Happy Halloween!

I haven't gotten around to dusting off my Mix Tape Fridays — but here's a musical bag of tricks and treats from A Million Miles Away's KS. Better than candy corn!

If you have yet to visit The Big Wicked Online Pageant, keep scrolling down the page. There are some GREAT photos of these folks.

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The Big Wicked Online Pageant

The first annual Big Wicked Online Pageant is here! Visit these blog-ghouls and e-goblins. Leave trick or treat comments. Discover new bloggers. Then come back here and let us know whose photos are your faves.

We're adding new pageant contestants nearly every hour, so check back regularly. There are some great costumed memories on the blogs this week!

• Dan at All Things Dan

• Barbara Bruederlin at Bad Tempered Zombie

• Dguzman at Beginning to Bird *

• Cormac Brown at Cormac Writes

• Beth at A Cup of Coffey

• Samurai Frog at Electronic Cerebrectomy *

• Sean at Everything Is Pop, Pop Is Everything

• Allison at Flying Buttresses

• Gifted Typist at The Gifted Typist *

• Grant Miller at Grant Miller Media

• MNmom at Happy to Be from Iowa *

• Johnny Yen at Here Comes Johnny Yen Again *

• Splotchy at I, Splotchy

• McGone at International House of Blogcakes *

• Brothers Tony Alva and Mathdude, together at Intravenus de Milo *

• Marni at It’s a Pug’s Life

• Lulu at Land-o-Lulu

• The Dena at Linkadelica *

• Dr. Monkey von Monkerstein at Monkey Muck

• Gizmorox at My Head Is a Box Filled with Nothing *

• Dale at Passion of the Dale

• BeckEye at The Pop Eye *

• Flannery Alden at Prone to Whimsy *

• Artful Dodger at Rants Raves Life and Anything Else That Comes *

• Katrocket at Rocketradio

• Doc at Social Zymurgy: Culture of Beer

• Skyler’s Dad at Some Days It's Not Worth Chewing Through the Leather Straps *

• Chris at Some Guy’s Blog *

• Bubs at Sprawling Ramshackle Compound

• Suze at Suzel’s Sass *

• Tanya's Alexander at Tanya Espanya *

• GETkristiLOVE at Two Minutes in the Box *

• Evil Genius at What I Like About the Universe

• Red at What I Like About the Universe

• Cap'n Ergo "XL" Jinglebollocks at With a Twist of Lemon *

Check back later today and throughout the week, as other blog-ghouls plan to post photos in the coming hours and days.

* Tuesday's newbies!
* Wednesday's children!
* Thursday's players!

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My Moment in the Big Wicked Moon

So here I am, hosting the first annual Big Wicked Online Pageant — and I can’t find a Halloween photo from my youth. ‘Tis a sad thing, as Halloween was just about my favorite day of the year. I got to dress up, run around the neighborhood with Holly and Renae, and bag tons o’ candy. I usually went as a gypsy, with lots and lots of baubles accenting brightly colored skirts. (Come to think of it, I still dress like a gypsy two days out of five.)

But I’m not going to let something like poorly archived family photos keep me from playing — so here I am in a rather creative costume, circa 1990:



That’s me: the opening credits to the Twilight Zone. Fun costume, but I ended up being a literal wallflower since I always had to stay within extension-cord distance of a wall socket.

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The Big Wicked Online Pageant

A couple of years ago, this blog circle participated in quite the entertaining online event: The Little Miss Sunshine Online Pageant. Participants posted a grade-school photo, and Dale and I linked to those posts on our blogs. The contest was a smash, with about thirty folks posting their lovely piccies, and people from far and wide clicked their way across our blogworld. It was a hoot seeing who was a third-grade hottie and who was fourth-grade nottie.

I was a nottie.

Some of us discovered new blogs to read, so it was well worth the time to dig through the boxes in mama’s attic. But we haven’t done anything fun like that since 2006.

That is, not until Bubs over at Sprawling Ramshackle Compound put on his cocktailing thinking cap. He contacted Dale and me with a great idea: posting our favorite Halloween costume photos. Ideally, these would be photos from your childhood — but we’re easy. We’re talking the ultimate in tricks and treats!

Rules for The Big Wicked Online Pageant

• Scan a photo from your Halloween past.

• Post it on your blog Monday evening, October 28.

• Once you post your photo, e-mail me at the address on the navbar. If you can, include the URL to that specific post.

• I’ll post a link to every participant’s blog Tuesday morning by 9 a.m.

So start digging through your archives. Warm up the scanner. Get ready to don your best Halloween masks!

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