You know, I'm just not that excited about Halloween this year.....

[Wetzelbill]

Granted, it's months away and I am 32, but still. All that candy. I have no enthusiasm anymore.

[fizzgig]

1. i am determined to make this one good

i can't even remember the last time i had any fun on halloween...i think i've already decided on my costume

[Wetzelbill]

4. I might just go and steal candy from 2nd graders this year

I want no part of the third graders though. Maybe when I'm older.

What is your costume?

[fizzgig]

6. old school newspaper reporter

the bad suit (although i will sex it up a bit), complete with hat with the press card in it, a flask of whiskey and a pack of unfiltered lucky strikes. and i'll say shit like 'hey chief, boy do i have scoop for ya. we're gonna blow the lid off this caper.'

i work for a newspaper, so it seems fitting. and my friends are gonna get a kick out of it

[Wetzelbill]

7. that. is. freakin'. awesome.

I barely made it past the "sex it up" part. :)

I might dress up as my alter ego, El Fandango. We'll see. :)

So what do you do at the paper?

[fizzgig]

8. el fandango?

i'd be interested in seeing that :)

i cover death, murder, fire, mayhem, misery and destruction. in other words, i'm a cops reporter (with the occasional school board meeting thrown in)

i swear, i'm part of a dead breed. the day of the chain-smoking, hard-drinking reporter is dead and here i am, swimming in a sea of puritanical prudeness at work

[Wetzelbill]

9. yes, I imagine El Fandango would be dressed like a pachuco

Zoot Suit and all that jazz.

Damn, if I wasn't trying to make an athletic comeback I would definitely go party with you. As it stands, I am practically a saint. But this always wasn't so. :)

I used to be an opinions columnist. Newspaper stuff isn't my gig. I am much better at fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting and a little poetry too. But I dig women who write. Something about the written word. :)

[fizzgig]

10. zoot suit?

verra nice :)

i went into journalism partly because i'm a frustrated fiction writer who wanted to make just a bit more than a meager living.

my best writing is the disjointed stream of consciousness i produce from time to time. not really stories, but not really poetry either. i will say, much to my disappointment, my job has killed a lot of my creativity, but i'm still lucky enough to find it on occasion

[Wetzelbill]

11. yeah, I figure I'll just be a struggling artist forever

Although, I suppose I'll try to get a job in policy or teaching or something like that and do the artistic stuff on the side.

I would think properly done you could use quite a bit of what you learn reporting and shape that into some good fiction. I can see how it would kill the creativity though. It's a more rigid straightforward type of writing.

My best stuff, it's probably my creative nonfiction stuff nowadays. I am a solid poet, not totally my thing though. I always felt short fiction is what I was best at, but it just seems my nonfiction work has blown by it, so who knows. I guess will find out when I finish my first short story collection. :)

[fizzgig]

12. i've got plenty of material

it's more that i put all of my energy toward work all day that i lack the energy to work on my personal writing when i get home. i've got pages and pages and pages of notes but i don't have the energy to get it together

but, then again, i'm a lazy bum :)

[Wetzelbill]

13. that sounds familiar

especially the lazy bum part. :)

[trof]

14. With the reet pleat! I'm hep.

:-)

[wildhorses]

2. last year i put a couple of watches on my wrist

and went as a two-timer :shrug:

[Wetzelbill]

3. rimshot

:)

[wildhorses]

5. bah duh bump

;)

[Connonym]

15. It's because of the war on Halloween

Fundies taking the heathen out of halloween and destroying it's true meaning. We need to put the druids back in Halloween! And we need a catchier phrase for doing it!