1. Mark Anderson's Halloween greeting takes the form of a quotation from Moby Dick, the relevance of which escapes me: "The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?" Wider context here.
2. Why Liberals Love Halloween
4. Fake Halloween Tombstones and the Brevity of Life
5. On this date in 2008, MavPhil moved to Typepad which has proven to be a satisfactory blogging platform with an extremely reliable server. It works best with Mozilla Firefox. Traffic is up: on good days 2000 pageviews and up.
6. Zombie Girl: But She's Not There!
7. A Strange Experience in the Charles Doughty Memorial Suite
8. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, I Put a Spell on You
9. Mark Anderson explains #1 supra:
On Halloween I take to class a medical-school skull with a removable skull cap. Inside are various gloomy or semi-gloomy thoughts on slips of paper. Each student takes one, and next time we meet students read them aloud one by one, and when they're done we discuss them. Anyway, I was preparing the skull this morning and thought you might enjoy Melville's thought.
10. October, sadly, ends once again. How fast she flies. But here in the Sonoran desert she is the harbinger of the loveliest time of the year. Happy Halloween, everyone.
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