3 Bags of Candy, 10 Trick-or-Treaters, and 1 Bad TV Show

So last night was the first Halloween for my wife and I in our house (last year we were in an apartment) and we were suitably excited for the glut of trick-or-treaters we were expecting.  So we bought candy, yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.  The Take Five bars didn't make it through the week (licking my lips at the memory of them) but otherwise we had a very full bowl of candy for the crowds of children that would be passing through.

It didn't occur to me, until the drive home last night, that we don't have a sidewalk on our side of the road, a rather-busy-for-Portland road.  Bummer.  So I worried we wouldn't get any t.o.t.s. and was proven correct, until 7:30, after which they came in a few small crowds.  We ended up with ten total.  Here's the list:

1) A somewhat dowdy princess

2) A tiiiiny little cop who struggled with the 2 front steps

3) An under-achieving pumpkin (just a pumpkin t-shirt--not even a jack-o-lantern)

4) A girl in greenface (zombie?  seasick?)

5) A weaponless ninja

6) A mongol-style barbarian, complete with pointy helmet and beard

7) A princess of a more gypsy persuasion

8) An infant in an MSU hat--is this a costume?  I think he was being pimped by mom for candy

9) A zombie-ape, I think...scary mask, fur, etc.

10) A mystical butterfly, pushing the upper limits of age-appropriateness for trick-or-treating

Presently struggling through another episode of True Blood, from HBO.  Seems like an interesting concept, vampires walk among us following the invention of a synthetic blood that they can drink, preventing their need to feed on humans or animals, and struggle as a minority group for mainstream acceptance, etc.  It just hasn't really worked for me yet--just occasional interest-piquing moments and then a LOT of bad acting.  I don't know if it's the Southern accent that's pulling everyone down, or the weak scripts, but it's rough!  Even William Sanderson, who was superb in Deadwood (perhaps the best television show ever) as E.B. Farnum, the hotel-owner and mayor, is just awful in this.  If you haven't watched it, just stay away, go rent Deadwood instead.