Entertainer

I love Halloween. When I was a restless little punk, there was nothing I enjoyed more than scattering ketchup-spattered pillows, bedsheets and old clothes across my parents’ front porch in a diorama of terror. Sometimes I’d hide under a pile of propped-up laundry on our doorstep, waiting in still anticipation under a masked basketball “head.” [...]

Every Saturday I pour new melodies into my iPod (this week’s bouillabaisse: the complete works of Todd Barry and Deceased’s classic “Fearless Undead Machines” — for the upcoming holiday, natch) and go for a leisurely tour of Heritage Mall. It’s usually around 5 p.m.; the craziness has abated and the employees are entering the cool-down [...]