If you’ve not gotten an email from us yet, and haven’t noticed the new link at the top of our site, then I want to point you all to the page for our 2008 Halloween party.

The theme this year is “Villains” and tickets are only $15. There are going to be a lot of fun surprises and twists, so if you enjoyed last year’s party, or have wanted to come to one of ours before, or just found this website and want to make a trip to Springfield, MO for a family friendly good time, then please, get tickets, start on your costume, and we’ll see you there!

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I think I’ve decided to do a “Winged Monkey” for Halloween next year. The parties theme is going to be “A Villains Conference” and I’m touted to be one of the “key note speakers”. I thought doing a monkey who’s trying to take over the world after the demise of his master would be so perfect! So, I’m going to adapt the Planet of the Apes I started 2 years ago to be a Winged Monkey.

My monkey will be a bit different than either the movie or the books, but, will be closer to the movie I’d say. Probably a bluish skinned creature that is very smart and opinionated.

Who knows though? Halloween 2008 is still a ways away and I don’t really need to start working on a costume until April.

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My brother Leland sent a link to his pictures from the Hogwarts Halloween party posted on Flickr. They are really good, and there’s some close ups of a few people I know I hadn’t seen yet as well.

Leland came as “the Crystal Wizard” Sy Okzeetoo (Sigh awk-ZEE-two) from the chemical symbol of quartz, SiO2. I thought that was a brilliant name! He even had business cards to hand out!

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Yes, I know, I’ve been posting a ton of videos from the TODAY show… but they had such a great Halloween day show that I have to share these!

This one is of the Mel Brook’s new Young Frankenstein Broadway production. The cast was there at Rockefeller Center and did a few numbers, this one got put online… and Celeste and I can’t stop signing (slash yodeling) it.

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In case you missed it today, which I’m sure a lot of you did, this morning on the hosts of NBC’s TODAY show dressed at “The Munsters,” and it was incredible!

Here’s a short little clip from the opening (which they also did an excellent job on).

“The Munsters” is something I’ve always wanted to dress up as for Halloween, but have never had the correct theme where it would fit. But, when / if I ever do it, this is now the standard by which I would measure myself by!So I just want to say, “Good job NBC staff, make-up, costume and set guys!”

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Tis the season for spooks and ghouls, and kids and candy, and dressing up, and having parties, and apples, and jack-o-lanterns, black cats, witches, full moons, goblins, midnight runs, and all sorts of other colorful language. So, with all those wonderful words swimming around in my head I thought I’d write a little poem all about Halloween.

An Ode to Halloween
It’s Halloween!
It’s Halloween!
It’s Halloween!
It’s HAL-LO-WEEEEEEEN!!!

I hope you enjoyed it.

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Wendy Leaumont send us a link to her pictures from the Hogwarts Halloween today.

Wendy came as Serena from Bewitched, and her husband (our friend) Dave came as Tim the Enchanter, from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. He actually made a head piece with real goat horns on it!

Pictured here are my mom and dad as Mother Goose and the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. There are lots of good ones, so go check them out!

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We did a lot to decorate and theme the party this year. From hanging jack-o-lanterns with invisible fishing line, to providing a hand made wand (thanks to Mike Teuber) to every guest. One thing we did that helped add to the ambiance and atmosphere was to print a few large Harry Potter theme posters.

Here’s a look at the 3 we made and then had printed. They were each 22 x 34 inches and mounted on foam core.

If you’d like to download the PDFs to print these yourself, please feel free to do so here. If you do use them, please email us and let us know… even send pictures of how you used them. If you link to them, please give us credit. Oh, and the Potion Brew poster is 10 meg… big images.

McMullen’s Irish Butterbeer
Madam Rosemerta’s Butterbeer
Potion Brew

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