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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

My brother was the original "left shark"

My brother was the original "left shark" I changed my Twitter photo to the one of Halloween...likely 1979? Michael's just a baby. I think I'm wearing my first school uniform, before they changed in 5th grade. I bet mom took it right after I got home from school to find my brother so excited for Trick-or-Treating that he wore his Jaws costume all day. You could say I have no costume, or viewed another way you could say I'm dressed as the lead in " Tales of a Fourth Grad…

What Lies Beneath (Movie Summary and Review)

What Lies Beneath (Movie Summary and Review) It's weird that I didn't see it when it first came out. I mean, it's got Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford in the lead roles. One does trust A-Listers such as these to pick good scripts, doesn't one? After all, Pfeiffer and Ford have each been outstanding in everything, from comedy and adventure to dramatic roles. Moreover I can't think of a single clunker starring either of them, can you? And yet, w henever the conversatio…

We Lived In A Haunted House

We Lived In A Haunted House  Today I got back from a long weekend visiting friends and family, and my mom reminded me of the time she startled a ghost in her room. - md Tales From Connecticut When I was sixteen, my mom woke up one morning and announced that our house was haunted. There was little doubt. For one thing, my mother is not the sort of woman given to flights of fancy, hallucination or anything of that nature. She's a rock. In addition, the house was built in …

The Conjuring (Movie Summary and Review)

The Conjuring (Movie Summary and Review) The Conjuring opens in the apartment of two young nurses who are telling Ed and Lorraine Warren their story. Tearfully, they explain how they'd invited the spirit of a lonely little girl to inhabit a doll. "You did what? It was a big mistake acknowledging this doll," scolds Ed Warren. Lorraine Warren explains there was never any little girl ghost named Annabelle, but rather a diabolical non-human entity. "Demonic spirits don&…