This place is weird

Or, happy October 31

Happy Halloween! I don’t really care about Halloween. But last week I had to write our thrice-annual Spilled Milk podcast newsletter, which we send out on February 14, July 4, and October 31 to paid subscribers of the show, and this installment would have to at least nod at Halloween. I felt uninspired — until June and I went shopping for Halloween supplies. Then I was VERY inspired. What follows is excerpted from the Spilled Milk newsletter, with a thank you to Co-Host Matthew for agreeing to my sharing it with my beloved paid subscribers here.

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Last week I took my daughter June to Champion Party Supply, or “Seattle’s premier balloon and party destination!” June, age 11, had been begging for weeks to improve our household’s Halloween decorations, which have long consisted of one skeleton’s worth of loose plastic bones (mysteriously sans humeri, tibiae, fibulae, and pelvis). So after school last Wednesday, off to Champion we went.