You know, I’ve been thinking about the Holidaze. Kate and I have already decorated for Halloween. We actually got started before September even ended. Bright and early, Saturday September 27th, I drug the Halloween storage containers out of the garage and we got started. I had to scare the dogs first. It’s actually a family tradition, has been for years ever since I got this scary looking werewolf mask.

It’s a rubber whole head type of mask with fake hair and everything. I got it….jeez, I don’t know how long ago, more than five years. We were still in Northern California. I think I got it at Target. We had just got back to the house and the dogs were milling around in the kitchen while we unloaded the shopping bags. Four medium sized Shelties hoping for a handout. They were standing there, all watching me as calm as could be when I took the mask out of the bag and pulled it over my head. Immediately the dogs went ballistic! Barking growling, their hackles standing straight up, their eyes wide and wild! They must’ve thought the werewolf ate me or something. It’s a good thing that I smelled like…me. Things could’ve got ugly! Well, every year since then, the dogs and I relive that very special time. Kate thinks it’s very funny that they still freak out. She says their humoring me. Which they probably are. They don’t seem as frightened as they use to.

Anyway, where was I…oh yeah, I drug the bins out of the garage (scared the dogs) and we dug in. It’s always fun to get out the Holidaze storage containers. There are things like the mask that have been in there, almost forever but the things I especially like are the things that we got new last year. We always hit the clearance sales after each of the Holidaze and pick up a few more decorations for the next year. So each year there’s always something new!

This year we’re doing our shopping before the Holidaze at Gifts by Sasha.com. It’s as good as a clearance sale! Gifts by Sasha has over 3,000 unique items in their collections and due to the fact that they have sooo many repeat shoppers, they are able to price everything just a little bit above wholesale! That’s right all of their Holiday, Home Décor and Special Gift Items, EVERYTHING at near wholesale prices!

I’ve been looking at the  Halloween Garden Stake Set ! We need something for our front walkway. I’d also like to get the Halloween Activity Books for a Halloween Martini Party! It’ll be cool to have everyone dress up in strange costumes bring unusual snacks and have weird drinks with dry ice fog coming out of them. Then we can mess around with the activity books, have drinking games and scare the hell out of the Trick or Treaters!  Yeah! HALLOWEEN! HALLOWEEN! HALLOWEEN!

After you leave here, you should check out Gifts By Sasha.com. You can do all of your Holidaze shopping there! You’ll save lots of money, especially right now! To help in these tough economic times, Gifts By Sasha is offering a 10% off coupon to the first 50 people who register (link). This is in addition to our already low, near wholesale prices. When you register you become a Dear Friend and will be eligible to receive special sales discounts throughout the year!

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by David Spangenburg

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I walk through the dark, breathing in the hot humid night.
My brain is reeling, saturated by alcohol and herbal inhalants.
It’s circuitry crackling with impulses, fine tuned by chemical substances.
Alone in my musings, my footfall has been the only sound in this silent landscape.
Still I feel as if I were being stalked.
I can sense a flux in this energy flow, that we call a city.
A subtle, but noticeable strain on reality.
I become aware of a soft sound in the distance.
Insinuating at first, like a fleeting image caught out of the corner of your eye that is lost the moment you try to define it.
But, as the sound gradually increases in intensity, as it moves closer, it creates uneasiness in me, seeding my brain with just a tiny touch of terror.
My speed increases as the sound grows.
As if there were some danger abroad this night and I might not….make it home.
Off in the distance, I catch a glimpse of a glowing image, cracking the sky like lightning on the horizon.
It’s coming!

The stories I’ve heard can’t be true.
They’re just drug induced, paranoid visions of midnight travelers like me.
Beasts do not prowl the city streets. This is metro-millennium-civilization.
Deep in the heart of asphalt, stoplights and the 21st Century.
But still there is something there.
The sound is more distinct now.
A steady, rasping, oratory of unintelligible phrases, like a lion roaring through clenched teeth.
The glow has evolved into shining, yellow orbs pulsating in time to some internal clock strike.
It’s coming!

Two blocks down and closing fast.
My eyes dart about, looking for escape.
My pace slowing, as I consider retreat.
But, something in me is drawn forward.
A thought that I might experience a rare occurrence seen only by a select few.
After all, they survived to tell the tale.
But, how many others have there been that disappeared into that dark night.
It’s coming!

My hesitation has made escape a moot point.
There is no time now.
I duck into a darkened doorway, trying desperately to dissolve into the shadows.
My eyes wide and wild, straining to focus on the beast as it passes.
Its sounds are loud as thunder.
Its movement grinding, like gears grating on steel.
It bristles, scratching at the pavement like the frantic pawing of a mad bull.
Liquid flows in thick sheets from its steaming body.
My ears are filled with the hissing of its heady breath.
The rumbling from its belly sounds as if it were devouring the ground beneath it.
The Beast strains on like the fifth horseman of the apocalypse,
challenged by only the foolhardy
It is Monday, and the street cleaner rules the night.

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I can feel it.
It’s a trembling tension, yawning inside, a twitching itch, sighing to be scratched.
It’s almost more than I can handle.
Nibbling at my nerves like tiny teeth, eating away at my self control.
It awakens a hunger inside me, a need……..to feed.
It’s time to connect!
Time to beat feet down the street; I need to dive deep, into the heart of the neon night.
Out the door, down the stairs, I’m right on track.
Forget the car; I gotta feel my body movin’.
Gotta feel the sweat, just coolin’ my face in the sweet night air.
Gotta feel something besides this burnin’ in my soul.
My brain is watering.
Circuits flowin’ like a pavlovian rain forest.
It’s just up ahead.
Licking my lips with swift nervous strokes, I race on, my feet barely touchin’ the sidewalk, goosebumps rising from my skin in silent eruptions.
I see others in the night.
Small clustered groups huddled together, just outside the glare of the shop lights.
Frantic eyes, nervous gestures, these are my people!
The hungry ones, floatin’, circlin’, waitin’ to dart in again and again to tear off another chunk of some good times.
Their minds, racin’ through twisted mazes.
Their circuits, buzzin’ with the juice.
I feel at home with this dread tribe.

Umm, I can smell it!
Oh! I can almost feel it!
Slipping’ into my body, singing through my nerves and dancing’ in my brain.
As, I lunge forward to make my buy, completely focused on my upcoming high.
The only question they ask of me……
“Was that a double mocha?”

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