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Apparently Jimmy Kimmel has a seasonal Halloween prank encouraging parents to film telling their kids they ate all their candy. (Uh, does he even have kids?) But this year Kimmel's prank unexpectedly turned the table "on mean." Meet, Madeline, who could teach us a thing or two about compassion, kindness and just plain moving on when something goes wrong. I'm so in love with this child's reaction. While I don't endorse pranking kids (ever) it's clear this mom's done something very right to raise such a sweet child. Watch:

If you've been following my blog over time you will see that I've hit something of a wall with my divergent blog themes:  No doubt I am in full-on blogging identity crisis. I promise you there's a good reason this which I will certainly explain in the future. Until then, let me state that my entire blogging narrative, it's entire trajectory until now has simply been to write about what I find interesting, or important at that particular moment in time.  Well, lately my world has been suddenly flipped back into a world I'd thought I'd left behind a long time ago:  The world of fashion. Also, in tribute to all things Gorey I am headed up to Los Angeles today to catch the VERY LAST weeked of the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA .  (YES, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET -- THIS IS IT!) And so given that my world lately has been all about style and fashion and that I always have loved Edward Gorey reblogging this great post seemed like a great choice. Enjoy

A little tribute to "Halloween," the way I like to remember it:   Halloween:  Hot cider.  Homemade costumes.  Little old ladies offering fresh, juicy Vermont caramel apples and homemade popcorn balls at the front door. Just some retro, random kids I might have grown up with. Days when all things "scary" were limited to ghosts and goblins, and not bloody, plastic props that look like they fell out of the evening news. This is saying a lot, actually, since I grew up in the Vietnam War era.  Every night the evening news brought to our living rooms relentlessly graphic footage of the war as well the violent protests against it going on here at home.   "Halloween," had not figured out how to market our fears back as well as they do today.   I suppose for some reason they felt it would be in bad taste to show bloody body parts in our front yards with a war going on.  Imagine that?   In any case, thank God that "back in the olden days&