Has anyone else read We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates? Holy heartbreak. I can't put it down.

@kansasgirl: This happened to my friend's mom last week. She passed out twice in one day, went to the hospital, and ended up having a pacemaker put in the next morning.

Dad died 20 years ago today. I was 11, he was 79. He was always singing around the house and this song was his favorite. I really miss him. I get sad that I was only around for the last decade of a long, loving and fruitful life. But everyone tells me I'm just like him, and that makes me really happy.

@waverly: And the ever-present aroma of skunks. Every time I smell one now I am transported to Eddie's Parade.

My freshman year at Fordham I shared a pretty small room with three other women. The hall bathroom was so consistently disgusting that one I day I returned from class to find one of the cleaning ladies' in tears. We're talking condoms, feces, tampons and ramen noodles in the shower stalls. Money can't buy you class!

Trick or treat, Mr. Hamlin. Trick or treat!?!

@QuakerOates: There was a party called Prom of the Dead, where you were supposed to come as a dead prom-goer. I went as a dead prom chaperone. And named myself after the now-departed crone from Mad Men, Miss Blankenship.

@catalina:

i was a chaperone at Prom of the Dead. the name's Blankenship.

@maude_flanders: yep. and i pass by it everyday. wish i could have snapped a better pic!

@Buggie:

went down to the creepy abandoned grain elevators with the boy, a bottle of wine, and a collection of Poe and Roald Dahl stories. spooktastic!

Even though all my friends are out decking the Halloween halls and drinking jameson & ginger ale, I plan to seduce my friend-with-benefits (hopefully soon to be more than just friend) by reading him scary Poe and Dahl stories at the deserted grain elevators. Wish me luck! Hope you all have a spooky night!

I love you, MorningGloria, and I love your surreptitious Wayne's World references.

@AgnesGrep: and smell-o-vision!!

@Le Coucher d'Yvette: get it, girrrrl!

@MissyMcCLung: You took the words outta my mouth. All I'm picturing when I try to say that name is an abrasion.

@footnotegirl: Mine 'sploded once while I was taking a tour of the Vatican. Had to run through miles of frescoed hallways past leering cherubim and seraphim and promptly consecrated the ladies room.

@Noble Rat: Man, it looks like he is napping HARD.

@fridaycat.: Thanks and ditto! Is yours a tortie?