As they both prepared to attend this evening's festive Costume Ball, ABig, Beautiful Woman Named Mary-Lou looked on with a mixture of boredom and pity at the flailing gestures of her best friend, Peggy-Lee, as Mary-Lou couldn't decide which concept she found more saddening:

A) Some people are unable to free themselves in a positive or uplifting way from the humdrum and everyday of this life without first donning a MASK...

or B) Halloween only comes but once a year.

Well, for what it's worth, I hope all of you happy havoc-wreakers had a safe return from Halloween, 2013...

However, THIS illustrator opted to stay home, whiling away the hours watching films running a full gamut as varied as  "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou" to "Rashomon" that night...and (in all likelihood) every other All hollow's eve thereafter, far into the foreseeable future...