Happy Halloween, everybody! I broke the trend I described last Halloween (Random Factoid #95) and didn’t dress up as a movie character for my school’s Halloween dress-up day. The costumes are just too expensive; $50 for the Spock costume last year was awfully steep. So I decided to be creative and be a teacher, and it turned out pretty well.
I guess one cinematic Halloween tie-in I could provide today was back in 2nd grade, I won a pumpkin decorating contest for my Grinch-inspired pumpkin. My dad helped me spray paint it green, and then we stuck a Santa hat on it and called it art. (This was just a few weeks before the Jim Carrey movie came out, to put this in a historical context).
But as for pumpkin decorating, I think you all would probably be more interested in this:
Have fun trick or treating – or just answering your doorbell!
Marshall and the Movies 
Good on you, then. Buying costumes is cheating.