"Only You" vs. Flirting with Clowns
So it annoys the [ expletive ] out of me when I pull one of my typical shenanigans, which of course was not a shenanigan when I did it but just a fact of nature, and someone says (inevitably): "Only you, Deb..." and laughs. ...because No. It's not only me. There are other people in the world who are willing to go outside the box, to eclipse convention, to take the risk. Dare to follow possibility. We do that; it's not only me. But then... Every year I go with my friend Liz to Markoff's Haunted Forest . Please disavow any other scary thing you've been visiting in the DMV ; this is what you wanted all along. My favorite bits are the pirate ship, the Viking encampment, the dragon graveyard and the hardcore bus (it's like being in a Mad Max movie.) I love the giant Krampus, which this year was wearing the LED counter telling you when it's your turn to enter the forest. I hope I'm not giving away too much here. The sets are really ama...