baby
Friday was Veterans' Day, but in these pages we have yet to catch up with the holiday from almost a fortnight ago: Halloween.
I kept good statistics this year, and the number one costume at my door, far and away, was Scream. Not the scream pictured here–I don't know who this baby is, just some poor child out alone on the web–but the vampire sort of monster Screams, with identical masks that must have been a really good bargain at Dollar General on 23rd Street. Six Screams got candified here on Kater Street.
As for the non-Screams, we noted:
- 2 unicorns
- 2 generic vampires
- 2 zombies
- batgirl
- Super Girl
- a soccer player
- Hermione
- Wonder Woman
- Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt
- a jester
- "a guy from a TV show I like"
- "a skateboarder who had a wipeout"
- a baby
- a bumble bee
- a vampire
- a ladybug
- Hello Kitty
- a nurse
- a construction worker
- a boxer
- a ninja
- undecided
- a princess
- a monster
"Some time in the 1950s, probably in Decatur, Illinois." That's the baby boomer, stomping away.
The babe in arms in this picture, Gregory Stein, recently started his freshman year in engineering school at Cornell. His parents are Miriam and Eugene Stein; Eugene is Norman's first cousin.
The urchin in front here is Joe, baby Gregory's second cousin. Joe is currently a music student at the University of Alabama.
