A week after nearly upsetting the Indianapolis Colts’ bid for a perfect season, the Current England Patriots travelled to New Orleans and lost to the 11 – 0 Saints, 38 – 17. Saints quarterback, Drew Brees threw 5 touchdown passes to 5 different New Orleans receivers. Only Peyton Manning and his brother Eli had ever thrown more than 3 versus a Bill Bellichek coached NFL team. The win puts New Orleans on the brink of it’s first division title in 3 seasons.

The Saints flew out through the field on the first play from scrimmage. Brees found wide receiver, Marques Colston down field for 33 yards. It lead to a John Carney 30 yard field goal that doinked off the left upright and through the goal posts. He missed his other attempt from 37 yards in the 4th quarter when Unusual Orleans was ahead by 21 points. Read the rest of this entry

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Have you ever gone to a Sci-Fi convention? You’ll survey lots of regular people but you’ll also see an abundance of people, grown-ups dressed as their common TV character. There are the Xena’s and the Spocks, the Scully and Mulder teams and any number of nameless Klingons. Now you just know that this obsession didn’t develop over night. No sir, these people started out their lives as kids who kept their Halloween costumes long after the candy was gone. If they kept them after they grew out of them, these fanciers of the fancy dress are probably sitting on hundreds of dollars worth of polyester and plastic.

The costume phenomena really took off in the mid-sixties with two companies monopolizing the licensed Halloween costume market. Collegeville and Ben Cooper were both manufacturers of those polyester jumpsuits with the plastic face masks. You remember them, don’t you? The suits were made out of a stiff, scratchy material that had a slit up the back and a tie at the neck to hold it on. If you were lucky enough to live in a warm climate you got to wear yours as it was intended with nothing but underwear underneath. But if you grew up in a cold place like I did, you wore yours with pants and a turtleneck underneath and probably a sweater over top totally ruining the cool ‘I’m Samantha from Bewitched‘ feel of the ensemble. The face masks were designed for kids with really huge faces. Eyeholes were often cut in odd spots to make the face ogle bigger than the wearer and they were held in place, sort of, by those elastic strings that were never tight enough. To complete the picture, think about all the time you trekked all over your neighborhood, determined to wear the mask all the way even though you couldn’t peer. The curved plastic would bear with your warm breath and only the strongest of spirit could make it more than ten minutes before coming up for air. Read the rest of this entry

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“And, explore, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot….

She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: …now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Come, let us engage our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with love. Read the rest of this entry

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Have you ever gone to a Sci-Fi convention? You’ll see lots of regular people but you’ll also watch an abundance of people, grown-ups dressed as their favorite TV character. There are the Xena’s and the Spocks, the Scully and Mulder teams and any number of nameless Klingons. Now you just know that this obsession didn’t develop over night. No sir, these people started out their lives as kids who kept their Halloween costumes long after the candy was gone. If they kept them after they grew out of them, these fanciers of the esteem dress are probably sitting on hundreds of dollars worth of polyester and plastic.

The costume phenomena really took off in the mid-sixties with two companies monopolizing the licensed Halloween costume market. Collegeville and Ben Cooper were both manufacturers of those polyester jumpsuits with the plastic face masks. You remember them, don’t you? The suits were made out of a stiff, scratchy material that had a slit up the benefit and a tie at the neck to hold it on. If you were lucky enough to live in a warm climate you got to wear yours as it was intended with nothing but underwear underneath. But if you grew up in a cold place like I did, you wore yours with pants and a turtleneck underneath and probably a sweater over top totally ruining the cool ‘I’m Samantha from Bewitched‘ feel of the ensemble. The face masks were designed for kids with really big faces. Eyeholes were often nick in weird spots to make the face look bigger than the wearer and they were held in state, sort of, by those elastic strings that were never tight enough. To complete the picture, think about all the time you trekked all over your neighborhood, determined to wear the mask all the way even though you couldn’t see. The curved plastic would fill with your warm breath and only the strongest of spirit could make it more than ten minutes before coming up for air. Read the rest of this entry

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