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Bobble Tiki loves all holidays - or most of them anyway. Bobble Tiki loves Christmas because he loves getting presents. Bobble Tiki loves Thanksgiving because he loves stuffing his face. And Bobble Tiki loves Halloween because he loves dressing up like a damn fool.
While Halloween falls on a Monday this year, and that may be enough to curb some people's enthusiasm on the 31st, not Bobble Tiki.
Bobble Tiki's a gamer. He gives 110 percent every holiday, whether it's convenient or not. Sure, it'd be a lot easier if Halloween was on a Friday or Saturday, and you could get all liquored up without worrying about work in the morning, but it didn't work out like that.
Halloween's on Monday this year. Pros will deal with it. It can either ruin things for you or inspire you to lift your Halloween game to a whole new level.
Bobble Tiki's inspired. He wants it more. He's celebrating all things scary everyday until Oct. 31 - the cheap way.
MONDAY, OCT. 24: The Tacoma Cult Movie Club presents another free night of movies and popcorn from 7-10 p.m. inside the Acme Grub Cage. Monday's theme is cocked and loaded with flicks involving "Girls With Gun." Scary. Weekly Volcano scribe Rev. Adam McKinney has the inside scoop on the TCMC here.
TUESDAY, OCT. 25: "Each year the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere," Linus explains to Sally as they wait together on Halloween night in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. "He's got to pick this one - he's got to! I don't see how a pumpkin patch could be more sincere than this one," Linus continues. In the end, though, the Great Pumpkin chooses not to grace the Peanuts' pumpkin patch, and a disappointed Linus is forced to wait another year while an irate Sally laments her lost "tricks or treats." Alas, the stench of Lucy's hypocrisy must have been too strong. Let that be a lesson to any of you hipsters out there thinking of dropping by the W.W. Seymour Conservatory to partake in Pumpkin Patch Photos: Come correct or don't come at all. Bobble Tiki doesn't need any snickering from pumpkin haters ruining his chances of seeing the Great Pumpkin. True believers are invited to bring the family and greet the fall with a search for the perfect jack-o'-lantern in the park's fecund pumpkin patch. Snap photos of your young and old ghouls and goblins - a little pumpkin patch will be set up from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday through Oct. 30. Admission is by donations.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26: Bobble Tiki's shack lies within the city limits of Tacoma and, therefore, Bobble Tiki can join the other Tacoma residents at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's Tacoma Resident Free Day Wednesday. In keeping with this week's Freeloaders theme, Bobble Tiki will concentrate his zoo visit on the scarier creatures such as the raven, blind cave fish, bats, owls and the 16-foot-long Burmese python.
THURSDAY, OCT. 27: Grave Concerns Association member and author Kris Anderson Reisinger reads from her book, Cemeteries of Tacoma, at 7 p.m. inside King's Books. The really spooky part, Reisinger will share personal stories of invisible companions in the graveyard. Yikes!
FRIDAY, OCT. 28: (This Event Has Been Moved To Monday, Oct. 31) MONDAY, OCT. 31 - While Halloween typically represents candy, haunted houses and costume parties, the Castle Megastore in Tacoma hasn't forgotten Bobble Tiki's favorite reason: an excuse for girls to dress like sluts. The warehouse-sized building is loaded with whips, stripper heels, handcuffs and lingerie - you name it. Bobble Tiki has the perfect spot for the ladies in lingerie. E & J Bar and Grill in Lakewood hosts a '90s "Holloween" House Party Friday at 9 p.m., concentrating on its typical hip-hop and R&B tunes. Those in their "pajamas" will receive free entry. Those not will have to pony up $5.
SATURDAY, OCT. 29: Video games have seeped out of Bobble Tiki's computer and become enmeshed in his life. Apparently, video games have also penetrated Halloween. Dorky's Arcade will host a Halloween Show Saturday night featuring the pulsating dance beats and synths meet jagged, buzzsaw guitars and ass-shaking bass lines of Tacoma dance-pink trio Death By Stars. The 8 p.m. free show also includes bands The Hyper-space Sludge Junkies, The Autonomics and the Dirty Words. Throw on your 8-bit punk costumes and party it up at the downtown Tacoma arcade. This show is for those 21 and older.
SUNDAY, OCT. 30: Tacoma Art Museum has partnered with Centro Latino and Proyecto MoLÉ once again to celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) culminating with a free community festival Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Now in its seventh year, the free festival will feature music, live performances, food and several hands-on art-making activities.