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Vampires
Sitting here watching the Phillies and NY Yankees play ball. May the best team win as long as it’s not the Yankees.
Last night was Halloween. Did you all have little ghosts and goblins come a knockin’ at your door? I actually had a rather large number of vampires this year. I attribute this to the popularity of the Stephanie Meyer Twilight book series. I found it curious that almost all the vampires were female. The only male vampire knocking on my door was about 5 years old and looked more like Eddie Munster. Adorable, though. His little sister, twin, I think, was a petite princess all decked out in pink and sparklies. Their Mom came along dressed up as a cat and, if I was a guy, probably would have closed the door afterwards and howled a little bit. Wow.
Anyway, back to the vampires at my door. Mostly female as I said. And there was a distinct difference between this year’s vampires and the ones of the past. Once upon a time, vampires were scary things and the vampire make-up was geared to freaky scary.
This year, the vampires were decked out in normal attire with make-up that would make Hollywood jealous. These vampires were attractive. We might even go so far as to say some of them were downright hot. There was some talent behind those paint pots and various make-up brushes.
But there was one vampire who stood out. Not only was her make-up outstanding, but she had the voice and the manner that were so smooth and icy and strange and elegant, that I was almost stricken dumb. I came close to babbling. She was a little frightening. And she had the faintest smile as if she knew it. She brought her little sister with her and the little sister took her vampire sister in stride and told me, “She thinks she’s Bella” and rolled her eyes. The vampire sister smiled and showed her vampire teeth and yanked her little sister (gently) off the front porch. LIttle sisters can be such pains. Really.
I laughed. I still am.
So, did anyone else notice a sudden neighborhood influx of attractively appointed vampires this year?
(Still waiting for the Phillies to load the bases and get a homer. Pleasepleasepleaseplease...)
2-2 - Go PHILLY, Yankees go home...............;)
4-3, Damn Yankees.
Are they going to walk Utley from now on? I think I would. ;)
Sigh. Philadelphia gave that one away. Disappointed.
Charlie Manuel has a lot more faith (unjustified) in Brad Lidge than the rest of the baseball universe does.
Reading your Tweet on the side, you’ve forgotten Dodger Stadium as another instantly-identifiable location for a team.
We had only one group of 8-10 munchkins, but it was so dark I couldn’t really tell what they were dressed up as.
Boy, do things change… I recall a time when you were a Yankee fan.
Due praise to the 2004 Sox, for effecting this marvelous transformation.
Oh, I agree about Lidge. i know ball players have their slumps, but This Isn’t The Time for one. He had the perfect set-up with a 4-4 score and two outs. It was as if Johnny Damon literally scared him and he clutched. I got up to go get a bowl of ice cream and when I came back, the Yanks had 3 more runs. Sheez.
Or Candlestick Park, but that’s going back a long way. Those names sure beat something like Pacific Bell Park which became SBC Park which became AT&T Park which will become Who Knows What Park and who will remember or care?
N, it’s not as if you had anything to do with the transformation. Oh, not at all. It’s hard to beat your logic in these matters. And then then Yanks got all arrogant, which made them totally insufferable (as opposed to being generally insufferable). They could use a LONG, LONG, LONG losing streak to learn how to be humble. How could those sweet, humble Red Sox fail to be the final nail in the Yankee devotion coffin? 
Snarky Dodgers fans just refer to that place up north as Phone Company Park. We can’t keep up.