Defend the indefensible - October

Obviously not in Scotland

Though November is usu. worse

it's a yankee thing.

it'll be 20 years since THE GREAT STORM

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i see a screaming face in that tree

ergo October rocks

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My birthday month. Therefore a reminder of aging, futility of life, screaming emptiness of the void.

;≗; < tears of a clown

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Best month of the year

suck it

i love october!

ACTOBER! stay home, watch baseball. simple.

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That's like a scene from a nightmare

i want to go to a harvest festival

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Unfortunately October doesn't look much like that in Glasgow

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Halloween + my birthday + Octoberfest + purty colors = best month ever

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October is one of the best months of the year for me weather-wise. Also, Halloween.

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Halloween is shit in the UK (esp. if you're an adult).

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how so?

x-post

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I mean how can you go wrong with scary movies, candy, costumes, and hand-me-down paganism?

people don't really put the same effort into it here as they do in the US. after a certain age i stopped giving a shit. i don't think i ever went trick or treating tho.

People in England don't, it's always been a big deal in Scotland and Ireland - where do you think the Americans got it from?

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Defend it? It needs no defense!

Though I certainly appreciate the photographic defenses a great deal.

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sigh

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Tom aren't all those pics from July 07?

my nearby park might actually look pretty nice in a few more weeks as the leaves change on the nice range of trees.

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Earlty October isn't bad. It's later in the month when things turn to shit.

Now November, that really is indefensible.

Clocks turning back is the killer, really.

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low blow, gabbneb

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what are these chaps in funny outfits up to?

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That Edinburgh skyline looks lovely.

Ahh, how could I forget the state fair!

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dr m. that wasn't october, was it? that was like july.

what are these chaps in funny outfits up to?

Playing rounders one thinks

(okay never mind I AM AN IDIOT.) Why did i think that was July?

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let's not forget

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cranberry bog looks like italian horror movie

So really we need to change the name of this thread to either Defend the indefensible: Scotland or October in Scotland.

cranberry bog looks like italian horror movie

must write song with this title

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

I still think of October as autumn because my kids calender calls winter from November. Now if you want a month that sucks try January.

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still hawt she hasn't aged a bit

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it's that time of year! you know, halloween.. when you dress your dog like princess leia

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appropos of very little, Carson McCullers was a cutie in some photos, very odd-looking in others, always very striking

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and as she got older the cigarettes took their toll and she began to look more and more like Bette Davis. Which is a point in favor of the cigarettes, I think.

TOTALLY TOTALLY WRONG THREAD

Carson McCullers makes me think of October though!

well, then I'm glad it ended up here. :)

October isnt as gr8 when you:

a) aren't in school anymore

and

b) live in a tropical climate.

:((((

Isn't living in a tropical climate always good?

i miss the seasons a lot.

it's wet season in october,right

kind of.

springtime is the most wet. but there's been a drought here since the devastating rains of march 2006.

but it was really cloudy and rainy the other day though, which felt great.

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october is making me want to smoke and it's not even october
xposts i guess

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i loves me some october.

I'm Oct 5th. It's always a time of change generally.

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October is full of holidays this year!
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Sukkots are so much less exciting than I thought they'd be. I expected frames draped in garlands of braided peppers and fruit and real vines and ears of dried corn and harvest-y stuff. Sadly Wburg at Sukkos is one giant particle-board hovel.

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Clocks turning back is the killer, really.

-- PhilK, Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:42 AM (Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:42 AM) Bookmark Link

November in the U.S., starting this year.

THAT'S what I'm talkin about. Wd eat and sleep in all this sukkot.

Sukkotzim.

i want to go to a harvest festival

korean harvest festival in flushing meadows oct 27-28!

oooh i bet i can get pumpkin porridge at that!

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woori jip, the cafeteria-style place on 32nd near 5th, usually has pumpkin porridge, fyi (but you should still go to the festival).

recap, plz.

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"Yesh, dawg!"

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October might be my favorite month.

Also, the pic that Grady posted last year of the three kids on the porch with the ninja turtle in the middle? Ohmygod how cute is the tiger baby?!

October's up there. I also enjoy December and whichever month is best for spring.

both Dr. Morbius and gabbneb 100% otm in this thread.

I'm looking for a picture of a Halloween contradance on Google images and facebook, but I can't find one...that's something to look forward to, though!

October is always classic. The weather gets nicer and my birthday is at the end.

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Love the October.

Any month where I don't sweat anymore, when the month before there was a chance of sweat, is super extra classic.

October's up there. I also enjoy December and whichever month is best for spring.

May. Because the anticipation of a new season is better than being in the middle of it.

Back in the Great Lake states where I grew up, September was my favorite month.

October is great, this whole time of the year is the best. Leaves turning, putting the heating on, nights drawing in, writing Christmas lists...

October is the best month. the air is sweeter, the days longer. Its warm during the day but still cool enough to sleep well at night

i'd still love it if i lived in the northern hemisphere, because of snoopy halloween specials and ray bradbury

xp
... not feeling guilty about staying in on a weekend...

October is usually a lot of fun, it's a bit on the damp side so far though.

GOD I LOVE OCTOBER SO MUCH!!!

I love orange and red trees I love cold weather and mists and YELLOW FRUITFULNESS and pumkins and burning leaves and everything.

I had a real AUTUMN YES YES YES moment at the weekend, going to the record shop and walking through Dulwich and this corridor of trees that had dropped their leaves and I just had to stop and go back and forth and go SWISH SWISH SWISH through the piles of leaves a couple of times like a little kid, kicking the leaves as high as I could.

(And then noticed that people were watching me and felt really self conscious.)

SWISH SWISH SWISH > people

I also like that October allows me to piss my Sunday away on the sofa without feeling guilty about not being out enjoying the sunshine.

I'm inclined to agree. SWISH SWISH SWISH is one of the best feelings in the entire world. I should have just forgotten about the record shop and gone to the park and gathered up a really big pile of leaves and then JUMPED in them and tossed them all about screaming in delight like a 5 year old going CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH.

We used to have a really big compost heap/leaf pile in the back of the garden where we used to rake up and deposit all the leaves. Sometimes I'd hide in the leafpiles and jump out to surprise my dad.

So once, he picked me up in the blanket we used to transport the leaves and TOSSED ME IN THE GIANT LEAF PILE and it was the BEST THING IN THE WORLD, EVER.

I'm sure this is the kind of thing that modern parents are not allowed to do for fear of charges of child abuse, but at the time it was the MOST AMAZING EXCITINGESS possible.

October is usually my favourite month! All the colours and the cool crispness of the air in the morning and scarves and getting to wear layers again and cold days wrapped in blankets with movies or video games. Also, Thanksgiving in Canada.

It also features a lot of great/interesting historical things. October revolution! Sputniks! FLQ crisis! formation of communist China! remerging of Germany! etc etc

Oh and, swish swish swish = fantastic. Dulwich is great for that. I got some leaves-swishing in on the walk to Denmark Hill the other day. People watched. Self-consciousness ensued. Continued anyway.

October is classic. Cold enough so that I can do stuff during the day without sweating, and I can sleep properly at night. But not so cold that going outside means dressing like an Eskimo.

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best month

October is my favourite month, when the sun shines it is watery and cold and the sky goes the most amazing shades of white come evening time; everything is a silhouette. Music sounds better then too, you should listen to Gram Parsons and drink milk or whiskey, watch old movies, wrap up warm and go walking by yourself, cook big pots of soup and eat pomegranates.

Pomegranates are a pain in the ass to eat, but other than that I'm right there.

October has this, therefore classic:

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You should explain what's good about that.

October is the best month of the year, along with May. At least here in the Northeast United States.

Woolly Bears, Dick Goddard, cider . . . what's not to love?

If ILX had avatars, this would totally be mine right now:

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Is Dick Goddard like the Bob Barker of Clevelend, then? Good for him, if so. Please let's not euthanize anything we don't have to. I don't know what a wooly bear is.

It's about my least favourite kind of weather in London today. Also I'm thirty in three weeks. All bad.

Dick Goddard is a local weatherman -- he's been on the air for probably 40 years, and has been associated with this woolly bear festival for as long as I can remember. He looks like this:

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Woolly bears are the caterpillars that come from tiger moths. They're like the groundhogs of October -- the width of their bands is supposed to tell you how long winter will be:

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The festival gives you delights like a children's costume contest, Fake Abe Lincoln:

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. . . and this:

Hmmmm . . . on reflection, October and Ohio both actually suck.

Last pic should be:

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it is better than september by miles