Eve of All Saints...

To all my dear friends, to all Demon Hunters, ghosts, anthropomorphic mythologial entities, sorcerers, spirits, witches, sons of bitches, troubled and heroic souls:
Happy Halloween!

Halloween...

I've been decorating my place for Halloween.

I look out the window, and it's the perfect day. Cloudy. Rainy, but not raining right now. The wind is blustering and blowing, so the black limbs of the trees are waving orange, yellow and brown leaves. Sometimes I see leaves being tossed by a gust of wind, and falling in scattered clusters. The brown-and-brick house across the street, which usually looks perky and preppy, seems positively haunted.

And the gutters are full of yellow leaves.

Time of day, time of year...

The witching hour approaches. And the time change, too. Seems to me there ought to be some elegant Latinate name for that, besides just "the day we turn the clocks forward".

A Very Supernatural Halloween...

This evening I had a Supernatural Halloween party. Donna had never seen the show before, and we managed to watch and episode that lunacy_gal hadn't seen before. lunacy_gal was the Woman in White; maaseru was delightful as the Tooth Fairy's Fairy Godmother (did I get that right?), and Donna came as (I loved this) Gwen Cooper from Torchwood.

We watched:

1. The Pilot
2. A Very Supernatural Christmas
3. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4. Tall Tales
5. Lazarus Rising
6. I Believe the Children Are Our Future

Donna, as I had hoped, took to the show and understood its style and nuances perfectly. She even won my variation of the Supernatural Drinking Game, called ( Supernatural Yahtzee! )

I also decorated brown paper bags with Supernatural pictures and filled them with treats and toys. And I decorated my apartment with tombstones, posters of Sam and Dean, orange streamers, balloons, and candles. Many of them were battery-operated candles which maaseru bought at Costco, and they looked wonderful. They have the advantage that you can use them in places where a real candle would set fire to something. I put one of these flameless candles in place of my dragon's crystal ball on top of the harp; one with the figure of the Templar knight on my DVD shelf; one in my Ikea lantern; they were great. They look particularly good in cut or coloured glass candle holders.

And my new television? Gorgeous.