Leap Year

I’m afraid my annual efforts to make Halloween the most epic night of the fall came up a little short for the year 2008. This year, there are no epic tales of danger or mystery and there
probably won’t be Matt Moore-related fables that people speak about for future Halloweens to come. Sadly, it could be the tamest Moore-Halloween on record.

I’d have to say the most notable events of Halloween 2008 had nothing to do with me. The cream of the Halloween 2008 crop would have to go to Mrs. Moore’s annual shipment of frosted cookies (pictured above posing with a quarter). They came in the form of the usual cast of spooks including pumpkins, black cats, and skulls with the new addition of Frankenstein! Don’t worry; they were homemade, delicious, and gone roughly 24 hours after their arrival.

A close second to homemade sweets was a surprisingly raging party thrown by the mid-city Nebraskans. I have to admit I didn’t expect much from them, and the stop at their house was initially intended as the customary pleasantries before going off to a ‘better party.’ I must say, I was the goose as their party had the full makings of a rager complete with multiple rooms, multiple floors, multiple houses, multiple guests and multiple activities to make for a very lively atmosphere. The party also contained the ‘X’ factor no other LA party could boast which was Kuhns. As usual, he was in rare form speaking inside with outside voices while creating a spectacular party aura. Good work Kuhns (a better use of this photo).

Maybe like my record with New Year’s Eve festivities, Halloween 2008 was the universe’s way of evening me out. Let’s be honest, as far as Halloween is concerned I’ve had a good run. There are plenty of epic stories, costumes and mistakes, which have ‘haunted’ me for years. Maybe 2008 was the bad Halloween required to make way for another 8 years of fun… or maybe it is the end of an era. In any event, at least I got my cookies.