el Dia de los Muertos

I have a LOT of pictures and videos to trudge through from Saturday's and Sunday's parties so rather than doing that, I have sat on my butt all evening instead. BUT I have a day off tomorrow so hopefully I'll get my act together then. I also have about 400 kids' drawings from one school to scrutinize and put a sticker upon them. I'll be very choosy about which ones I share. Although, here is the highlights of pics from my other schools.

I kept it simple with my Grade 4 classes and just asked them to draw a Jack o' Lantern on a pumpkin template. 

This gal went above and beyond the call of duty and drew the most adorable cosplaying cat ever!

On the reverse of the picture, they can draw any Halloween scene they wish. In the interim, I was taking photos with a half dozen kids at a time, dressed in the innumerable costumes I provided. 

At the cinema, I picked up an interesting flyer for a forthcoming movie. 

Feel free to print this picture off and you can colour it in yourself.

Sayonara, Tyranno!

Here is a remnant from my Halloween posts that I couldn't squeeze into a regular post. Some Crypto-currency.

I'm only UMA I'm missing is the Yeti. I'll keep an eye out for it in the secondary market.

Anyway, enough for tonight, here is what I wore for the kiddies today. About one kid in each class yelled out "Remember Me" which is the Japanese title for Coco.

Happy Spamoween!

I am utterly exhausted by ten days straight of Halloween lessons, Halloween blogging, Halloween tv and movies, Halloween treats, Halloween parties, and Halloween. Now that it is nearing its final minutes before November, I have never been more pleased. 

Instead of uploading videos and photos, I spent the evening watching Snyder's Army of Thieves, a prequel to Army of the Dead. I expected it to be bland and background noise while I did other stuff. Instead I found it to be intriguing and enjoyable, mainly thanks to the lead "couple". Ah well.

I did upload 80 pics of costumes and frivolity but no videos except for this one. I've regaled you in the past weeks of my displeasure in not finding a carve-able pumpkin, so I made do with an eggplant and yesterday I tried a mushroom. Doesn't really work. (I had a few other veggies but they decided to turn rotten in the space of a week, so they got tossed.)

So I tried a block of Spam instead!

Eww! 

Add a bit of Ketchup in the mouth for effect (and flavour).

And behold a Spamwich.

Taadaa! Nightmare fuel!

Ya know, I think that's enough for tonight. Time for bed to dream of my Spamkin.

I'll do a post-Halloween wrapup with photos of two parties and the resulting costumes as well as finishing up my Treats and Tricks and hopefully photos of a ton of Kids drawings.

Here's a teaser. Can you identify this man who is about to slay Mickey?

Happiest and Snappiest Halloween to all!

Happy BttF Day!

As we all recall, Marty and Doc fired up their Wayback Machine to October 21, 2015 thus spawning 3 movies of time travel and how it's never a good idea to sleep with your mom.

For some reason there has been an influx of  Back to the Future Gatcha capsules of late. TWO sets of cars (one at 400 yen and one at 500 yen a pop). I haven't gathered up all the rides, yet I did find this guy (BttF 3) last week at half price.

I have the first one as well...somewhere.

Last week, another debuted and I scored Einstein!

I haven't seen this particular machine since I won the above so I haven't snagged any more.

Speaking of driving around, I watched a confusing though cute little vampire movie tonight, Night Teeth. Confusing because I couldn't tell who was hunting whom, cute because the lead couple were so charming.

Today's Ukiyoe is unrelated to vampires, but let's throw in an Oni instead.

That's not a Kuniyoshi, rather it is by Utagawa Yoshitsuya and it's titled, "The Downfall of Shuten-Doji of Oe Mountain." (1858)

A bit of excitement at school when a Murder Hornet decided to pay us a visit. This Suzume-Bachi was huge!

Whoa!

In retrospect, it wasn't that big, just a couple of inches. Alas, as the students were shunted out of the room, the vp and a maintenance guy disposed of it with poison. They couldn't take the chance of it flying back in the room, I suppose. They sting worse than Mohammed Ali!

Finally, today's treat was a cookie. I wasn't sure what I was getting into, but I was pleased with the result.

It's Peter Makai-Jin-Shi. Some other-worldly sprite.

I'd be remiss if I didn't remind you to check out the other bloggers in the Countdown to Halloween, especially since one of our illustrious moderators from Zombie Crossings paid a visit in my comments section yesterday.

Bedlam and Broomsticks.

I'll go straight into today's Ukiyoe... 

Yoshifusa Utagawa etched this of Kiyomori at the Nunobiki Waterfall.

Along the same lines, Kuniyoshi painted this rendition of Kiyomori visiting the Nunobiki Waterfall whereupon Nanba no Jiro is struck down by the ghost of Akugenda Yoshihira.

I need a segue to tonight's movie now. How about William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress about his final days in the insane asylum at Bethlam Hospital (Bedlam)? 

It's a pretty lousy segue yet it does allow me to speak of the movie I watched tonight called Bedlam. This 1946 gem stars Boris Karloff as the Head Physician of the Bedlam Asylum, offering those with a tuppence to view his loonies. Billy House as the wealthy Mortimer and Anna Lee as Nell, the gal who takes pity on the inhabitants stand out.

  

         

Most surprising to me is seeing the immortal Ian Wolfe as the Greatest Lawyer (also a Loonie). He was ancient in this movie and barely aged twenty years later when he was Septimus and Mr. Atoz in two episodes of Star Trek. 15 years, later he looked exactly the same age as Hirsch, Mrs. Carlson's butler on WKRP.

Not very much Halloweeny stuff going on so far, so here is a Bearbrick of The Phantom of the Paradise!

(Hey! I just figured out why it was so cheap. It's missing a hand!)

To top it off, I have some chocolates that I have yet to consume featuring Jack and the gang.

I'll end tonight with a Kana-Hebi (Grass Lizard) that one of my Grade 3 kids proudly showed off for me.