Wednesday, October 28, 2009  Not Feeling Halloween  The peeps on
Hillcrest Ave here in Da Ville are once again living up to an
over twenty year tradition and going all out to outdo their
neighbors and spooktacularly decorate their houses for
Halloween.  They are expecting more than the 20,000 kids they
had last year traipsing up and down the street between Frankfort
Ave. and Brownsboro Rd.  Since it falls on a Saturday this year,
the goblins and ghouls get an extra hour of sleep since Daylight
Savings Time ends this weekend.  It's also considered by some
people the Transgender National Holiday, but I'm definitely not
feeling the festive spirit of it at the moment.  Probably some
of what I'm feeling is related to my childhood in H-town, the
cloudy weather we're having today in Da Ville and thinking about
the 1974 Ronald Clark O'Bryan case.  Because his business was
failing, O'Bryan took out large insurance policies on his
children one month before the date. On Halloween night he gave
his kids and in order to c