Nobody puts Baby in the corner

I escaped completely unscathed last night, although one of the cars in the close (not mine, thankfully) was covered in flour this morning. Ignored 2 lots of trick-0r-treaters and spooked myself by watching a programme about ghosts on the London Underground (now I could insert a link here but it's totally NSFW even though it is done by doctors, so I won't. Ask nicely and I might point you in its direction. Steve knows what I mean). Anyway, I got sent this random photo which I think is a rather splendid Halloween costume, my best ever one was a triffid when I was about 14, it had a huge head made of chicken wire and crepe paper. I'm all for originality, see, none of these boring old witches and ghosts. The baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells is a good one too, as mentioned by Stuart on yesterday's comments.

The photo is actually quite topical as a friend of mine's sister (who I know too), had a baby this morning. I'm sure they won't be reading but if they are, congratulations, and I'm sure baby Harriet (8lb 1oz) is a lot cuter than the "baby" pictured above, and hopefully with less facial hair.
Going back to spooky coincidences, the exact same photo of the child catcher on yesterday's gubbins was also used on today's Holy Moly main page (warning, contains sweary words), I think for a story concerning Russell Brand, whose stand-up show I am going to see next weekend! So either the people who do Holy Moly also read the daily gubbins and nicked the photo, or Mr Brand's "dinkle" has an all-seeing, all-knowing presence which organised it all from afar. From what I've heard, it's probably the latter which is true...

And also, going back to Baby, I hear the new musical of Dirty Dancing has opened in London to unimpressive reviews, but nobody seems to care about that as it's one of those things that is going to be great however badly it's done. Suspect the audience will be about 99% women getting all nostalgic about the escapism that the film affords. I wouldn't say no to seeing it though!