Just a bunch of creeps living our best lives.
I just went through my own Halloween 2015 tag and I have to say I think this year’s festivities might have been the best yet. Good work, everyone.
One of my favorite Halloween traditions is the Procession of the Ghouls at the Cathedral of St John the Divine (which I also go to for the Blessing of the Animals). It’s always a treat, but this year I went with a pack of my favorite people including @lilymischief and @fantasticcats and we got great seats right on the aisle, so it was especially nice. I was glad I had just been to the barber because the ghouls were all very interested in rubbing my head.
Inferno 2015 was great - possibly the best SNM party yet, but certainly the best since Carnival des Corbeaux. I feel like basically every complaint I’ve ever had about the special events was handled and then some. Dinner was abundant and delicious and the Paisley Players were perfection as always. There were tons of surprises and unexpected treats, including at least five different 1:1s (one of which was one of the best Punchdrunk moments I’ve ever had). The bars were busy but not impossible to get to, and anyway there were tons of places to get shots. There were snacks. Aaron Paul was boy witch during the opening piece and it was a delight to party with him afterward. The costumes and performances were all top-notch, and it was actually possible to find most of them because - wonder of wonders - we got a printed schedule.
Most of all, I had a blast dancing and drinking and sweating with some of my very best friends, and somehow my giant crow hat did not disintegrate mid-party as I’d sort of assumed it would.
I had been planning to skip the New Year’s Eve event, but this party was so great that I’m going to have to reconsider that, I think. In fact, the party has actually reignited my interest in seeing the show - I haven’t seen it in months and had not been planning to again anytime soon, but now I’m dying to go back. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that this year’s Inferno actually reminded me why I fell in love with Sleep No More to begin with.
I just want to make sure we’re all aware that Macaron Parlour has pumpkin spice and apple cider caramel macarons.
As a film, Crimson Peak is astonishingly bad. It’s gorgeous, of course, and if you can laugh at the badness instead of being annoyed by it, it still makes for a fun spoopy night out with friends… but it’s definitely real bad. My companions and I had to take a few minutes in the lobby afterward to exchange various expressions of “THEY SPENT ALL THAT TIME WORKING UP TO [REDACTED] AND NOTHING CAME OF IT” and “BUT WHY DIDN’T [REDACTED] JUST [REDACTED]” but I can still see myself watching it again in a year when I’m drunk and it shows up on Netflix.
This year I remembered the important strategy I failed to grasp last year, which is that first you should carve your pumpkin friend and then give yourself adorable Halloween nailz. Otherwise, between the pumpkin guts and frequent hand washing and knife usage, your nailz end up chipped like an hour after they are painted which is maybe the most maddening thing in the world.
Shanghai Mermaid’s Victorian Seance on Saturday was basically everything I need in a party - beautiful friends, ghosts, fire dancing, an actual seance, spirit photography, dead pirates, theremin performance, abundant prosecco, and an excuse to wear my crystal spider brooch.
I am so bummed that I can’t make it to this, but you should absolutely go on my behalf and take a ton of pictures that I can look at later… privately.
@lilymischief had a Fall Day party and there was pumpkin soup and pizza monkey bread and pumpkin cheesecake and novelty Halloween beer and pumpkin carving and it was great, just great.
Normally for Halloween I treat myself to fancy chocolate like this coffin of monster truffles, but this year I went with bath stuff instead and I have no regrets. Two bath bombs and two shower gels means at least a couple of perfect witch baths.
Trader Joe’s is crushing it in the seasonal snack treat department.
Eventually all my year-round home decor will be things I bought from Pottery Barn at Halloween. That’s also where I got these snack cauldrons a couple years ago:
