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This year I spent Halloween in Canada with my sister and her kids (my nieces and nephew).  Nothing brings back the memories of your own childhood like going trick or treating with children.  Everyone in my sisters family dressed up.  My sister, my mom, and all the girls were witches…while the boys (father and son) were Spider-man and Venom.  I of course was harry potter again (Stick with what you know).  It was a fun time.

One thing that was weird was that a lot of Christmas decorations were up as well on a few houses.  This really confused me until I realized that Thanksgiving in Canada is in early October so they don’t have any other holidays like the states have to break up the gap between Halloween and Christmas.  Even still…walking around Halloween night seeing Santa on houses made me immediately think of the “Nightmare before Christmas“.

Pictures from my trip are here.

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So it looks like Obama is our new president.  Very Cool.  I of course spent the elections hanging with Matt watching everything on TV.  It was actually fairly entertaining.

Speaking of Matt…his name as been showing up on Gossip Girl lately as the author of the fake “page six” for the NY Post.

NY Magazine ran a small blurb on “who is” Matthew Beebe in their most recent printing (its near the bottom).

“The author of the fake “Page Six” is a person called Matthew Beebe, instead of Richard Johnson. We assumed this was yet another person who worked on the show, but the only person with that name on IMDb is the “wheelchair camper” from Addams Family Values. Minus 1″

I asked Matt about this and evidently he has been helping out the graphic designer for the show a lot on set recently so she has been sneaking his name as the author of the fake paper they use for the show as sort of payback.  Very cool.

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I am finishing up the book Choke.  I love it.  Fantastic book.  So many good lines that make me laugh..yet somehow the book always make me think about life more than I anticipated I would.  Interesting.