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October 24, 2005

boo.

Suddenly it's fall. Turning, falling leaves, a chilly breeze from the north, cold rain; yesterday I turned on the heat for the first time. Moo and Herself are watching Scream 2 in the other room--some cable channel's nod to the first holiday of the season, broadcasting what passes for frightening nowadays, but it's all crap. "Face it, Mom," says Moo, "there are no scary monster movies. Nothing is scary." I know he's right when I find myself thinking about Halloween with nostalgia--Jamie Lee Curtis in the closet hiding from the boogeyman, I love that part. And I remember how cheated I felt when I first saw it in the theater, it was just so cheesy and bad; it was the same way I felt when I first saw Space Ghost as a kid and realized the old, thoughtful ways were being shunted aside to make room for dreck. Nothing is scary, and yet it just keeps on comin' at ya, like the plate of breakfast in Count Floyd's 3-D House of Pancakes.

Herself's best friend has decided to become a vegetarian. Apparently she came to the decision today during lunch at school, while eating a salad that had pepperoni in it; her conscience bothered her when she thought of "the little pigs" being turned into lunch meat. "Hey, I'd be sad if somebody turned Spike into chow," said Herself, "but I could never be vegetarian because I love cow too much, and sushi. Life just wouldn't be worth living if I couldn't eat that stuff."

What makes life worth living, anyway? Rain on a new roof, a quiet house, the birthday present I got from my sister--a mug with the characters from Nightmare Before Christmas on it--a glass of good cabernet, the day ending. Last night I went to dinner and ate so much I got a backache. Talked and drank and laughed, came home too late and woke up in the morning still full from the night before. What makes life worth living, anyway? A good scare:
The Shining
Session 9
The Innocents
The Haunting
The Sixth Sense
The Blair Witch Project
The Exorcist
Alien
Blue Velvet.

Posted by JudyLa at 11:30 PM | Comments (0)