Hallowe'en Fun

[przed]

Popping my head up for this year's Hallowe'en festivities.

Ros wanted to carve our two pumpkins herself. She kept one a secret. It turned out to be a Cap shield pumpkin she carved just for her mom. Awwwww.


Ros' costume this year was a Greek goddess. When pressed on which Greek goddess, she finally decided she was Athena. Here she is between the Cap pumpkin and one of our Chinese lions. Ros puts the masks on our lions every Hallowe'en.


And here's the skull pumpkin Ros carved. She's getting pretty good at this pumpkin carving lark.



It's been a bit of a Marvel week in the Zed household. I talked the Sweetie into watching the first Cap with me this weekend. (He's a hardcore Marvel comics fan, but only lukewarm on the movies.) This led to this exchange.

Sweetie: Hey, that's Dum Dum Dugan. I recognize the hat. He's a Howling Commando.
Me: Yeah, all the Howling Commandos are in it. Falsworth, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita.
Sweetie: Wait, you know the names of the Howling Commandos?
Me: Of course. They're important in the whole Cap mythos.
Sweetie: Oh my god, I can't believe you know the names of the Howling Commandos.
Me: Heh.

All that reading a shedload of Stucky fic is paying off if I can match his Marvel geekiness. *g*

Friday, we're going to see the first show of Doctor Strange. (I'm taking the day off. The Sweetie is on his last week off before starting a new job.) This should be interesting. The Sweetie is a huge Strange fan, but can't stand Benedict Cumberbatch. I really want to see it with him because I suspect his head might explode. That, or he'll finally admit Cumberbatch is a good actor. *g*

Comments

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ignoring Marvel movies is a sane life choice. Forget the movies and TV shows themselves, there is a ridiculous amount of fanfic out there, and a decent amount of it is really good.

I shall pass on the congratulations. \o/

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've read some of the fic and of course I know some of the background because one can't help knowing, living on the internet...

Off topic but still re reading, a friend gave me Martin Roach's 'TAKE THAT now and then' (because she had two copies) but I haven't opened it - is it any good?

[przed.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that TT book. I've got Take That - Take One and Take Two, Gary's autobiography, and Robbie's Feel, and Take That In Private, all excellent. (Take One, Two and In Private read like fanfic, straight from the boys' mouths.) And Take That's Greatest Hits, which is interviews surrounding their original singles with some great 90's pictures. I've also got a couple of the interview books Piers Morgan put together back in the day, and they're a mish mash of the truth and the tissue of lies that their manager surrounded them with. I rather gave up on the books after that.

The GoodReads reviews on that one seem to indicate it uses a lot of old interviews as sources and is decent if not exemplary. You'll have to let me know how it is.