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* I have an annual checkup today, then a couple of errands to run, so I’ll be back later. In the meantime…

* The Question: Your Halloween plans?

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:29 pm

Comments

Drawing the curtains and switching off the porch light.

Comment by Dome Gnome Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:29 pm
4-2 Astros

Comment by Really? Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:30 pm
Heading to neighborhood watering hole for drinks with friends .

Comment by Annon3 Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:33 pm
A flaming bag at Dome Gnome’s house, then off to my parents’ with the kids, a little trick or treating, getting the kids to bed and firing up Stranger Things. Oh, and eating too much chili.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:34 pm
Beer club — pretty frightening by the end of the evening

Comment by Flapdoodle Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:35 pm
Not being home during trick or treat hours and letting the rest of the family get the door.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:35 pm
not getting signatures!

Comment by ha Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:35 pm
Waiting for Ira’s resignation announcement

Comment by Revolver Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:36 pm
Working on my six pack

Comment by LizPhairTax Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:38 pm
Passing out candy and admiring costumes. I love watching the little ones.

Comment by Aldyth Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:39 pm
Hanging a “because Madigan” sign on the scarecrow on my porch.

Comment by don the legend Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:42 pm
Opening the door for cute little kids in costumes. Love doing it.

Comment by allknowingmasterofracoondom Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:43 pm
Watching “This is Us” - on Tuesdays my wife commands the remote

Comment by We'll See Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:44 pm
Contemplating who will be named next…..

Comment by commprof Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:49 pm
Game 6 and a nice couch.

Comment by Albany Park Patriot Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:50 pm
I’ll be hanging out at pumpkin patch in Kendall County. See, each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He’s gotta pick this one I found outside Oswego. He’s got to. I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than the one I found. You can look around and there’s not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see, so I’ll be waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:51 pm
Handing out candy for the kids and drinks for the adults. Want the address?

Comment by Some Anonymous Dude (S.A.D.) Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:54 pm
Making sure my wife has “door duty” as I will be tied up watching ESPN’s BCS ranking show.

Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:55 pm
Same as Aldyth. But if I wasn’t doing that, I would go by Rich Millers house and drink all his beer.

Comment by The Colossus of Roads Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:55 pm
…keeping watch on Willy…

Comment by Commonsense in Illinois Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:56 pm
Last night, I took my folks to see the record release show for Flat Five’s 7-inch of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’ (Great stuff! Take a listen here: https://theflatfivechicago.bandcamp.com/album/the-raven) It was a costume party — I dressed as a cowboy, my dad didn’t wear a costume, we were indistinguishable.

Tonight, we will give the local urchins gobs of candy to upset their tummies and rot their teeth — like any good neighbor does.

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 12:58 pm
Meeting up with other third grade families to Trick or Treat on the main drag in LeRoy. When the weather is good, it’s rather like the opening scene of ET. Probably also picking up and dropping off seventh graders from neighborhood to neighborhood.

Comment by Rayne of Terror Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:01 pm
I’ll be trick or treating dressed as a petition circulator this year.

Comment by Fax Machine Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:04 pm
Handing out treats. Son #2 went to high school in a homemade costume as a character from the Mad Max universe with lots of steampunk elements.

Comment by 32nd Ward Roscoe Village Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:05 pm
Handing out Candy to the trick or treating kids.

Comment by Saluki Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:09 pm
“Good grief, Oswego Willy…”

/VanPelt

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:11 pm
Passing out candy, then go to bar, then pass out.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:14 pm
I don’t get home from work until well after the trick or treaters have marched up and down Greenview. Someday I’m going to remember to put in for PTO and go watch. I hear it’s quite the sight.

Comment by Cheryl44 Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:22 pm
Stay home and pass out candy with one (or maybe both) of the grandsons

Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:30 pm
Then watch the remainder of the game.

Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:31 pm
Heading to a Pumpkin Patch outside of Oswego to bring Willy a flashlight.

Comment by A guy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:32 pm
Hide in the bushes in my Scary Clown costume while the Mrs in her Bambi costume hands out candy to the kids, Then I make my appearance ! Works every year…. word gets out less kids each year thus I get more candy Muhahahahah

Comment by NorthsideNoMore Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:33 pm
I’ll be hiding from the little hoodlums & hoping your Checkup goes well!

Again, thanks for what and all you do, Rich!

Comment by WhoKnew Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:33 pm
== Handing out candy for the kids and drinks for the adults. ==

That reminded me of one very cold Halloween in a small town walking with my son and a tumbler of CC & 7, getting refills at various houses.

Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:36 pm
Working on a six-pack.

Comment by Beerman Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:41 pm
Going pumpkin caroling…

https://www.retroist.com/2009/10/19/peanuts-pumpkin-carols/

Comment by Anon221 Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:41 pm
Oscar and I were gonna tee pee the house while you’re running errands and then blame it on Owen.

Comment by Barton Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:53 pm
Parking supervision as the local Lions Club hosts a Halloween party in our town. Then thaw and watch the Stros win it.

Comment by Bogey Golfer Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 1:54 pm
Tutoring a 5th grader - if it wasn’t a Tuesday I’d be handing out candy and keeping an eye on the world series.

Comment by lake county democrat Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:01 pm
Trick or treating with grandson…

Then chili, beer, and baseball…

Comment by Loop Lady Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:03 pm
Dont’ get too many trick or treaters, but the g-kids will all be by, so will have to see them, otherwise, probably read and misc.

Comment by downstate commissioner Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:07 pm
==Then chili, beer, and baseball…===

…then late night bubble bath? lol

Comment by A guy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:22 pm
My neighborhood goes all out and is fairly safe so my boys and I are going trick-or-treating as long as we can stand it. I love doing that. They have fun and I get some non-gym exercise (albeit in the cold).

Comment by Curl of the Burl Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:24 pm
Blame Mike Madigan for the continued decline of the number of trick-or-treaters each year, choosing to go out-of-state for better candy opportunities.

Comment by Mittuns Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:28 pm
Relax where it’s warm

Comment by Boone's is Back Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:29 pm
Dress as Rauner and tell the kids at the door they’re degenerate collectivists and hand them copies of Atlas Shrugged.

Comment by IllinoisBoi Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:35 pm
I plan to grade some really scarily bad student papers.

Comment by G'Kar Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:36 pm
BTW, OW for the win.

Comment by G'Kar Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:37 pm
In case you are candy imbibing tonight… The FDA witches you a Happy Halloween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHKr4sqw_A

Comment by Anon221 Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:38 pm
It appears some may come out to check on me… or give me things.

As it’s really important, please, only believers in the Great Pumpkin. I chose this most sincere pumpkin patch in hopes that the Great Pumpkin will rise and deliver gifts to all of us who believe.

Thanks.

- MisterJayEm -

I’m happy you chose that quote and not the one that called me a blockhead. Thanks.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 2:41 pm
Go to Springfield to see if Rep. Ives posts 95 theses on the Statehouse door.

Comment by G'Kar Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:02 pm
My buddies and I are being Halloween Dads.
We light good cigars, take a few shots and pull our little one around from house to house asking for beer. We put the bottles and cans we collect around the littlest kid in the wagon, then when the kids are through, light a big bonfire, and drink the treats.

We love Halloween in my neighborhood.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:04 pm
Who doesn’t like free beer?

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:11 pm
Vanilla Man, you’re heartwarming plan almost makes me want to go back to drinking…..sniff, sniff……how I miss it

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:12 pm
I think the kids get candy too.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:12 pm
You can have cigars, right?

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:13 pm
Our streets close for trick or treating and one of our neighbors gets a beer ball or two to haul in a wagon while we take the young’uns trick or treating. Then it’s back to the house for a big bonfire with friends and the World Series while the kids eat candy and destroy the inside of our house. It’s a tradition and all in Chicago, a finer time couldn’t be had.

Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:26 pm
==I think the kids get candy too.==

Hey VMan, if they do, they do. No one should judge.

Comment by A guy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:36 pm
==As it’s really important, please, only believers in the Great Pumpkin.==

In that case, you better bring your own flashlight.

Comment by A guy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:37 pm
===In that case, you better bring your own flashlight. ===

So, you aren’t you going to come and greet the Great Pumpkin? Huh? It won’t be long. If the Great Pumpkin comes, I’ll still put in a good word for you… Good grief… I said “if”… meant, “when” he comes…

Yikes, now I’m doomed. One little slip like that could cause the Great Pumpkin to pass me by.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:43 pm
We don’t get trick-or-treaters at my building. In any case, I won’t be there as I’m going to a class for which we read, appropriately, Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray.

Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:48 pm
Cigars, Si, Si! Arturo Fuentes 858 If I lose this vice, I’ll be on the rim of the abyss….wondering, wondering….

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:50 pm
==I’ll still put in a good word for you==

I sure how he comes now.

Comment by A guy Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:52 pm
We have handed out king-size Snickers for 20 years. Always over a 100 every Halloween.

Comment by OldIllini Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:58 pm
Not in the mood this year.

Lights out, Game 6, on the couch with the dog.

Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 3:59 pm
The Bud Light is like getting a Tootsie Roll, and the real beer is like getting full size candy bars.But we don’t turn anything down. It would be unneighborly and teach the little ones bad manners.
We’ve gotten great booze and some really great smokes. The guys at home seem to get a real kick out of giving us some of their favorite brews.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 4:07 pm
My costume was college football fan in the stands, with very warm hoodie and stadium blanket and pass out candy…I have German Wirehaired Pointers…who masquerade as the Hounds of Hell when anyone comes to the door…so I sit outside to pass out candy.

Comment by union thug gramma Tuesday, Oct 31, 17 @ 11:48 pm