What a lovely Halloween. With no costume party invitations stuffed under our door this year, Jan and I went to Joe’s house last night for a no-stress evening of festivities. We got enirely too much take-out Chinese food, baked some incredible chocolate and peanut butter cookies, listened to some funky jazz, scared ourselves by watching the American version of The Ring, and then chilled out by watching a soulful documentary on the hardest working men in Motown, The Funk Brothers, before we all crashed in the living room. I enjoyed hiding my mobile phone at my side and sneakily calling both Joe and Jan when The Ring ended. It worked.