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For Tonight is Halloween and the Faerie Folk Ride!

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At midnight tonight the Seelie and Unseelie Courts of the Faerie Folk will troop to their winter demesnes. It’s moving day, or night if you prefer! Tonight will be the last wild hunt of the season. So take care, the King of the Unseelie Court, the Fool of the Forth, Amadan na Briona rides to the hunt this night. If you are seen by him and his court you will be lost forever!

And finally:

If we shadows have offended,
 Think but this, and all is mended—
 That you have but slumbered here
 While these visions did appear.
 And this weak and idle theme,
 No more yielding but a dream,
 Gentles, do not reprehend.
 If you pardon, we will mend.
 And, as I am an honest Puck,
 If we have unearnèd luck
 Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,
 We will make amends ere long.
 Else the Puck a liar call.
 So good night unto you all.
 Give me your hands if we be friends,
 And Robin shall restore amends.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1
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  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Honestly, old boy, I have probably been lost forever for so many reasons for so long. I think I will be okay.

  4. 4.

    Duke of Clay

    I’ve placed cold steel at the front and back doors to keep out the wee folk. I’ve also placed a bit of milk on the window sill to win their favor in case they should happen by.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    @Adam L Silverman:
    The Chinese will probably knock out the GPS birds but my latest Garmin also has GLONASS, so we’re good!

    Anybody who has not availed themselves of a Richard Thompson show report to the closest reeducation camp. I however never say Sandy Denny so twenty lashes.

  22. 22.

    Caphilldcne

    My wee callers stopped demanding candy around 9:00 (best costume was a little bald Tupac) and then I got to put together my office budget for next year. I would’ve welcomed the fey taking me away to dance forever and ever.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    Milo came to Cal State Fullerton tonight and gave a sold-out speech to 800 people with the usual protesters/counter protesters outside, eight people arrested, with two rather unusual protesters quoted in the LA Times:

    Bianca Turano, who called herself a conservative, went to the protest with her father to call out right-wing agitators making racist or hateful comments. The pair said they support Trump, but not Yiannopoulos or hate speech.

    “We’re here to confront them about what they’re doing,” Turano, 23, said of right-wing protesters. “They’re really bullies.”

    Her father, John Turano, agreed.

    “We’re here to harass the patriots on my team,” he said.

  33. 33.

    Duane

    I’m watching the garden gnomes next door. I think they’re getting closer to my house. The one with the red hat is their leader.

  37. 37.

    Mary G

    @Major Major Major Major: Prolly a good bit:

    University police were out in force, with extra officers on hand from several agencies. Helicopters hovered over campus while police officers on horseback monitored the crowd.

    It certainly wasn’t well-publicized beforehand.

  38. 38.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: So, should all controversial speakers be required to pay for security, or just the ones we don’t like? What is your dividing line between Milo, who is pretty careful to make sure that he doesn’t explicitly say anything in these speeches that crosses over to unprotected incitement, and, for instance, a controversial Palestinian speaker?

  42. 42.

    jl

    What is the delicate pansy ass Brit stuff from Silverman?
    Go to it, laddy!

    ” Round about the Caldron go:
    In the poysond Entrailes throw
    Toad, that vnder cold stone,
    Dayes and Nights, ha’s thirty one:
    Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
    Boyle thou first i’th’ charmed pot

    All. Double, double, toile and trouble;
    Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble

    Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
    In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
    Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
    Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
    Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
    Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
    For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
    Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble

    All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
    Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble ”

    (No time to read it carefully, but I think they throw some whiskey, neaps and tatties and haggis in the cauldron too)

  44. 44.

    Mike J

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I’d pay for security to prevent the heckler’s veto.

    However, it ain’t the protesters that cause security to be required. His followers have shot or shot at protesters from one side of the country (WA) to the other. (VA), If he’s bringing that kind of trouble in, it’s not worth it to the community to pay for it. Cancel.

  45. 45.

    Major Major Major Major

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: The question is whether the venue (in this case a public university) has/feels it has the obligation to act as a platform for anybody who can afford the facilities fee. If it does take on that obligation (or we as a society decide it has), then charging for security becomes a de facto surcharge on controversial speech.

    The universities obviously see themselves as having this obligation.

    Do cities bill pride parades for the extra police presence they require compared to 4th of July parades? I don’t know, but it would seem weird if they did.

  47. 47.

    Sab

    Adam: speaking as someone from Highland and Island Scottish and also Kerry Ireland ancestry you are a nutcase tonight ( or last night).

  55. 55.

    Blehmann

    Weird thing tonight, my damaged pit bull made a very odd noise. It sounded like it was from upstairs. I ran up, but couldn’t find her. My husband searched the yard. On my second trip upstairs, I heard her huffing. I found her in our tiny closet off the bathroom. She was trapped by the laundry basket. She has never gone into the bathroom on that floor. I think she was pranked by pets of the past.

  57. 57.

    Anne Laurie

    @sm*t cl*de: Nah, I think those photos were just taken at odd angles.

    My semi-educated guess would be that poor Rumplestiltskin’s a chihuahua-miniature pinscher cross. Min-pins are long-legged (often ‘fiddle-legged’, too, though that’s not in the breed standard) and they tend to have a deep ‘dish’ to their profiles:

    Both breeds, of course, tend to be a bit on the high-strung side… and chis, in particular, bond very fiercely to one person. (Thus the thousand-yard stare.) Rumpie looks like he just might’ve inherited some of the flaws from both parents… but then, who among us can’t say the same?

  58. 58.

    some guy

    local fuckwad shot one of my dogs dead tonight. angry, depressed, and figuring out how to exact retribution. fucking fuck, I loved Katie.

  60. 60.

    some guy

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    thanks, man. we don’t even have her body to bury, the fucker shot her when she got into his yard. my wife heard it, and knew. lots of backstory here, this fucker is gonna pay.

  61. 61.

    opiejeanne

    I think the Fair Folk just gave me a fright. I am really freaked out right now. Hallowe’en started off with the cat all freaked out about something, her tail all fluffed out to the max, but she’s a cat and they see things that aren’t there. Yesterday my jacket made her do that when I took it off the chair.
    We’re in a little cabin in the mountains that we’ve owned for 9+ years. It’s not isolated at all. We have neighbors right next to us and we’re on the state highway about 500 yards from town, so this is not that kind of cabin in the woods story.
    I just saw something in the stairwell that I thought was a person at the bottom of the stairs when I flipped on the light at the top. It whisked away quickly, someone wearing white. I yelled that there was someone in the house with us and we both ran down the stairs and looked everywhere but the doors are locked and no one extra is here, and it’s a tiny place with no place for an adult human to hide. It made a noise when it moved off the stairs, like a noise that you would hear if someone was on the stairs.

    There.
    Is.
    No one.
    There.

    I don’t believe in ghosts. I’ve never seen a ghost and no one ever died in this cabin.

    I think I just saw a damned ghost.

    I’m leaving the lights on in most of the cabin tonight. I am not a happy camper right now.

    P.S. The cat has joined us in bed, watching the stairs.

  62. 62.

    Patricia Kayden

    @some guy: One of my dogs used to find a way to get through our fence and I was always afraid that one of our gun owning neighbors would hurt or kill him.

    So sorry for your loss. I don’t get shooting a dog unless it’s threatening your life.

  65. 65.

    Miss Bianca

    @some guy: So sorry to hear this. A dog owner’s nightmare come true. : (

    @opiejeanne: Yup, sounds like you saw a damned ghost, all right. That living/dead veil thing is supposed to be really thin on Halloween.

  67. 67.

    Gemina13

    Last night my housemates held a “dumb supper” for Samhain. My love and I camped in our room to watch scary movies. All in all, a quiet Halloween.

  69. 69.

    opiejeanne

    @Gemina13: we watched Mindhunter. The first two episodes were outstanding and the depiction of Ed Kemper was brilliant and chilling.

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