Thursday October 31, 2013  Halloween.  People in costume.  And people wearing clothes which a few decades ago would have been classed as costumes, but are now unremarkable.

***The Minnesota Daily had an interview with an exorcist.  He attributes his relatively few failures to those patients not wanting to give up their connections to Satan.

("How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?"  "Only one; but the lightbulb has to want to change.")

Thoughts:  Perhaps there are specialists who serve those who want to be demon-possessed, and can't manage it on their own.

And perhaps others who help people possessed by angels who want to be freed.

***To the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  The two people leading the meeting had keys to the church.  However, the keys didn't work.

I returned home.

***From Publishers Lunch listing of books bought:  "Michael Grant's YA trilogy that re-imagines the second World War in an alternate world where young women are drafted along with men...."

And:  "THE STOLEN CHILD author Keith Donohue's THE INSIDE BOY, set in coastal Maine about a young boy, deathly afraid of the outdoors, whose drawings of monsters begin to cross the line between fantasy and reality; Simon Unsworth's THE SORROWFUL, set in Hell, pitched as 'The Wire meets Clive Barker...."

***From Twitter:

 Erin M ‏@tad_overdue Why was the vampire nervous about the library board meeting? Too many stake-holders! #halloweenlibrarypuns #sorrypunhaters
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The Daily Beast ‏@thedailybeast The forgotten reign of England's lesbian queen http://thebea.st/19gj2Hw