Tag: jack-o-lantern
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The Twelve Days of Halloween 2014: Day 1 and Counting
At Christmas, our true loves give us stuff every day–gold rings, leaping lords and dancing ladies, drummers drumming. Putting aside for just one moment the obvious question–how can we afford to feed and clothe all those artistic vassals?–I can’t help wondering why you just get stuff one day for Halloween, and if you’re a grown-up…
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The 12 Days of Halloween 1: Jack
So, it’s vital to my family’s well-being to carve a Jack-O-Lantern every year, but none of them have time to help. Three years in a row I’ve sat at the table, elbow deep in pumpkin goop, with a very sharp knife and a very bad attitude, while the women I live with float in and…