Grab Bag Friday: Happy Halloween!!

I hope you have lots of fun and sugar waiting for you today!

If you missed last week's post about Trick or Treat for UNICEF, there's still time to make your UNICEF box for tonight's festivities!

The Poop has a funny post about what to do when your child won't put on their Halloween lederhosen. (Some of the comments are more hilarious than the post.)

Seven Impossible Things analyzes Edgar Allen Poe's weaker efforts. (There are more Halloween poems at the Poetry Friday Roundup.)

And this trick-or-treat video cracks me up every time:

Band Aid: Do They Know It's Christmas?

Ah, do you remember this one? How could you forget? But I bet it's been years since you've seen it last (at least it was for me)and it's *worth* watching again just to see the hair-dos! The Poop recently reminded me of this by posting the video, and Peter's comments are hilarious. A small taste:

"I remember when this came out, I couldn't go out and buy the single fast enough. Sting AND Simon Le Bon AND Boy George AND Phil Collins wanted me to do it, which pretty much made it 13-year-old law. How could I say no and keep feathering my hair with a clear conscience?"

Grab Bag Friday: Crappiest Halloween Costume

Over at the San Francisco Chronicle's The Poop, they have been posting hilarious pictures of bizarre halloween costumes. This "crappiest halloween costume" cracked me up because I once went as an outhouse. Yes, my older sister was the house, and I was the outhouse. I thought it was really cool at the time & I got to carry toilet paper around. Sheesh. Other hits from The Poop: snack food costumes for infants, a car air-freshener, and...you *have* to see this...the disturbing (but tasty?) Martha Stewart line (apparently, this is real).

Other memorable costumes (all homemade) that came through our house:

• My sister wanted to be a box of Rice Crispies so we spent all day copying every piece of text from the actual cereal box (nutritional information, ingredients, and all) onto a giant cardboard box.

• My brother went as The Karate Kid and at one point as we were all piling in the car, he got kicked in the head and got a bloody nose. We thought it was the coolest...talk about an authentic costume!

• Or this one...apparently the year we chose to go really PC. You'll see my brother, the Indian, and my younger sisters, the Cowgirl and the Chinagirl (and yes, that is a lampshade on her head). And so of course, I offered to be the Statue of Liberty, leading them all to liberty and light. Good times, good times.
  

How about you? What is your most memorable Halloween costume? Post a comment below and let us know. I *love* these things.


Don't forget to check out all the Robert's Snow features this week (schedule is to the right). Some of the snowflakes this week are *really* beautiful!

Grab Bag Friday: Four Fun Things for Friday

Hooray...it's Friday!!!!

Here are four fun things to enjoy today:

1. Kelly from The Poop (one of the most enjoyable blogs around) wrote a very entertaining post about her child's love for summer camp.

2. Keren Ann's very cool new song "Lay Your Head Down" is available for free as NPR's Song of the Day.

3. Zooglobble posted about a Nodcast Podcast with Smithsonian Folkways children's music greats Ella Jenkins and Elizabeth Mitchell (the podcast is worth listening to and even includes Ella Jenkins showing off some awesome bird calls!)

4. Creature Comforts America (even the missing episodes) is going to be released on DVD! Now if that doesn't make your day a little happier, I don't know what...

Grab Bag Friday: Bathroom Humor

The Poop, a San Francisco parenting blog, was recently mentioned on Zooglobble, so I checked it out.

And found this, which was way too funny not to pass on to you.

If you need a laugh today and have 2.5 minutes to spare, you'll be glad you stopped by.

View Peter Hartlaub's post on The Poop