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Many Schools Are Setting Restrictions on Halloween Costumes

In a school district in Illinois, students are being encouraged to dress up as historical characters or delicious food items rather than vampires or zombies. In Texas, a school has issued suggestions for “positive costumes” for the annual Halloween dance. At Riverside Drive, a Los Angeles public school in the San Fernando Valley, the Halloween parade is being defanged right down to its jagged fingertips.

via www.nytimes.com

Halloween isn't as scary as it used to be, by Jennifer Steinhauer.

Twitter, Outlines, Lists, Directories, Y!ou

Just as in the Matrix the humans had originally created the machines that undermined them, to some large degree, Yahoo began Google. And Yahoo would do well to suggest that the most human way for the web to evolve is if we all work together to organize it ourselves — a mission that happens to fit in well with Yahoo's largely-mishandled acquisitions of Flickr and Delicious. I'm not sure that the marketing folks at Yahoo are going to embrace that narrative, but an interesting opportunity definitely exists around the larger concept.

via dashes.com

Serious About Halloween

Yankees vs. Phillies: The Serious Eats World Series

via newyork.seriouseats.com

"Introducing the Serious Eats World Series, where the food emanating from the City of Brotherly Love is pitted against the quintessential eating experiences of the Big Apple. We'll let Derek Jeter, Jimmy Rollins, Mark Texeira, Ryan Howard, and the newly at peace A-Rod settle the question of baseball superiority on the field. We're going to settle the issue of food superiority on the plate and on the blog." - Ed Levine

Gus Looks like an Ewok

via www.mmmeow.com

Woooord Up!

via www.papermag.com

"Florent Morellet, owner of the now shuttered West Village restaurant Florent, is one of several artists featured in a group show called "The Map as Art" at Christopher Henry Gallery (127 Elizabeth St.). There's an opening reception on November 5th from 6 to 9 p.m"

Halloween in NY - Bleecker Street

via www.scoutingny.com

"I like the broken teacup on the table with the mouse in it…"

Me too!

Loge13 TV - Death Of Shea Stadium

Today I invite you to head over to a clip Loge13 loyalist Bobster made (sorry no embed possible). He has created a wonderful compilation of the deconstruction of Shea Stadium, culminating in the old girl's last moments. If you're depressed now, just wait to watch this!

via www.loge13.com

Random travel notes (Scripting News)

Anil Dash is now on the list too and has 99K followers, and he's a working man, and I'm sure he can be influenced. I unfollowed Anil when he made a joke about how it feels like being on the Yankees. Exactly. That's what I dislike intensely about the Yankees. Their sense of entitlement. Maybe not so much by the players, but by the fans. Twitter is like blogging, it's best when it's just people. The people with millions of unearned followers must be uncomfortable, wondering when the millions are going to catch on

via www.scripting.com

Dave, I know Anil (as you do) and let me tell you he may talk a Yankee game, but he is a Met through and through. And I say that with all my love!

Izenberg: There was no bigger New York baseball story than the 1969 Mets

In all of New York baseball, starting with the day in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright's Knickerbockers and the New York Nine crossed the Hudson to Hoboken to play the first recorded baseball game anywhere, there has never been anything like it ... not the Bobby Thomson home run, a spear aimed at the heart of all that was Brooklyn ... not the perfect World Series game by the Yankees' Don Larsen ... not the World Series catches by Willie Mays and Sandy Amoros and Al Gionfriddo.

via www.nj.com

This is what Mets fans are left with - "remember 1969."