guess.

It was teenaged boys that just came here, but they behaved well, they had nice teenaged girls with them.

[JenB]

Piglet's cute, but I am very fond of Pooh, the "Bear of very little brain".

[Overtaxed]

I dislike most vampire novels... they seem to have so much potential but generally flawed executions

Have you read Dracula...the Bram Stoker one?

Anyway, they're starting with a silent picture from 1927, a couple from the early 30's, and the 1922 Nosferatu. I wonder if they'll have that extra creepy soundtrack with it.

[Sam Cree]

"My grandparent's house had "outdoor plumbing" up until the 60s."

Man, it gets cold in that part of the country in winter.