Halloween Countdown, Day 20
Oct. 20th, 2009 07:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitEvery year, my parents send their granddog, the magnificent Virginia, a Halloween costume for her to wear. The latest arrived yesterday. As you can see to the right, this year she's transformed from a Boston Terrier into a Boston Bumble Bee.
As always, you can see more pictures of Virginia here. A picture of Virginia is featured in Stuff on My Mutt: The Book, too!
And in Edgar Allan Poe-related news...
* You may recall that I previously posted that Edgar Allan Poe would finally get a proper funeral this year. It happened! (Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
groovekittie for the link.)
* Watch a video here of Poe's funeral procession and the historical and contemporary figures who attended the service.
* The Guardian points out that Poe pulled a balloon hoax before balloon hoaxes were cool. (Thanks togbsteve.)
Spooky Text of the Day: Today we have them poem "Hallowe'en" (1913) by Virna Sheard.
Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away--
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
And the dead remembered--ay! long and well--
And the little children whose spirits dwell
In God's green garden of asphodel.
Have you reached the country of all content,
0 souls we know, since the day you went
From this time-worn world, where your years were spent?
Would you come back to the sun and the rain,
The sweetness, the strife, the thing we call pain,
And then unravel life's tangle again?
I lean to the dark--Hush!--was it a sigh?
Or the painted vine-leaves that rustled by?
Or only a night-bird's echoing cry?
As always, you can see more pictures of Virginia here. A picture of Virginia is featured in Stuff on My Mutt: The Book, too!
And in Edgar Allan Poe-related news...
* You may recall that I previously posted that Edgar Allan Poe would finally get a proper funeral this year. It happened! (Thanks to
groovekittie for the link.) * Watch a video here of Poe's funeral procession and the historical and contemporary figures who attended the service.
* The Guardian points out that Poe pulled a balloon hoax before balloon hoaxes were cool. (Thanks to
gbsteve.)Spooky Text of the Day: Today we have them poem "Hallowe'en" (1913) by Virna Sheard.
Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away--
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
And the dead remembered--ay! long and well--
And the little children whose spirits dwell
In God's green garden of asphodel.
Have you reached the country of all content,
0 souls we know, since the day you went
From this time-worn world, where your years were spent?
Would you come back to the sun and the rain,
The sweetness, the strife, the thing we call pain,
And then unravel life's tangle again?
I lean to the dark--Hush!--was it a sigh?
Or the painted vine-leaves that rustled by?
Or only a night-bird's echoing cry?
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Date: 2009-10-20 11:38 am (UTC)I always enjoy seeing Virginia both dressed up and undressed up.
Such lovely pictures.
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Date: 2009-10-20 12:33 pm (UTC)Thanks for link to the funeral vid. And the balloon hoax thing is fantastic!
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:36 pm (UTC)You're most welcome. I was intrigued to see which anachronistic figures attended the service: H.P. Lovecraft and Alfred Hitchcock, for example.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:02 pm (UTC)And so patient in all her costumes.
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:38 pm (UTC)She is very patient with us, but her patience comes with a price - she was well compensated with peanut butter treats. Ha! And we also promised it would be a whole year before we put her through that again. ;)
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:42 pm (UTC)Not only did her grandparents send the costume, but they also sent the gourmet peanut butter treats with which we bribed her to wear the costume. Clearly, they know how this process works. LOL!
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Date: 2009-10-20 04:45 pm (UTC)And she's featured in Stuff on My Mutt?! Wow. I'm impressed! I mean...of course she is.
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:45 pm (UTC)This picture was posted on the Stuff on My Mutt blog, but I didn't know it made the book until I was leafing through it at Barnes & Noble. It was a nice surprise!
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Date: 2009-10-20 05:29 pm (UTC)One of the men I am talking to on the eharmony thingie has one of Virginia's relatives and I am thinking, can I just marry the dog?
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:48 pm (UTC)ROFLOL - that's hysterical! (A vote in his favor, if he has the good taste to be owned by a Boston, I must say.) There definitely should be a "I'll pass on you but I'll definitely take your pet" option. ;)
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Date: 2009-10-20 09:08 pm (UTC)Very excellent poem too. :-)
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:51 pm (UTC)I'm so glad you liked the poem, too!
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Date: 2009-10-20 10:35 pm (UTC):::DIES:::
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:53 pm (UTC)You know, it's really her grandparents who torture her on Halloween. (They do send gourmet peanut butter treats as enticement/apology for taking the photos in her costume, so she is bribed/compensated.) We're the ones who torture her at Christmas. But then the year ends with the solemn promise that it's all over until the holidays come back around... ;)
LOL!
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Date: 2009-10-21 08:55 pm (UTC)Lovely!
Date: 2009-10-23 05:55 pm (UTC)xo Rebecca
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