Me and You and a dog named Boo

Heading to Fort Greene park to watch the Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest, apparently along with thousands of others.

this look is hauntingly familiar (sing it)

Girls of 2022

Black Bean Diner Burger on Toast with Amy's boxed Mac and Cheese and Tater Tots.

Bob's Burgers

Elvis, leaving the stage

Pooped Pup on top

disheveled Andy Wharhol

Morning Herby Frittata with everything but the kitchen sink

Loca!
The joke was on me when excited to see if any of the over 100 pictures I took came out, I realized I had pressed a button I didn't even know existed on my camera that made most of the shots look concave.  

She did the Mash

Black Bean Turkey Veggie Burgers

These baked bean burgers have a can of drained *mashed up black beans, ground turkey, bread crumbs, one egg, yellow and green peppers, onions, parsley, garlic and lots of cumin, chili powder and black pepper.  425 for about 20 minutes and a slice of cheese to melt on top at the end.  Oven burgers are convenient for lunch box meals because you can make a quantity at once.  

More tooling around the neighborhood for interesting Halloween decorations.  I love people that put in the effort.   If I could paste a 'like' somewhere I would. 

But how do they enter the house?

Not Halloween but Spike Lee's wall at 40 Acres and a Mule production company features a mural of those that have passed and a gorgeous mosaic of Spike under the Wake Up bell.

And a cool Legacy poster

*the best way is to squoosh the beans with your clean hands between your fingers until they turn into a paste.  It's very Halloween-y.

Just As Long As We Have Glee

Sheet pan burgers with roasted cabbage

A walk in the neighborhood revealed a few cool Halloween efforts but the majority were reduced to an uncarved pumpkin on a stairwell this year.  Its a reflection of our waning creative spirits, I believe.  We have weary hearts and rightfully so.  We want to celebrate traditions but the air is feeling a little empty, void of loving nutrients.  Celebrating at this time, feels a bit like we're not reading the room.  This reminds me of being a small kid in the 60's.  Christmas wasn't all Santa Claus and Jesus Christ in our house when drunk uncles came blasting in unable to form sentences, screaming obscenities and proclamations that changed the faces of all the grown ups.  Later seeing the sacred tree juxtaposed with the dank smell of an all-night mumbling drunk sunken in the couch can leave a kid confused.  Similarly, things are not right in the world right now, it's apparent, you can feel it in the air.  You could argue this is always the case, but I think there is enough going on that is not 'okay', that its harder to ignore and go on about our Whoville merrymaking. 

However in the famous Grinch Who Stole Christmas story, that's exactly what the good people of Whoville did.  They still kept the holidays alive by going about their traditional celebrations and praises.  So maybe it is important for us to fight the dark, not by ignoring it but by continuing to acknowledge all the light in the world that still exists. 

Some people know how to bring the Halloween effort