Back in college, I was an R.A. Not the dickish, “I’m going to bust your ass” kind. I was there when people needed me, but otherwise, I let them live out their college fantasies. It was art school, after all.
Part of the job was getting everyone out of their rooms and helping them socialize. So I took my lifelong love of Halloween, the natural result of a Midwest childhood and a late-October birthday, added a haunted house, and created Grim Social.
The idea was simple: gather up a bunch of students, throw a party, then head to a haunted house together.
More than 20 years later, I’m somehow still throwing that party. The paper flyers of the early 2000s have become short animated announcements, with a new theme every year. They’re often wildly ambitious to squeeze in around work and family life, but I still look forward to making them every fall.
It’s my longest-running passion project. Enjoy!
