For a bit, it looked like we might have a small trick-or-treating turnout - it was cold and started hailing around 4 PM - but it cleared up within half an hour and we got around 25 people total, which is pretty average. I didn't notice any themes to the costumes and was surprised to only see two superhero costumes -- one Superman and one Iron Man. The costumes that stood out for me were two eight-year-old girls dressed liked the band Kiss with makeup, wigs, platform boots and all; a boy in a pinstripe suit and fedora; another boy in all black leather; two girls dressed as an angel and a devil; and a young girl as a cute orange and black witch.
I improvised a little on my costume, but it was based on a design from a facepainting book that I was originally going to use for Halloween in 10th grade, the one year I missed trick-or-treating. (I was in hospital at the time.) Photos and more details down below.
Regarding the diary, it needs to be complete within the next two weeks. I finished working on the diary proper about two weeks ago and am now completing the appendices and introduction. My thoughts vacillate from 'wow, I'm almost done' to 'wow, I still have so much left to do!' The diaries' text is about 180 pages; in comparison, the appendices plus the introduction are about 80 pages. Needless to say, it's what I'll be spending most of my time on until I'm satisfied.
Fandom-wise, besides The Authority, I've finally been remembering to record Batman: The Brave and the Bold every Friday. I also got back into The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in a major way and finished watching all of the first and most of the second season.
My newest series is Семнадцать Мгновений Весны [Semnadtsat' Mgnoveniï Vesny; English: Seventeen Moments of Spring], a miniseries produced by the USSR in 1973. The series is set in the spring of 1945 and is filmed in black and white, interspersed with actual footage shot during the time by Soviet, American, German, and other sources. The main character is a Soviet spy working undercover as Stirlitz, an intelligence officer in the German SS. Stirlitz is an intriguing character and very different from your typical American lead -- he's serious, stoic, thoughtful, and meticulous. Of course, he also must keep his true Russian identity hidden. Ironically, one of the things that makes some of the German officers slightly suspicious of him is that Stirlitz never badmouths the Nazi regime while most of his fellow officers are not so lenient, some even seeing the writing on the wall that Germany is going to lose the war.
( More about Seventeen Moments of Spring. )
( Halloween 2010 photos. )
I improvised a little on my costume, but it was based on a design from a facepainting book that I was originally going to use for Halloween in 10th grade, the one year I missed trick-or-treating. (I was in hospital at the time.) Photos and more details down below.
Regarding the diary, it needs to be complete within the next two weeks. I finished working on the diary proper about two weeks ago and am now completing the appendices and introduction. My thoughts vacillate from 'wow, I'm almost done' to 'wow, I still have so much left to do!' The diaries' text is about 180 pages; in comparison, the appendices plus the introduction are about 80 pages. Needless to say, it's what I'll be spending most of my time on until I'm satisfied.
Fandom-wise, besides The Authority, I've finally been remembering to record Batman: The Brave and the Bold every Friday. I also got back into The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in a major way and finished watching all of the first and most of the second season.
My newest series is Семнадцать Мгновений Весны [Semnadtsat' Mgnoveniï Vesny; English: Seventeen Moments of Spring], a miniseries produced by the USSR in 1973. The series is set in the spring of 1945 and is filmed in black and white, interspersed with actual footage shot during the time by Soviet, American, German, and other sources. The main character is a Soviet spy working undercover as Stirlitz, an intelligence officer in the German SS. Stirlitz is an intriguing character and very different from your typical American lead -- he's serious, stoic, thoughtful, and meticulous. Of course, he also must keep his true Russian identity hidden. Ironically, one of the things that makes some of the German officers slightly suspicious of him is that Stirlitz never badmouths the Nazi regime while most of his fellow officers are not so lenient, some even seeing the writing on the wall that Germany is going to lose the war.
( More about Seventeen Moments of Spring. )
( Halloween 2010 photos. )
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