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Clicking Her Heels for Halloween |
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2009-10-27
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Clicking Her Heels for Halloween
Happy Halloween! Do you know who I am? Well here's the grey brick road and [begins singing] somewhere over the rainbow. Wait, Toto, come here. Toto, good, good dog, good dog. I am here, being very silly, to talk about something very serious.
When I was a kid, we could get dressed up and go out anywhere and go trick-or-treating and there was no issue. And these days, the world is a different place. So little kids, like under 13, should not be going out without some adult. And it's always better when kids go out in a group. When kids are older, same thing, in a group.
But you know what's fun? Getting dressed up silly and, oh I don't know, going to the school-- Wait; want to see the heels click? [Clicks together her ruby slippers]) --going to the school and just renting out the gymnasium and having all kinds of fun things like-- I remember one time I had a fun Halloween party at somebody's house, the lights were out and you got to put your hands in this bag (and each bag was filled with something) and they had peeled grapes. And you were feeling all these peeled grapes and they were saying, "These are eyeballs." [Laughs] And then there was another one with cooked spaghetti, with a lot of oil on it so it was all kinds of gushy, and you didn't know what it was because you just had your hands in the bag because it was dark. And that was supposed to be "guts."
So there are weird, sick, crazy, fun stuff you all can do as a neighborhood, or as an extended family to make it be fun. It's just a silly, fun holiday where we get scared and we get dressed up and we have a good time. All the stuff about the religious connotations about the holiday [throws her hands out in the air]... that is so history. It's just about having some fun.
Come here, Toto [motions for the dog]. [Sits down on grass, next to the dog] I'm waiting for the Wicked Witch of the West. Until then, bye! Happy Halloween!
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