Halloween!! I also enjoy Thanksgiving because it involves food!!
How do you celebrate that holiday?
By dressing up!! Last year I was DeBorah the Huntress and Stephen was Robin Hood!!
Gratitude
I know the question was not included but I just wanted to say I’m grateful that I was able to spend time with my brother Stephen and that we were able to enjoy two movies. Both Captain America | Civil War and the X-Men Apocalypse were good action filled films! I’m also grateful that today I was able to see a performance by Dance Africa a program put on every year at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). This year’s featured African country was Senegal. The dancers performed both traditional and modern African Dance! They were outstanding!!
“…I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I’m more powerful…”
—Olivia Munn
Real or made up. A super hero can be anybody. The lady next door who devotes her time to the needy, our soldiers across the seas or like our heroes growing up we can write about Batman or Wonder Woman. A super hero can take many forms. Lets write about them this week!
Every Halloween my brother Stephen and I become Super Heroes. Halloween is my favorite holiday because you can not only dress in costume but it’s okay to walk around the city in that costume with your new though temporary Identity. For a long time I went with a feline theme thus I was Cat Woman channeling Eartha Kitt for several Halloweens. As you can see I greatly enjoyed my Cat Woman and Tigeress Avatars! Stephen won Best Costume in 2011 for his Scarecrow Costume!! in 2013/2014 Stephen was a Sailor aka like the kid on the Cracker Jack box for those of you old enough to remember the caramel popcorn with the toy surprise. Obviously for those of you living on the East Coast of the United States Hurricane Sandy put the kibosh on Halloween that year. Some photos were taken at Stephen’s training center AABR in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Sailor Stephen
Sailor StephenStephen as ScarecrowEbony Panther
Me as the Black PantherStephen as Scarecrow. Me as Cat Woman.Halloween 2013 ~ Year of the Tiger!!Me channeling Cat Woman Halloween 2011
My Avatar ~ Cat Woman
This past summer Stephen with his Group Home residence had visited The New York Renaissance Faire located in Tuxedo, New York. So together we decided on variations of a Renaissance Theme. I re-imagined Diana the Huntress as DeBorah the Huntress, a combination of the Hunger Games and the Goddess Diana. So I become the Goddess DeBorah acting out my incarnation as Huntress Protector of the Forest. Stephen transformed from a Sailor into the Black Robin Hood! This is what ensued.
Halloween Last Year 2014. Actually Stephen wore this costume for both Halloween 2013 and 2014. This year I decided he needed a new costume. Stephen went to see Renaissance Faire in upstate New York so we decided on a semi-Renaissance theme for this years Halloween. By today’s end or at least tomorrow morning Get Ready to see the Super Sibs become Ladies and Knights of yore!
Cracker Jack Popcorn & Peanuts
Sailor Stephen
Last year I went as a Black Panther, the animal not the radical group from the 60s! This year with Stephen’s input I decided to ditch the animal themes and Go Forth as a Huntress. Stephen will be a Robin Hood with Soul!!
I’ve decided to concentrate on good and positive things instead of the drama I’ve been going through for over two years. There is very little I can do with my current situation concerning FMLA and Guardianship for Stephen. Basically the Human Resources person has had me jumping through hoops like a trained monkey. Sometimes I feel like I’m on a not so Merry-Go-Round which speeds up when it gets to the brass ring with me nearly falling on my face trying to catch the distant prize.
I do Thank my DC 37 Union Reps for standing by my side during this extremely stressful time of my life.
I dedicate this song to evil selfish wicked H.R. (Human Resources staff). Be aware that H.R. is only there to protect the organization. The needs of the institution will always come before the needs of the employees.
The Foundations – Build me up
Dilbert and Catbert the Evil H.R. Director
More or less I’m beating my head against a brick wall. In order not to wind up in the hospital again (I spent two weeks in the psych ward of Kings County Hospital for nervous exhaustion. Not a good way to spend Palm Sunday and Easter.) I realize I have to stop allowing my job to make a complete fool out of me. Now I can laugh somewhat at my former incarceration in the mental ward but while I was in the I was in complete fear for my life and was glad to get out. After they shove enough anti-psychotic drugs down your gullet life may not be beautiful but the doctors have succeeded in making you submissive and robotic.
Napoleon XIV: ‘They’re coming to take me away’
Yes there is always hope, probably false hope but all that’s done is cause me daily stomachaches, chronic insomnia and tears. Best to lower my expectations that way I won’t be hurt or disappointed.
Vampire Smiley
Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes of the Brokenhearted (HQ) [They become Crazy Cat Ladies!!]
The Main Ingredient-Everybody Plays The Fool
Now for the Happy Stuff
Okay now that’s out of the way onto Halloween. In this post I’ll be including photos from past Halloweens. One year Stephen won 1st Prize for best costume. He was dressed as a Scarecrow. The only year Halloween came to an abrupt stop was 2012 when Hurricane Sandy devastated the states of New York and New Jersey.
This year Stephen is going to be Robin Hood. Yes folks a Black Robin Hood. Robin Hood got Soul!! LOL!! And I will be a Huntress!! I will be posting this years Halloween costumes for 2015 in next weekend’s Blog Post!
Halloween 2013 ~ Year of the Tiger!!Me channeling Cat Woman Halloween 2011My Avatar ~ Cat Woman
Stephen as Scarecrow
Bobby Pickett “Monster Mash”
One Eyed one Horned Flying Purple People Eater
Werewolves Of London
A few years ago I dated a guy who could have passed for a Werewolf. This guy had hair growing out of his back!! In fact he had everywhere except on his head where he was going bald!! Go Figure. Anyway he was a nice guy but too hirsute for me.
Original GhostBusters Theme Song
When this movie came out I actually stood on line for over an hour to get my album signed by Ray Parker Jr. That brother was so fine that when I finally got to the front and he asked me my name I nearly forgot!! I would not mind at all if I woke up one morning and Ray was in my bed! LOL!!
Don’t know if there were other beings. So far no one I’ve queried has dyed-in-the-wool knowledge of their existence.
The Doors – People Are Strange
Measuring about 4’8” they had gray-green eyes and a snarled mess of teal blue hair that fell from their heads to their ankles. A race of Cousin Its who had escaped from the Addams Family and mated with Smurfette. Every so often there would be a great divide within these walking haystacks when tentacles would emerge, grasp the being nearest to them all the while emitting spores that enabled them to engage in a type of conjugal bliss harmonizing their universe and populating future cosmos. Egg donors pushed out womb offerings for the spores’ consummation.
You must allow the bed to take you. It’s the only way. Pollination. Germination. Fruit. Appendages.
Steles push up granite flowers. Stone Flowers. Stillborn. Alien stillborns cry out for vindication.
He’s just a middle-aged painted Lolita straining to call forth the waiting semen amidst a garden of extraterrestrial after-births.
The Beatles – The Fool On The Hill
Sulky gargoyles indulged in the meadow.
State bed
Date: ca. 1698
Culture: British
Medium: Wood, covered in blue silk damask
Dimensions: 12 ft. × 6 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. (365.8 × 198.1 × 152.4 cm)
Sometimes I would watch as they chased and caught smaller humanoid beings decapitating them with a lassoed tentacle tug then planting their tiny heads as seeds with the promise of a shrunken head springtime crop during the moon’s 6th ellipses. Tasty. Delicious. Like brussel sprouts sauteed in olive oil.
Gathering at the ceremonial castle they marched in sync howling chanting:
Babbling Bitches have me in stitches.
The Babble of the rabble gives rise to bewitches.
On and on a series of feet stampeding through Wonderland. Wheelers keeping an uneven but steady tempo.
Aristocratic corpses shimmer in glee.
A dead Mariachi Band Member dances for filthy lucre.
The Cyclist body lay crumpled between sighing posts. Mangled beyond recognition. His bike wheels spinning waiting for its riders return. He was the color of repose.
Ahhh…. Look at All the Lonely People. Where do they come from? Where do they all belong?
Beatles- Eleanor Rigby
Somebody needs to check to see if Elvis is in the alligator. For there is an umbrella that will take you to the 13th floor.
We come from a long line of Firestarters, feeling nostalgic for another self but knowing that those above gather the fallen cinders.
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit 