Fortress Of Good Fortune

Remember my rant about It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown being yanked from broadcast TV and ending up on Apple+'s streaming service? Well, we're not the only ones unhappy with the change:

Vulture

The Washington Post

Cross-post to Livejournal

Well, I just found out yesterday that It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! won't be on broadcast TV anymore. It's moved to Apple+, a streaming service. Same for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I don't like it. The airing of these specials gives you a communal feeling. Streaming is a niche. I don't care if they're offering it free for a few days. A lot of people are going to miss out.

One thing about the days of the Big Three networks? What they showed was free, and usually accessible, as eventually everyone ended up owning a TV, especially as prices went down. Now you pay for cable and, in addition, streaming services.

Did you ever own a DVD or DVR something but come across that show or movie when channel-surfing, and you decide to watch it, anyway? Because you know other people are watching it at the same time, not just you as with a DVD/DVR.

It's our human need for connection. That's why if movie theaters go the way of the dinosaur, it'll be a sad thing. Despite the overpriced tickets and concessions, it's still a communal experience. Huh, I'm an introvert and I'm pushing for communal experiences! 2020 is defintely a weird year.

Goodbye, 54 years of tradition! >:(

Hi, luvs!

Halloween was a lot of fun at work this year. We all dressed up and had a party. We carved pumpkins (mine was a bat!) and ate food that the Culinary Arts students prepared while music played. I had a doughnut hole, two slices of bruschetta, and cranberries on toast. The punch was just right, not too sweet.

I wore my Ghouls' Night Out T-shirt, black pants and shoes, a purple Witch hat, black, yellow and orange beads, a Jack O'Lantern bracelet and a diamond-eyed (not real, ha!) snake bracelet. My make-up was a little wild and pictures were taken of everyone. Others dressed up as a voodoo boca, a cat, Cruella De Ville, zombies and a spiderwoman. Treats were given out (I brought some candy, too) and I probably overdosed on sugar, tee hee.

The lobby was filled with ghosts and mummies (cut-outs) and three Witches bent over a cauldron. The dolls were adorable! In my office was a ghost and a plastic Jack O'Lantern holding a wand. :)

We left all the decorations up for the rest of the week and will take them down Monday. It was a lot of fun!

After work was oohing and aahing over cute little trick-or-treaters and lighting candles for an appropriately spooky atmosphere while watching TV in-between answering the doorbell.

Hope you all had fun, too! :)

Whoops, forgot I was doing this meme, LOL! Anyway, here are the happies for the day:

1) Color is everywhere! We're at peak color here and the trees and bushes are fantastic.

2) I bought a pumpkin to use in the building's pumpkin decorating contest. I might go with a Mr. Spock theme, not sure yet. :)

3) I got directions on where to vote. It'll be my first time at this polling place and the website's directions were awful. I asked the building manager and he was able to give me excellent directions. I like competent people!

It's Halloween Week!!! *squees*

Man, the energy is just swirling around like the leaves! It's a gorgeous fall day, all golden and orange and crimson, and the weather is just right: cool enough to wear a jacket but not uncomfortable. Crisp air and the bounty of the harvest ready to be enjoyed.

A few weeks ago I went to the local farm stand and bought a baby pumpkin and gourds, all colorful as the leaves were all bright around me. There were giant gourds shaped like swans and other interesting shapes. :) Big pumpkins and little ones. Colorful Indian corn. Mums of red, orange, and yellow!

Houses are decorated on the street, some with autumn themes of cornstalks and scarecrows and pumpkins while others are spooky Halloween themes, complete with grinning Jack O'Lanterns and pumpkin lights! ;) One house has an inflatable Haunted House on their front lawn, LOL!

This is the week I usually see a flurry of submissions for my current Halloween Challenge, and while I may just be whistling past the graveyard this year, I bet something pops up in the trick-or-treat bag! *dances*

I've got a Witch cut-out on my front door and a vampire on the back. Lots of decorations and I have to get my plastic Jack O'Lantern handy and filled with candy! ;)

So get ready, boys and ghouls, for the magic in the air of the Night of Nights and the costumes of the kiddies as they shuffle through the fallen leaves up to the door and yell, "Trick-or-treat!" and the adults party hearty in full costume! :)