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Author Topic: Happy Halloween and Happy Birthday to me! James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 10-31-2014 09:55 PM                     Happy Birthday, Paul.  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-31-2015 09:13 PM                        it is not only HALLOWEEN it is also MY Birthday! (again!)  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 10-31-2015 09:15 PM                     YAY HALLOWEEN! And your day of birth!  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 10-31-2016 07:42 PM                 It has been 365 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-31-2016 07:42 PM                        It is not only HALLOWEEN it is also MY Birthday!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-31-2016 09:27 PM                        Do you have this post on auto repeat?! Happy birthday once again... Most of SoCal seems to have taken the day off, presumably because of Halloween. Leaving my son's daycare place at 9.15 this morning after dropping him off, the 67-mile commute from Loma Linda to Hollywood took me only 71 minutes. That is close to my all time record (68 minutes, in the other direction, leaving at about 2.30am on a Sunday morning after a triple bill show that ended insanely late), and the traffic density on both the 10 and 101 freeways was what it usually looks like in the middle of the night. Mid-morning on a weekday, it is rare to do the trip in much under two hours, and usually Waze tells me to avoid that route (the shortest of several options in terms of distance, but very rarely in terms of time) altogether, because the East LA Interchange is almost always totally snarled up.  |  IP: Logged Peter Foyster Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: ROLEYSTONE WESTERN AUSTRALIA Registered: Aug 2016 posted 11-01-2016 12:36 AM                     I notice that Bob Maar(who never stands still except here) asked Paul where his picture was.... 14 years ago. There is still no picture. I guess I shouldn't complain as it's only been 3 months since I sent mine in. Speaking of pictures, isn't it time some of the Film-Tech veterans updated their photos? Or do they not age, unlike the rest of us? I have no comment on Halloween, which was introduced into Australia a few years ago, although the country got along just fine without it until then. (or did it??)  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-01-2016 05:02 PM                        quote: Peter Foyster I have no comment on Halloween, which was introduced into Australia a few years ago, although the country got along just fine without it until then. (or did it??) I grew up in England in the '70s and '80s, where Halloween existed, but was nothing like the major event it is here. Channel Four might play a Universal horror, but that was about it. Aisles full of Halloween crap in the supermarkets, trick or treating and large-scale fancy dress parties simply didn't happen. I suspect that part of the reason (beyond Halloween simply being not such a big part of British popular culture) why may have been that Guy Fawkes Night happened only a week later, and was a big national celebration, with almost everyone either holding or going to a bonfire/fireworks party.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-01-2016 09:57 PM                        Halloween is a huge merchandising holiday in the U.S., although of the non-Christmas holidays it's not the biggest - Mother's Day and Valentine's Day take top honors. But, since in recent years it's become just as much for adults as for kids (maybe even more-so, given the elaborateness of adult costumes and parties) it's a big deal. I would say that Halloween is my least favorite "holiday." I don't like the music, the costumes, the horror movies, or any of it. I don't like the orange lights. I do like the candy - although even that is pretty awful sometimes. Having said that...happy birthday, Paul! As far as major American holidays go, the 4th of July is the best. Good weather, beer, fireworks. What could be better? Also, no food pressure (you don't have to serve up a fancy meal...burgers and dogs are fine). Thanksgiving is my second favorite because there is no gift shopping, stupid costumes or silly decorating involved....but Mom can be a nervous wreck due to the meal, and the whole thing can be destroyed by snow in this neck of the woods...so the 4th takes top honors in my book.  |  IP: Logged Peter Foyster Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: ROLEYSTONE WESTERN AUSTRALIA Registered: Aug 2016 posted 11-02-2016 12:45 AM                     You have a good point there, Leo. I remember Guy Fawkes night (or just Bonfire night) as a kid. Man, the mayhem we could cause with a fourpenny bomb! It was only a matter of time before it was banned and one could not buy crackers any more. I know it was still going in New Zealand in 1998 when I arrived in Wellington on the 5th November. I thought they were welcoming me to their country! Oh and look....my ugly mug is now up.Thanks, Brad.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-02-2016 01:32 PM                        quote: Peter Foyster Speaking of pictures, isn't it time some of the Film-Tech veterans updated their photos? Or do they not age, unlike the rest of us? My pic is about 12 years old but I think still look about the same. Probably due for an update though.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-02-2016 03:12 PM                        quote: Peter Foyster It was only a matter of time before it was banned and one could not buy crackers any more. Without wanting to veer this conversation into off-limits territory, I'm a bit surprised that there has been no attempt to ban Guy Fawkes Night on the grounds of inciting religious hatred, given what he was trying to do when they caught him (and that it's catching him before he did it that is supposedly being celebrated). As far as fireworks go, when I was growing up, GFN (and the weekends either side of it, if it fell on a weekday) was the only time during the year when you could buy or see any. What really changed that was New Year's Eve 1999-2000, when lots of firework displays were held and the supermarkets sold them. From that point on, they were easily available all year round (plus the emergence of online sales probably made them easier to get hold of at other times of the year, too), and by the time I left Britain (in 2013), you could see them being let off on most weekend evenings.  |  IP: Logged

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