It’s a Great Pumpkin
I’ve learned there are three things you don’t discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin. - Linus in It’s a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
This is one of my favorite days of the years. One of the few times you can publicly witness adults behaving like children - in the best possible way.
Some links to entertain you today, Halloween.
- Have you ever read The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe? Ever listened to it? You absolutely must listen to it, even if you do not enjoy reading it. Here is a reading by Basil Rathbone.* It is a fabulous rendition and the story is truly at its best when it is illuminated with such a voice. (* the link will automatically open the audio-file. If you have trouble with the link this is the original source).
- Read about the History of Halloween:A brief explanation, A History of the Jack-O’Lantern, Wiki weighs in.
- Modern Day Halloween, NYTimes Style
- Miss the televised It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown? YouTube to the rescue
- Make Blog’s achieve of Halloween Projects. (this is my favorite)
- Learn how to draw a pumpkin in Adobe Illustrator (or, really any graphics software).
- Free Halloween Knitting patterns.
- Spooky things to listen to while you work!
5 Responses to “It’s a Great Pumpkin”
hey thanks for the halloweeny post.
31 Oct 2006 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for the treats! Happy Halloween!
31 Oct 2006 at 5:55 pm
oh? because people don’t think the great pupmkin is real?
01 Nov 2006 at 1:56 pm
You mention listening to Poe’s ‘Raven’. Can you just imagine Alan Rickman reciting that? Just thinking of it sends shivers of …….. well, (smile) shivers up and down my ……… well, we’ll just quit there. (fans herself).
Honestly, though, Rickman has THE vest voice for poetry. I have a cd of various actors reciting Shakespearean sonnets and Rickman is doing one of them. IT is fantastic. As it is written in Poe’s the ‘Bells’, as being the sound that drives men mad. You know: the bells, the bells, the tinntinnabulation of the bells. I, for myself, can say that madness comes with ‘the voice’ ………..the voice ……..Of Mr. Rickman.
04 Nov 2006 at 1:04 pm
You mention listening to Poe’s ‘Raven’. Can you just imagine Alan Rickman reciting that? Just thinking of it sends shivers of …….. well, (smile) shivers up and down my ……… well, we’ll just quit there. (fans herself).
Honestly, though, Rickman has THE best voice for poetry. I have a cd of various actors reciting Shakespearean sonnets and Rickman is doing one of them. IT is fantastic. As it is written in Poe’s the ‘Bells’, as being the sound that drives men mad. You know: the bells, the bells, the tinntinnabulation of the bells. I, for myself, can say that madness comes with ‘the voice’ ………..the voice ……..Of Mr. Rickman.
04 Nov 2006 at 1:05 pm