Ms. McEto returned from the store this afternoon and brought a bag of the wonderous Candy Corn!!! Yeah!!! This stuff is around all year, but never like it is this time of year!!! Yum Yum, gimme some! I’m pretty sure that I ate more than she did, but the bag is gone never the less… man I love this stuff.
Oh, guess I’d better hurry and finish my costume soon!
I was in the store and I couldn’t believe my eyes. I pinched myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. But there the still sat on the shelf. Orange jack o’lantern and fluffy white ghostie gobs of sugar crusted marshmallows. Yes, Peeps have halloween shapes!
Halloween shapes too…sorry was a little excited there.
Brood, sounds like a very cool costume. Take some pics to post when you finish it 
Brood, I saw four of those at Dragon Con. They are very cool.
Candy corn and Reeses Peanut Butter Pumpkins. Oh! Time to start making popcorn balls and candy apples!
Yummmm…
Peeps?
Halloween Peeps?
HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I think I shall be bringing Peeps to OhDope. To slay them. For I am…
THE PEEPSLAYER!!!
HAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
[sub]ask UncleBeer or Shadowfox what I’m talking about. They know. They saw.[/sub]
I’m gonna go as Torg.
I LOVE Halloween! And costumes! And trick-or-treating! And candy corn! And Peeps, too!
I can’t wait I can’t wait I can’t wait!!!
I’m wondering.
Halloween lights?
Do we really need these? How many sets of lights do we need to put on our houses?
I thought for sure when I saw the title of this thread, the inside would say:
…because the stores have their Christmas shit out already!
I’m kinda excited - this will be the first year we’ll have lots of little beggars coming to our door. We always lived in areas where trick-or-treating was discouraged either by the community association or because we were on a major county highway. Last year, our development was not developed enough, but now the street is overrun with young 'uns!! I can’t wait! I’m even gonna spring for good candy - not the cheap generic junk my mom usta give out…
WooHoo!!
You’d better keep a close watch on those Peeps at OhDope, Persephone. I am legendary for my Peep consuming abilities. My life is one long Peep search-and-destroy mission. Behold, I have become Death, consumer of Peeps.
Mmmmmm…Peeps.
I like the ones with chocolate.
How do I know it’s September?
Big honkin’ Christmas decorations and 5 lb. bags of candy at Sam’s Club! Woohoo! 4-foot tall Santas and wire reindeer with moving head! Big sacks of Chewy Kid Candy Mix! Tree stands the size of tractor tires (the big ones, that is)!
Where I live, kids are imported for Halloween. Lots of condos arranged in a large semicircle is perfect for parents who want a safe place and kids who want lots of candy. I always hate to leave, to turn out the light and leave the remainder of the 8 bags or more of indiv. wrapped sugar highs to the next less-than-ethical pre-teen to come by. A necessary evil, that, as the end of providing is the start of the night for me…
I count myself lucky to have been to many Halloween meccas (or at least they seemed so to me)
- Athens, Ohio, where groups of Oriental tourists who somehow got that towns annual block-off-the-streets party on their travelogue videotape the thousands of college students and general partiers, many of whom had put weeks of work into their costumes, convivially fraternize either under the influence of any of the best known hallucinagens, lots of alcohol, or strangely enough even sober. Most edifying.
- Austin, TX, where Halloween is a more than single night affair where 6th St. is closed to traffic for many blocks in the club district for costumed fun, where your end of the night destination could be an s&m themed nightclub w/live piercing shows and a whole lotta leather, a soft-core strip club, a meat market club, or a Greek-columnaded classical themed hotel with genuine steer-hide couches and Remington cowboy sculpture appointments w/ equal probabilities.
- Madison, Wisc., generally like Athens but with more beer and less ‘other’, also worse costumes.
- Chapel Hill, NC, usually with good music and good people.
Can’t wait to see where I’ll be this year.
Somewhere out there, someone owns a picture of me at last year’s Toledo Fest.
I am smiling proudly, and holding a sword–yes, a sword–with a freshly-barbecued Peep on the end. 
Peeps have feared me ever since.
::: carefully hiding my Peeps :::
I’ve got loads o’ clothes in a special dress-up closet. Ostensibly, the dress-up closet is kept for my 11-year-old daughter and her friends, but the careful observer would note that each and every item in said closet is in my size. So now I have to decide what combination of nifty things I already have can be cobbled together to make up a great costume.
So… Halloween costumes? What have you got planned?