You may know that I’m a summer lover, but when October rolls around, even I am ready to lay down my sandals and tank tops and give in to fall. I can only do this because October is spooky season, and spooky season is like a kind (skeleton) hand that holds my hand and says “there there, I know you’d still rather be sitting by a pool in perfect 80-degree weather, but look at all the candy and costumes and different versions of Tim Curry we have over here?”
Read MoreIt's coming. The drugstores are stocked with orange candy, the movie theaters are full of slashers, and my brain is filled with the annual October anxiety: what will I be for Halloween??
Read MoreGiven that it's almost Halloween, I think it's time I talk about scary movies. I didn't watch many classic horror movies as a kid for a couple of reasons: 1) My parents took the R-rating to heart, meaning that I shouldn't watch it if I was under seventeen, and 2) I'm a crybaby. Really, I get SO SCARED. Now that I'm a grown-up though, I realize that it's part of the fun — especially if you have the chance to watch a scary movie in the movie theater with other people who are SO SCARED and then you can all yell together.
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