Halloween 2010

Here's Shaw at the church Halloween party this evening. He's dressed as Dr. Peter Venkman- the Ghostbuster.

His outfit also included a ghostbusting backpack. (Just remember that when ghostbusting, you shouldn't cross the proton streams)
We have been dissatisfied with the profanity and general crudeness of television and movies in recent years but couldn't monitor or censor everything. We just avoided obvious media choices that we thought would be unacceptable. When an instance of profanity came up unexpectedly one of us or all of us would shout "BAD WORD!" As we became conscious of the language by calling it out every time, we got to a point that we couldn't abide having cable TV in our house anymore. We were paying hard-earned money to have that stuff in our house! No longer.

Now that Shaw is 9 we thought he might be old enough to be introduced to one of the classics- Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd in "Ghostbusters". We found the DVD in a $5 bargain bin and found ourselves shouting "BAD WORD" over and over... again. I had forgotten how many instances of profanity were in that one.

Nonetheless, Shaw was equally frightened but enthralled with the movie and has become a fan.