Halloween Checklist

Here we are. After a month of multiple hints on facebook about your costume, hours upon hours of pinterest and pins of eyeball cupcakes and vintage decorations, and justified taste tests of your handout candy, the moment of reckoning is here.

Happy Halloween, turkeys.

Have you:

Watched your favorite scary movie? 

Visited your local pumpkin patch and contemplated stealing a baby A. goat B. pig C. cow and naming it after your favorite Stephen King character?

Raided the dollar store in search of Halloween craft gold?

Stomped out of said dollar store, feeling frustrated, cheap and uncreative?

Gawked at the cutest of your friends kids in their costumes, feeling only slightly envious of their tricks or treats? And by slightly, I mean insanely.

Let forth a stream of colorful swears in public after your fifth failed attempt to find all the required elements of this year's elaborate costume? 

Watched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?

Stepped into any chain store and gazed up at the Christmas decorations that were put up weeks ago, feeling alternately irked, excited and overwhelmed?

Did you answer yes to any of these, then proceeded to do some comfort eating?

You're ready for the holidays.

Stop sleeping and stop making sense

I feel somewhat guilty for taking up an entire post to make this announcement, but I believe it is rather important.

It's official. I WILL be dressing up as David Byrne for Halloween this year.

I suppose I could go as Tina Weymouth, but we already have similar hairstyles and I secretly plan to start dressing as her on weekends and other holidays anyway.

Second announcement, is not really an announcement but an idea. Why the hell hasn't someone dreamed up the Stop Making Sense concert workout regime/dvd? But seriously. They jog in place the whole damn show... You could get your cardio while "burning down the house"(pardon the pun, but the moment demanded it). Granted, the last time I watched the whole thing from begin to end was, well... six years ago with my father and my brother's old boy scout master after we had put back a couple (four) of bottles of wine... so I haven't exactly tested this exercise routine myself, but I see no reason why it shouldn't be a BIG hit.

Yes, I am a shameless Talking Heads nerd. And yes, I have had a bit of a TH re-awakening over the past few days, so this may be why I am inundating the blog with videos today.

Please, enjoy some of my favorite songs from Talking Heads Stop Making Sense concert?





Featuring possible halloween costume:


But this is the outfit that will probably win:


It's jazzercize meets treadmill-less jogging meets the choreography I borrowed from for the little kids dance class I taught last year. No foolin'. They were dancing to They Might Be Giant's Birdhouse in Your Soul. Frankly, I'm shocked the building didn't implode from all the awesomeness.


Possibly the most romantic song ever - if you take it out of the whole ironic Wall Street usage. I'll never forgive you, Oliver Stone.


Or hell, just watch the whole damn concert if you like (before youtube takes it down).

What I've Been Up To

I told you all I'd be a bit of a ghost on my old blog, and I reckon I have fulfilled my promise! What has been eating up all my time? Well:

THE WILD PARTY at Virginia Samford Theatre. Singing, dancing, and rubbing my secret all over some very lucky guys. Musical theatre, kids! Dirty, raunchy, jazz filled musical theatre! Read our four star review here and come on out next weekend! Details here.


My day job has been far more tame, but just as fun- for the real kiddies (and some very silly adults like myself).

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW at Birmingham Children's Theatre. It's silly AND spooky - the best of both worlds. Be sure to come out to the family days the weekend before Halloween, where al.com is sponsoring a costume contest for the kids. Plus I drag my petticoated self up to the lobby for autographs! Details here. Don't live in the Birmingham area? Never fear- we're taking this show on the road. We'll be in Florida all next week and back in 'Bama, then on up to North Carolina... and so on and so forth until  December 9th. Check with your local theatres to see if we're stopping by!!


Now that all that shameless self promotion is over, I am glad to tell you starting this week, I'll have a new post every week, at least until I start coming home from my morning shows, still covered in stage makeup, sulking in the corner and glaring up at my laptop from under my false eyelashes. Be proactive- that is my goal. Proactive. Proactive Proactive Proactive.  (Hopefully this works out better than the acne cleanser of the same name)