And he has shaped it as a babe that is to nurse and he has made two eyes of glass

[sovay]

Our neighbors are decorating for Halloween. This means giant inflatable ghosts, mummies, pumpkins, green-faced witches, vampire Winnie-the-Poohs, snowglobes full of mylar bats, et cetera, several of which glow at night and all of which are tasteless to the nth—yards full of this stuff, it's unbelievable. It makes me want to put up Halloween decorations of my own. Cornhusks, dog skulls, knots of old ribbon, branches of turning leaves. You know. Normal things.

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[thomasfreund.livejournal.com]

The recent rash of inflatable decorations at any holiday is very disturbing. Though I'm quite fond of them when they spontaneously deflate and you see lights shining on what used to be an 8-foot tall Frosty the Snowman.

There's a place in Waltham that has committed this offense for several years now. The neighbors here have small children and consequently go a little overboard for several holidays, but at least their Halloween decorations last year were little bats and things hanging from the tree and a little graveyard with grey-foam headstones. However, they did use a fogger during Trick or Treat which we actually asked them to turn OFF because it was literally obscuring sight all the way to the corner and there's quite a bit of traffic there.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

There are houses near me that have platoons of those things--and in the daytime they turn them off, so there are these piles of deflated balloons, like so many melted witches of the west. It's creepy and amusing.

[sovay]

Though I'm quite fond of them when they spontaneously deflate and you see lights shining on what used to be an 8-foot tall Frosty the Snowman.

Okay, that's awesome.

However, they did use a fogger during Trick or Treat which we actually asked them to turn OFF because it was literally obscuring sight all the way to the corner and there's quite a bit of traffic there.

. . . Wow. At least we've never had that.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Though I'm quite fond of them when they spontaneously deflate and you see lights shining on what used to be an 8-foot tall Frosty the Snowman.

That can be fun. There was a Frosty outside of the Playwright Pub in Hamden, CT (1) last year which, slightly deflated, listed for a couple of weeks before its removal as if it were rather drunk.

(1) Not the restaurant downtown in New Haven, but the pub on Whitney Avenue. Did you ever go there, sovay? It's probably my second favourite pub in CT, after the Liffey.